clank

It’s already quite hot inside my shoebox apartment as the radiators clank away, drowning out my upstairs neighbor’s heavy footsteps with their cacophonous symphony.

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2026

The clank of this supposed breakthrough idea is as inelegant as the meandering storytelling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

"It feels like a prison," he says as the gates clank shut behind him.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025

Rumble, wheeze, groan, roar, whoosh, clank, thud, creak and repeat — this, for me, is the onset of bus reverie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2024

There’s a clank as Pollux slams a cover over the pipe and locks it in place.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

It could be a ball that clanks off the roof and into play instead of flying into the stands for a home run.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Mr. Rasmussen makes Douglass’s conversion vivid and persuasive; Mr. Rebeiro exposes its jurisprudential machinery with impressive precision, even when that machinery clanks a little.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

The barge also retains fixtures from Panto’s days: Patinated rigging blocks hang from the ceiling; a century-old bell clanks when the barge jerks.

From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2023

Then suddenly, his jump shot clanks off the rim, and a teenager crashes the scene.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2022

Then a series of odd sounds came up from the ground beneath our feet: metallic clanks, voices, and a noise like water flushing.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

“If they clanked, which a lot of them did.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

But as silky smooth as the sequence looked — and as strange as a slump from Watkins seemed — the step-back clanked away.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2025

“John Cage would like this,” she said, gesturing at us with the ever-present two cigarettes in her hand, as forks clanked on plates.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024

He smiled as another shell clanked into the dumpster.

From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2023

She clanked her chains against her saddle and flicked her eyes to Chaol.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

We watched him operate a vintage letterpress, the mechanisms whirring and clanking like a steam engine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

Coronado climbed a ladder up the pueblo walls in his clanking armor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

The sound of clanking leg shackles could be heard moments before Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro walked into the door of a New York City courtroom for the first time.

From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026

It’s not yet 11 a.m., but punk music blasts from the speakers, punctuated by the rumbling and clanking of skateboard wheels on concrete.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025

Some of the floor bosses had started using adding machines, clanking things crowded with stiff brass buttons and spools of paper, but Kaz did the Crow Club tallies in his head.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo