clank

Example Sentences

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The prison through which he is escorted is a maze of many gates, rusted metal barriers to movement that echo, with every thud and clank, the stymied processes of Soviet justice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

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

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

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2025

Inspired by the raw, noisy clank of Jeru the Damaja’s 1993 East Coast hit “Come Clean,” “Cell Therapy” was built on a swirl of dub-inflected noise and an icy piano riff.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2024

The satisfying clank of the bars dropping back into their hooks when I was done.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely