clack

Example Sentences

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Imagine “the incessant clack of cowboy boots against the cobblestones” that could have been, he thinks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

I will read each new directive from my political leadership and clack away at my keyboard to implement it as best as I can.

From Slate • Feb. 7, 2025

The monkeys might clack the stones together in their hands, for instance, or pick them up and drop them over and over again.

From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2022

As she sat in her cell she listened for the "clack clack clack" of the metal tips of the guard's boots as he patrolled outside.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2022

And then the smile left his face and he stood tall and the heels of the boots snapped together with a clack and he saluted me and marched off.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli