- present participle of clunk.
clunking
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While reviews were largely positive, The Quietus recoiled at the lack of heavy guitar anthems in a scathing screed that employed descriptors like "unintrusive", "clunking" and "by-numbers detritus".
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2025
Daniels strode briskly to the stand, not looking at Trump, her shoes clunking on the floor.
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2024
Foul balls clunking loudly upon landing in the seats.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 24, 2020
This type of wry evangelicalism was about as close to later English Puritanism as Italian eurocommunism would be to the clunking fist of Stalinism.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2018
There is no noise save the scribbling of pencils and the pacing of examiners and the clunking of the huge radiator.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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