clunk

The road was too narrow to swerve, and we heard a nasty clunk.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026

At times, I found myself fantasizing about nothing else in the world but the satisfying clunk of a torrent of ice from a self-serve soda fountain.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2023

“Then, we heard a clunk, and we all collectively knew one had dropped off. So we continued to do that, until the weights were all out.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2023

I do need to replace the tube one of these years: it sometimes makes a worrying clunk when I sit down.

From The Verge ● Apr. 27, 2022

There was a whirr and clunk, like metal grinding against metal.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood

At no point is Desiree’s identity presented in a way that clunks with “very special episode” messaging or talking points.

From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2025

The fan she does have slowly clunks as it starts, eventually whirring into action.

From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2024

But these clunks are essential to the Busch style, and not just because his plays, with the exception of his Broadway hit “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife,” have usually been niche-taste, shoestring affairs.

From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2020

But, like a 10-year-old Prius, the state’s strategy is showing its age, gathering problems and, as it clunks along, crying out for a tune-up.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 3, 2016

I pull out a chair, which clunks along the patio tiles.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

After the robots noisily clunked down the stairs, the strangeness of the encounter began to fade.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

The scene that best defines the story’s idealism happens long before Dunk gets clunked in the head or skewered by a lance.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2026

The Bengals clunked to a 4-11-1 finish amid the chaos and confusion of the pandemic.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2022

One floor down, in her music studio, Anderson clunked the black box down.

From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2021

The domovoi wavered between Anya and Ivan, then looked up at the ceiling as heavy boot steps clunked down on the floor from the direction of the hayloft.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

Eight men sliding 16 stones down an ice sheet to the soundtrack of clunking granite, furious sweeping and hollered commands of "hard" and "curl".

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026

Carroll said: “He’s really excited to be back. He was missed enormously and was good to see him out there clunking around with our guys and getting back into the rhythm of it.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2022

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