clunk

"I was hanging there for a second then I heard a click or a clunk and then I woke up on the floor," he said.

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2024

A loud clunk and the crowd roared as the ball sailed above the field and over the fence for a walk-off home run to seal the championship win.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2024

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

There was a clunk, a splash, and a gasp from within the stall and he saw Her- mione’s eye peering through the keyhole.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling

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

In the back room of the threadbare offices of the Irish soccer team Bohemians, the printer clunks and chugs and whirs incessantly, spitting out a cascade of shipping labels.

From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2024

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

From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2024

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

This time it shifts a little, but then the rope slips through my hands and the trap clunks back on the bottom.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick

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

At first, I was so nervous that I clunked a few easy returns.

From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2021

The lock was stiff, but it clunked closed.

From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman

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

I’d heard the piano played countless times before, to accompany hymns, but when Mary played it, the sound was nothing like that formless clunking.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover