clangor
Example Sentences
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After all, the prevailing idea of economic progress — as measured by gross domestic product — depends on expanding the clangor of industrial production, Big Data and the attention economy.
From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2022
As a teenager, he fashioned literal sound sculptures out of scrap metal: Their windblown clangor, he hoped, would keep insects from his family’s crops.
From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2017
Someone has taken care, here and there, to create smart moments amid the clangor, but Jeff Koons always wins.
From Washington Post • Sep. 13, 2015
Beginning in anxious clangor — alto saxophone blare, wood mallets jack-hammered sideways along the metal bars — their duologue gradually softened and ripened, occasionally flirting with outright beauty.
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2011
Qarth was one of the world's great ports, its great sheltered harbor a riot of color and clangor and strange smells.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Vocabulary lists containing clangor
A Long Walk to Water
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 8–13
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"The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe
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