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

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

Likewise, the almost medieval purity of Mary Ellen Childs’s “Black Box,” performed by Quartet New Generation, a German recorder consort, served as airy refreshment after the density, clangor and volume of Mr. Ziporyn’s offering.

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2010

Ser Rebar's ancestral runes proved small protec-tion as Ser Loras split his shield and drove him from his saddle to crash with an awful clangor in the dirt.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin