clank

It’s already quite hot inside my shoebox apartment as the radiators clank away, drowning out my upstairs neighbor’s heavy footsteps with their cacophonous symphony.

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2026

"It feels like a prison," he says as the gates clank shut behind him.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025

The early scenes have a certain ponderous solemnity as two hunter-warrior-predator brothers from the Yautja race fight for honor with weapons that combine the clank of all things medieval with modern pizzazz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

“All is fair where you wear the crown,” snipes Gal Gadot’s evil queen, who wears slinky ballgowns made of obsidian shards that clatter and clank with every step.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025

I clank my spoon against the bowl, scraping the sticky rice from the sides.

From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na

Mr. Rasmussen makes Douglass’s conversion vivid and persuasive; Mr. Rebeiro exposes its jurisprudential machinery with impressive precision, even when that machinery clanks a little.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

With sweaty insecurity, Tucker steps on his punchlines and clanks the setups.

From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2024

Maybe until the final seconds of the season opener when he clanks one?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2022

Saturday’s game was filled with a lot more clanks than swishes for Seattle U. But as basketball coaches often say, offense can come and go.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2022

I drop my fork, and it clanks loudly against my plate.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

“If they clanked, which a lot of them did.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

But as silky smooth as the sequence looked — and as strange as a slump from Watkins seemed — the step-back clanked away.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2025

“John Cage would like this,” she said, gesturing at us with the ever-present two cigarettes in her hand, as forks clanked on plates.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024

He smiled as another shell clanked into the dumpster.

From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2023

Now the radiators clanked extra-loud, several times — so loud, they woke Ralph up.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

We watched him operate a vintage letterpress, the mechanisms whirring and clanking like a steam engine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

Coronado climbed a ladder up the pueblo walls in his clanking armor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

The sound of clanking leg shackles could be heard moments before Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro walked into the door of a New York City courtroom for the first time.

From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026

The air thrums with the din of destruction — giant excavators clanking against steel beams, trucks bleating out warning signals as they back into position, green organic material whooshing out of hoses onto finished sites.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2025

There was a clanking of hooves along the deserted waterfront.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell