clank
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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
The clank of this supposed breakthrough idea is as inelegant as the meandering storytelling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
"It feels like a prison," he says as the gates clank shut behind him.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 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
They heard the rhythmic clank of armor on the street.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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
The barge also retains fixtures from Panto’s days: Patinated rigging blocks hang from the ceiling; a century-old bell clanks when the barge jerks.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
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
Then a series of odd sounds came up from the ground beneath our feet: metallic clanks, voices, and a noise like water flushing.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
“If they clanked, which a lot of them did.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
LeBron James, amazing again with 16 points in the final dozen minutes, clanked a foolish three-point shot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2023
Courage midfielder Manaka Matsukubo had the crowd gasping in the 74th minute when her possible game-winner clanked off the cross bar.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2023
He smiled as another shell clanked into the dumpster.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2023
Coins clanked onto the hard surface, followed by folded bills gliding in for a soft landing.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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
It’s not yet 11 a.m., but punk music blasts from the speakers, punctuated by the rumbling and clanking of skateboard wheels on concrete.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025
"So that means we're going to see lights and hear lorries and cars and clanking about," says Jenny Upson, 74, a Felixstowe Road resident for 17 years.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2025
He glanced up when we all filed in with our weapons and armor clanking.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
