clacking

Example Sentences

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There's a reassuring clacking as the individual letters hit the blank white page in quick, noisy succession:

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2026

You can credit me later with tickets, and so, yes, it is being held together with tape because I was clacking it too much in Vegas and Seattle.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2025

To be completely fair, if Perkins sought out to make a film that was brutal for brutality’s sake, I might not even be sitting here, clacking away on my keyboard.

From Salon • Feb. 26, 2025

Sound: the whirring and clacking of many machines.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2024

There’s a moment of stillness, broken only by the rhythmic clacking of ties passing beneath us.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen