[
UK
/klˈæk/
]
[ US /ˈkɫæk/ ]
[ US /ˈkɫæk/ ]
VERB
- make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens
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make a rattling sound
clattering dishes - speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
NOUN
- a sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together; may be repeated
- a simple valve with a hinge on one side; allows fluid to flow in only one direction
How To Use clack In A Sentence
- The rocking motion of the treadle and the gentle clacking of the machine often lulled the restless child.
- The jar tipped over, and hundreds of wooden clacks could be heard as the pencils littered the ground.
- The "clack" of the Nikon has created so many uncomfortable moments distracting the talent and most recently Kid Rock asked me to use a different camera. News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
- Her heels clacked on the cement in an almost professional manner as the doctor stepped towards the doors.
- Every fifteen minutes a train made its appearance, tooting and clacking, regular as clockwork.
- To play at Shuttlecock methinks is the game now," says a character in The Two Maids of More Clacke, written by Robert Armin in 1609. Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
- After that you might as well drink to the peacefulness too, uninterrupted but for the clack of a distant tractor.
- Tom Huff shouted across the railroad car as the train click-clacked away from Manhattan. BUMMER • by John Brooke
- The room was nodding and chomping their clackers and chewing on the drink, mouthing every bit of taste out of it. CHASING the WHITE DOG
- From downstairs, I heard the clack of the front door.
