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.
On a long drive back and forth from Clackamas Lake a body of water, which at best, merits the term pond I gave it another listen. I'm getting back, into getting back into listening to some Silver Jews
White-knuckled, she gripped the clacking needles so ferociously she could have knitted the booties in gale force winds and they still would have turned out ankle-stranglers. First
The regular suck and clack of the respirators calmed me down. A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
They gazed in awe at the hive of activity against the muted background clack of typewriter and word processor keyboards.
She clacked across the floor in black high-heeled shoes. A GAME OF CIRCUMSTANCE • by Tommy B. Smith
Tiktaalik would have breathed like a lungfish, says Clack, senior assistant curator at Cambridge's University Museum of Zoology.
Edna said, with a blinding smile, the echo of her clacking heels loud on the hardwood floor of our hallway.
Unrolling it with a few clacks, he revealed the map's contents.
This “new set of clackers,” as Dahl joyously described them, still left a “tidy hunk” for the RAF,72 but they were a source of great pleasure to their owner, who believed that in most cases real teeth were more trouble than they were worth. Storyteller
She clacked her spoon back onto the tray, so that a tiny glop of porridge leapt from it. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
A grand dame made her entry, progressing to the front row, clacking her heels all the way.
Close by the inn stood the ancient church, and the shrill, discordant clack of the cracked bell could be distinctly heard in the ballroom.
Her blue satin heels clacked alarmingly in the empty hall, but she didn't care.
The third one turned the mechanism with a sharp "clack". Renegade's Magic
With a click of a sharp heel, Mrs. Watson clacked down a narrow sidewalk leading to a small brick building.
I always thought a physical implementation would sound like “click clack click click click clack clack clack clack …” Kind of like the mechanical crossbars, kind of like the big alphanumeric flippy displays at railroad stations and airports. Intro to Rod Logic « The Half-Baked Maker
There are scrapings on stones, the clack of sticks.
The big door swung heavily inward behind them, wheezed against its sealing gasket, and clacked shut. STONE CITY
_Leechie_ did not say a word, but only went _clack, clack, clack_, and chuckled with pleasure. Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar
I clacked one ski against the other and almost tripped.
At Clackmannan the dial on the lower end of a gable is circular on a square basis, and surmounted by a cherub's head. The Book of Sun-Dials
I notice that my metal cleats can make a really interesting rhythm when I clack them on the cold smooth cement floor.
In spite of the opening and closing of doors, the hasty messengers, the ringing of bells and the perpetual clitter-clack of recording implements, Graham felt isolated, strangely inactive, inoperative. When the Sleeper Wakes
Although she must have heard some of the drum messages over the clack of heddle and shuttle, she made no comment on the world outside. Artichoke
Later, top-feed was introduced, shown by two pipes from the injectors circling the boiler to ‘clack valves’ whence the feed water was able to trickle down a series of trays, mixing with the steam and avoiding much scaling of the metal.
He could hear the clack of high heels walking past in the corridor.
Its markets smelt of durian and its cafés click-clacked with the snap of mah-jong tiles.
Just then, the click, clacking of the mortals' shoes were heard as their darkly silhouetted figures stood in the center near the fountain.
Etta took the worn cap in her hand and looked it over while Auntie click-clacked with her crochet needles.
An almost bare-bones salad of romaine lettuce has a tongue-clacking blast of fresh anchovy dressing.
And by the end of the week Bush was telling an aide to instruct "your clackers" (Bushspeak for press staff) that if he heard any chatter from White House aides about Rumsfeld's getting fired, "they'll have to answer to me. No Good Defense
Forget the tentacle rape, my childhood just took it squarely up the clacker watching that video lol FRIDAY FREE FOR ALL: VOLTRON IS VIOLENT
The sound of DVD cases clacking together brought her back to the video store and she looked toward the sound to see Blake absently flipping through DVDs in a drawer.
And true to form, Mr. Salett returned from his walk-through with something to show Ms. Marrais: a jerry-rigged castanet clacker, acquired during a drop-in at producer Nick Stumpf's studio, The Love Boat. Rocking Near the F Train
Stick you F*&KING opinions up your fat clacker and piisorrrrf and leave me the hell alone. Cheeseburger Gothic » Man, that was like hard work or something.
Her heels clacked on the marble floor.
Neither news source appears to have noted the faint whirring of gears issuing from the back of Clinton's titanium brain cover, or the slight tapping as her interocular heads-up display clacked out the instruction INITIATE EYE-WATERING SEQUENCE. Bill Barol: Mmm... That's Good Pathos!
And true to form, Mr. Salett returned from his walk-through with something to show Ms. Marrais: a jerry-rigged castanet clacker, acquired during a drop-in at producer Nick Stumpf's studio, The Love Boat. Rocking Near the F Train
One of the hemispheres opened with a clack and a snake-like pseudopod shot out. AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE
The original Rock Band kit was tremendously noisy, and it was noise of the "clack" variety. Dubious Quality
She spoke under her breath, clacked her tongue in her mouth like a lizard, fanned herself with a piece of paper drawn from her bag.
The steady thrum of air-conditioning followed by the click-clack of the overhead fans raged together in a unique symphony.
I could hear a faint creak of wood and above that a steady tick, clack: unsheathed claws on the floor.
He could hear the clack of high heels walking past in the corridor.
Through the wall, I heard the monotonous clack of a typewriter, voices, purposeful steps that stopped at the door, which opened to reveal another caricatural American, his teeth perfect, his grin broad and empty. Dreaming in French
The clop of a hoof, the clack of a plate on a table, the sound of wind slipping past a chimney, the ring of a dropped coin on a cobblestone. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
He finished loading the gun and closed the cartridge with a clack.
It makes a faint clack against the tile roof.
Tyler and Nannette's glasses clack together when they kiss for example, and the excuses they find to hang out with one another are both convincing and romantic.
The clop of a hoof, the clack of a plate on a table, the sound of wind slipping past a chimney, the ring of a dropped coin on a cobblestone. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
And while we're currently experiencing a large deposit of sun in the fall of our global warming discontent, the click-clackers of urban centers are causing egregious errors in style by making a run on the bank by drawing summer clothes from their closets: Emily Bracken: Style Guide for Global Warming
The clop of a hoof, the clack of a plate on a table, the sound of wind slipping past a chimney, the ring of a dropped coin on a cobblestone. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Out at the end of the Portland lines – Gresham, Hillsboro, Clackamas (well, in September anyway) – the Birkenstock and granola quotient is probably comparable to other American suburbs. Matthew Yglesias » Transit in St. Louis
It was the women outside my window: they went clack clack clack, never stopping. TESTIMONIES
Lady Ada Byron, Queen of a loose confederacy of hackers, called "clackers," because of the sound made by the mechanical parts in their steam-driven computers. _The Difference Engine_ in the Romantics Classroom
Chris could hear the soft clack of Mr. Marshall's shoes against the marble floor as he walked to get the doorbell.
She also liked the sound of $47-coins clacking into her tray. Undefined
Mandibles clashed, clacking together like snapping tree trunks, and spittle drooled from its fangs.
Rain drops, dices rolls, the clack of betting chips, and peasants working in the fields all make their own sort of music.
Eventually he heard the soft clack of footsteps.
Anyone who remembers halcyon summers on the islands readily recalls the clackety clack noise of the looms that punctuated every 100 yards or so of a walk through any village.
His wingtips clacked behind us, sounding vaguely horse-like. Molecules
Both sets of mascots click-clack out of the tunnel holding their players by the hands and then line up.
Etta took the worn cap in her hand and looked it over while Auntie click-clacked with her crochet needles.
Her mandibles clicked and clacked loudly as she waved her huge spiked forearms in the air, shredding the cobwebs hanging in her way. Master of Mirrors
He could hear the clack of high heels walking past in the corridor.
SHAPIRO: When you're on tour and you have a beautifully tuned Grand, do you feel a little nostalgic for this old clacker? Blitzen Trapper: Ramshackle Roots-Rock
She clacked her spoon back onto the tray, so that a tiny glop of porridge leapt from it. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
The clop of a hoof, the clack of a plate on a table, the sound of wind slipping past a chimney, the ring of a dropped coin on a cobblestone. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Washington County pays $203,040 and Clackamas County pays $25,000 in "assistance" each month Is it time for the city to fold on the "Heritage Building"? (Jack Bog's Blog)
Sal, me, Joey and Sal's sister smoked under the bleachers, shared the beer while the game went on and the crowd made crowd noises, idiots swung toys that made loud clacker sounds, and some guy with one of those new aerosol boat horns blew everyone away. 1963, What I wanted
This "clack" seems to be quite random and much louder. News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
Mr. White typed the code on the lock and it clacked open. DAVY’S TOY BOX • by Bill Ward
IIRC, the CPSC has effectively banned clacker-ball toys that lack a rigid member between the pivot and each moving ball. The Volokh Conspiracy » Errors in CNSNews.Com Story About Judge Sotomayor and the Second Amendment:
Her knitting needles clicked and clacked rhythmically as he pulled the wool from the ball.
A grand dame made her entry, progressing to the front row, clacking her heels all the way.
Her father takes Claire to practice in the Mexican Catholic cemetery, a ratty sandpile decorated with faded plastic flowers and clacking pinwheels, colorful santos and candles, a place her father calls the boneyard. Some Fun
‘Clearly, the whistling and clacking disturbs the workplace and disrupts communications,’ the judge ruled.
The piper takes up his flute; someone else clacks maracas.
They mark our passing with a reproachful squawk and a clack of their fishy bills.
Ambrose was left with 100,000 pairs of clackers he could not sell. Times, Sunday Times
Sally heard a sharp clack as the dragon's jaws unhinged, and a blast of foul breath washed over them.
The dull thud of horse hooves on the packed earth changed suddenly to the loud clacking of iron horseshoes on a paved road.
Frowning, the wordsmith jerks the paper from the machine, its platen and feed roller clacking angrily in protest. The Torture Never Stops
Miguel said, bubble gum clacking in his mouth.
About the time of the Revolution the town became a well-known station for the export of quercitron bark, and all the while the clacking mills were busy along the uneasy rapids of the Brandywine. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873
But he staggered under canvas, pulled his boots off, snored on the ground cloth for a while, woke Jack with the clacking of his jaw.
With that, she turned on her pink heels and clacked her way out of the alley.
We backed off, yelled fire in the hole and squeezed the clacker. Tell me about your run-ins with snakes.
He sat quite still watching out of the window and saying with the car; rackety, clackety, klang, klong; rackety, clackety, klang, klong! Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds
Sunddenly the wolf trembled. Its teeth clacked, and a piteous whine rose from its throat.
We now have a "clacker," and if someone is dominating the discussion we jokingly use the clacker to remind her to behave. Ask Amy
Black fangs clacked, and its shiny, humped abdomen bore the red hourglass markings of a black widow spider. Master of Mirrors
He closed the oaken door behind them gently, trying to muffle the resounding clack as the lock caught in the latch with a hand.
The windshield wipers clacked back and forth.
Clack Row, "mentioned in the preceding extract from the minutes, and it is likely that there is some connection between the" escutcheon "ordered and his burial, i.e. it was, probably ordered for his coffin, he being" in extremis "at the time the A History of Caroline County, Virginia
The fierce clack of tiles on table announces that a mah-jong game is under way in the village of Willow Grove.
As a fan of cowcatchers and clacking wheels, Elrond Lawrence tracked Salinas Valley rails into the early 20th century.
The constant clacking of manual typewriters pounded a symphony of literary achievement against his sensitive eardrums.
A minstrel show became four or so men in blackface doing rough and rowdy songs on banjo, fiddle, tambourine and clacking bones, interspersed with japes, skits and dancing.
Not for nothing that William Gibson called Victorian Babbage programmers “clackers” (The Difference Engine). Intro to Rod Logic « The Half-Baked Maker
A wild scutter in the water, a plunge and a break for the head-waters of the Clackamas was my reward, and the hot toil of reeling-in with one eye under the water and the other on the top joint of the rod, was renewed. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
The clack and tip tap of the dancers heeled shoes echoed in short rhythmic steps to the time of the varied instruments: seeded maracas and strings of hand made guitars, violins, flutes and drums.
Finally she heard a faint footstep, a click-clacking of undoubtedly expensive shoes that grew heavier as they came nearer.
exclaimed Marie Rose, flouncing off, her gold sandals clacking. INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
TYPE: Overhead 2-wing blade with clacker blade A clacker-style buzzbait makes more of a commotion, but due to the added resistance, you can't retrieve it as slowly, making it a poor choice for cold water. How to Pick the Right Spinnerbait for Spring Largemouth Bass
Faith's white heels clacked on the pavement as they headed for the wide church double doors.
He listened carefully as the footsteps moved into the next room - the clacks turning to taps as the man's boots touched the cold tiles of the kitchen.
There I was clacking along the old Tokaido highway in my heavy wooden clogs.
I like the way trees move in the wind, the sound their branches make as they clack together in the leafless winter.
The motion of the boat, the wind in the sails, the "chanties" of the sailors as they went about their work, and the evident content and happiness around him made Harry laugh and sing and toss away his cap and let the fresh salt wind blow on his hot brain in which he fancied the clack and clamor of the looms still lingered. The Measure of a Man
People eyed your feet, hid the shame for the guys who lost to little yellow laundrymen, whose ancestors laid the tracks clacking below. The Long Walk Home
There was that forthright "clack" the metal letters made as they struck the paper. Undefined
She had no love for sewing, but sometimes enjoyed working at the loom and hearing its rhythmic clack.
Forcefully working her knitting needles, Morgana uttered no reply, the clack of her needles the only sound in the room for several moments.
It was the women outside my window: they went clack clack clack, never stopping. TESTIMONIES
I myself being in the fitness industry for almost 30 years have made the switch to office heels "clackers" as they say in the movie The Devil Wears Prada, and found three simple steps to help avoid foot pain. Andrea Metcalf: My Aching Feet -- Avoiding Foot Pain From High Heels
His fingers splayed over the clacker, and then he scrapped his fingernails over it, trying to move it further towards him.
If you hear a loud arc, which is what I refer to as clacking, that means there's a bad connection. Thestar.com - Home Page
Instead, they gradually fell into a sullen silence, their noisemakers clacked to a dead stop, and the truculent trumpet blasts were shushed.
The coins need to consistently make a gentle "coin clacking" noise - not too fast, though. An Introduction to "A Christmas Kitchen In Mexico"
The dull thud of horse hooves on the packed earth changed suddenly to the loud clacking of iron horseshoes on a paved road.
La Liga's titans go toe-to-toe at Camp Nou tonight in a match the Fiver's siesta-taking, castanet-clacking Spanish cousin Juan Miguel Manuel Ole! Conical bifter; and FiverLeaks
Forget that crappy $100 laptop they are working on for 3rd world countries, add a usb keyboard and mouse to this sucker with some good free software. clackerd says: neura, what are you a lieutenant in the shame-shame-shame police? jesus, you rant and bitch like a little girl. i bet you wear your hair in a pony tail. if i had more time, i would have formatted this as a haiku. (or set of haikus.) cheers, chris Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech
The echo of foot steps on the hard wood floor clacked through the house.
With Goulet having expired on the hi-fi, the soundtrack of Ferrell's shot- thunk (cue ball), clack (eight ball), gadunga (corner pocket)-filled the room. The New Yorker
Cara shook her head so violently her teeth clacked together. Choker
Edna said, with a blinding smile, the echo of her clacking heels loud on the hardwood floor of our hallway.
The clop of a hoof, the clack of a plate on a table, the sound of wind slipping past a chimney, the ring of a dropped coin on a cobblestone. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
The barrel of his machine gun clacked against the glass as they pulled off.
They lightly clacked on our linoleum, tap shoes made of thick petrified roots. Guardians
He put his tea down with a clack and stood abruptly.
The click of the camera shutter is the same sound a bear makes clacking its teeth warning another bear go away or I’m going to kick your butt! Locked & Loaded in Parkland
White-knuckled, she gripped the clacking needles so ferociously she could have knitted the booties in gale force winds and they still would have turned out ankle-stranglers. First
The regular suck and clack of the respirators calmed me down. A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
It was the women outside my window: they went clack clack clack, never stopping. TESTIMONIES
Just then the front door slammed and the clack of shoes was heard on the wood floor.
Clackers, mood rings and pet rocks came and went. Times, Sunday Times
The regular suck and clack of the respirators calmed me down. A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
The marble floor makes an impressive clack when walked upon it, and all tones are rich and vibrant.
Mechanical power still held sway, power transmitted through gears and belts, power that clacked and whirred, hammered and hissed.
She also liked the sound of 47 dollar-coins clacking into her tray. Undefined
And he barked once and jumped down, his feet click-clacking on the floorboards, into the kitchen where he joyously slurped and slobbered, getting his muzzle soaking wet.
Rackety, clackety, klang, klong! and down the tunnel came a train of cars. Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds
When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just plimsolls and fluorescent ‘clackers’ on our wheels and hardly any brakes.
The crampons went clack-clack, sharply, the metal points ringing in his ears with each step.
I heard the clack of her heels on the sidewalk.
Mandibles clacked m a gesture of interest and understanding, since the insect's inflexible chitonous face allowed for nothing as robbery as a smile. Orphan Star
Through the kampong's black palms came the sound of galloping gamelan orchestras and bamboo sticks clacking away the evil spirits.
He notes the clicketyclack of high heels across the stage floor as graduate after graduate crosses to accept her diploma. The Seattle Times
It's a lot better than the Windows one is. clicketyclack Turn Thumb Drives Into Feature-Packed Giveaway Drives | Lifehacker Australia
And with a click and a clack, the chain was locked on both of his feet in mere seconds.
After a couple of days, when I'd got the old Urdu bat rolling familiarly off my palate again, I even browned up and put on a puggaree* (* Turban.) and coat and pyjamys, and loafed about the Bund bazaar, letting on I was a Mekran coast trader, and listening to the clack. Fiancée
The teacher's pink high heels clicked and clacked as they made their way back to the front of the room.
His boots clicked and clacked across the hard stone floor.
Individual key action is smooth with a quiet "clack" emitted when fully pressed. NotebookReview.com - The Webs Best Source For Laptop Notebook Info
Hometown crowds try to unnerve enemy shooters with rally towels, pompoms, clackers, rhythmic chants, balloons, and signs that say ‘BRICK.’
Every visitor is given a pair of hardwood rhythm sticks which they clack together while circling four traditionally painted warriors.
There was a large, low-ceiled room, with clacking, rattling machines at which men in white shirt sleeves and blue gingham aprons were working. Sister Carrie
This may simply mean, as some Vogue insiders believe, that Anna is trying to inculcate her lovely daughter with a passion for fashion so that she can succeed Mom -- even though Bee made it clear in The September Issue that she felt the Vogue clackers take mere sartorial matters way too seriously. Gioia Diliberto: Federer Is Betterer
Slip 'em in the smother," shouted Long Jack, making fast the jib-sheet, while the others raised the clacking, rattling rings of the foresail; and the foreboom creaked as the 'We're Here' looked up into the wind and dived off into blank, whirling white. Captains Courageous
Her father takes Claire to practice in the Mexican Catholic cemetery, a ratty sandpile decorated with faded plastic flowers and clacking pinwheels, colorful santos and candles, a place her father calls the boneyard. Some Fun
There was another rustling movement, then a sharp clacking noise, the sound of huge claws clinking against the stone floor.
He'd just clack and clack away at that keyboard.
And what, in Miller's hoop dance, as she danced angular power and discipline to Bach's punctilious, predictable rhythm, was that arhythmical clicketyclacking?
The big door swung heavily inward behind them, wheezed against its sealing gasket, and clacked shut. STONE CITY
Her long fingernails clacked against the rim of a champagne glass.
the clickety-clack of the typewriters
A large hall was built in Rathbane, which now echoes to the clack of timber for indoor hurling.
Jennie clacked over to me, in her humungous shoes.
She sighed from behind him and he heard a small clack as she set her brush down.
Her high heels clacked on the cement floor as she hurried to her car.
Wall, Ralph had been in the unbroken silences of nature so long, that the clack, and crash, and clamor of what we call civilized life almost crazed him. Samantha Among the Brethren, Complete
He led me to the trees where I could see that hundreds of large black birds squawked and clacked at each other, ruffling their feathers.
Its polluted, greenish water wound through Milwaukie and the southeast end of Portland, zigzagging back and forth between Multnomah and Clackamas counties until it emptied, finally, into the Willamette River. The Sins of Brother Curtis
At one point I had to turn down the volume, afraid that I would get the dreaded "clack" from my subwoofer bottoming out. Home Theater Forum
The Nikon D60's pop-up flash is fairly quiet too, releasing with a single "clack;" more tame than the Canon Rebel XTi's far louder "zing / clunk. Imaging Resource News Page
The demon clacked its long talons together, a scowl on its ugly face.
My teeth began clacking together as soon as we went out into the night, as my warm, sluggish body adjusted to the change.
He could hear the clack of high heels walking past in the corridor.

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