How To Use Clang In A Sentence

The spoon had been bent into such a shape that would provide louder clanging, and the pot was misshapen, being dented in many places.
A dirty orange glow escapes from half-open hatches, grilled vents, and small square windows of grimy glass, and the clangour of beaten metal can be heard far out into the endless snowstorm. Weapon Of Choice short story – excerpt « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS
There was the hiss of pressurization, then the clang of a hammer against metal Brunner's signal that they were ready. CORMORANT
He used his knife to deflect her sword and they clashed with a loud clang.
We suddenly heard a feeble clang of the gate - like someone was knocking, but not very hard.

The clanging sound of metal on metal assaulted his ears.
Oops, Business minister Baroness Vadera seems to have dropped a clanger - the BBC are reporting that "Baroness Vadera was asked when the UK could expect to see some" green shoots "and replied:" It's a very uncertain world right now globally ... "a few green shoots"
In a moment of blind panic, I crashed through the back door, the door clanging on its frame as it snapped back into place.
A fallen sword clanged and scraped across the stone. Sharpe's Rifles
He was carrying his hand bell by its clapper, and he shifted his grip to the handle and began clanging.
Her blade clanged against Amanda's hard, striking a haze of sparks that lit the air between them.
‘Ah - Miss Corel,’ he greeted her charmingly, ignoring the clangor of alarms and frantic shouts from outside.
It's that tripping, multi-syllabic word that sounds like a bell clanging: "tintinnabulation" that I love so much. Edgar Allan Poe: On his birthday, a celebration of his words
I can't help noticing the occasional clanger in war films.
As the last words came hoarsely forth on to the night air, _clang, clang, clang_, burst out the tocsin of the alarm bell, silencing the music in the ballroom and sending an electric thrill through every listener within the precincts of the castle; but ere the great bell had sent forth a score of vibrating notes which came quivering through the darkness and echoing from every wall, the clattering of hoofs began in obedience to the whispered commands of his Majesty of France: The King's Esquires The Jewel of France
Dishes clang, waiters shout, children laugh and people chatter away in expressive, nine-tone, high volume Cantonese.
Putting it in motion takes time and attention; do it right, and you get all kinds of clash and clangor and pretty sparks ‘His voice trails off, and his gaze is suddenly hard and keen.’
Low shots strike the tin with a loud clang, meaning “out!” Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Squash*: Alex Beam
the alarm clangored throughout the building
He woke up to hear the sound of bells clanging in the distance.
The piece concludes with a passage from the Georgian hymn Upalo Ghmerto - lovely but also undocumented - and clanging bells.
However, the Las Vegas Four Seasons is right there on The Strip, right next to the Luxor, which kind of implicates it as one of those Vegas hotels - lobbies clanging with slot machines and crowded with wandering tourists clad in Reeboks, Dockers shorts, hooded sweatshirts tied around their waists and clear plastic visors embellished with flamingoes. Elvis Didn't Sing at the Wedding - Four Seasons Hotel, Las Vegas
A thundering clang reverberated around the catwalk.
He heard the fire bells clanging, and saw the horses running at full speed towards the financial district.
When cries confused, and clangours rolled more near; The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan
No two adjacent doors are ever opened at the same time and the whole building is a clangour of keys and doors, enough to rapidly induce headaches and rampant claustrophobia.
A knock at the door alarmed me and my silver filigree brush clanged off the glass vanity.
His great sword clanged down, the edge shearing sparks against the granite stair. Shadowfane
The door clanged shut behind them.
Robertson has strong ideas about where he wants to be artistically, but admits to some clangers in his 13-year career.
Industrial progress in Chicago produced loud sounds, whether the thrum of machinery, the clangor of busy loading docks, or the cries of brawny laborers.
Hurtling through the air, it seemed, with a sense of fierce speed, the varied clangors of the train, the ringing of the rails, the frequent hoarse blasts of the whistle, the jangling of the metallic fixtures, the jarring of the window-panes, all were keenly differentiated by her exacerbated and sensitive perceptions, and each had its own peculiar irritation. The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee
Swords flash, the clang of sounds echoing painfully in tender ears.
Behind and in front, musicians played Lydian airs on flutes and pipes, shook sistra with their little tinkling bells, and clanged great cymbals. Funeral Games
A great noise of clanging metal filled the air, and filled Ivya with a type of battle rage as she rained down blows on her brother.
The wrought-iron gates clanged shut behind me.
The door clanged shut behind them.
Walking the Imperial Alps is definitely something to savour - mountains, meadows, fruits, cheese, beer, schnapps, wine, flowers, clanging cowbells - what more could you want from a holiday?
The metallic clang of the fire escape being clambered on was getting louder by the second.
The school bell clanged, warning the students that they might be late.
The chairman of the independent community group, said: ‘I think they've dropped a clanger.’
The cacophonous clangor grows louder and louder.
He elbowed a lever into position, and a loud clang sounded from the bowels of the ship.
The door clanged for the last time and Tessa knew that this was the last person to come through it that night.
On top of his last Parliamentary committee appearance, where among other infelicitous comments, Griffin said that he didn't understand his organisation's budget, he has since dropped a clanger on his relationship with the Government.
artsier" moments where they clang aggressively and make a racket, without much good effect. Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website
The clangor spread outward until all of Rata Sum was ringing. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
Species such as eiders, oldsquaw (Clangula hyemalis), common merganser (Mergus merganser), and red-breasted mergansers (M. serrator), are hunted by set seasonal open and closing dates. Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic
The footsteps retreated quickly from inside her cell, the door clanging shut and the bolt scraped across the metal, signaling the door was locked.
1. Spock watching destruction of Vulcan = Leia at the destruction of Alderaan 2. Scotty's Ewok-like friend, who I am informed is called a "clanger" in the SW-verse. Archive 2009-05-01
With this their swords clashed with a loud clang of metal.
She took two long steps and seized the marlinespike, yanking it off the desk in a shower of rubbish and clanging oddments. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
He took us first to see his docks and godowns, resounding with the loud clangors of trade, and then through the grassy Kow-Loon plains, by a wide red road shadowed with banana-trees, to this lordly pavilion set on the crest of many flowering terraces – its pale-yellow outlines cut cameo-like against the burning blue of the equatorial sky. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
The door swung shut behind them, clanging once more to tell of someone's departure.
I am not an apologist for him - he did commit an enormous clanger in a very public way at the game - but all the time he has been open and accessible to his questioners.
As I dragged myself out from underneath him the door clanged shut with such a final note that I felt a shiver go down my spine.
The spade clanged when it hit the rock.
At night, from his hospital bed, he could hear the chanting and gunfire and, on the day the Shah left, the clangorous sounds of a giant celebration. The Prize
The coldest-blooded amongst us, Mr. Massingham of _The Nation_ for example, must confess that it was a moment rich in the emotion which bestows immortality on incident when this son of a village schoolmaster, who grew up in a shoemaker's shop, and whose boyish games were played in the street of a Welsh hamlet remote from all the refinements of civilization and all the clangours of industrialism, announced to a breathless Europe without any pomposity of phrase and with but a brief and contemptuous gesture of dismissal the passing away from the world's stage of the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns -- those ancient, long glorious, and most puissant houses whose history for an æon was the history of The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster
The play was punctuated by the merciless clangor of wood blocks.
They had not died away, before they were taken up and repeated, east, west, and north and south, by shriller, more pervading clangors. The Roman Traitor (Vol. 2 of 2)
Someone tripped the fire alarm, which added its deafening clangour to the tumult. NIGHT SISTERS
It clanged on the concrete and the bulb shattered with a tinkle.
Despite their clangor on LA based Persian satellite TV, these individuals who spend all of their time attacking groups that secure victories for the community, were unable to prevent positive change, exposing themselves and demonstrating that they have no base of support. Shawn Amoei: Obama Scores Points With the Iranian People
Twilight at Mrs. Wickett's, when the School bell clanged for call-over, brought them back to him in a cloud — Katherine scampering along the stone corridors, laughing beside him at some "howler" in an essay he was marking, taking the cello part in a Mozart trio for the School concert, her creamy arm sweeping over the brown sheen of the instrument. Goodbye, Mr Chips
Undaunted, I took the Cobra out on the Chesapeake Bay in small-craft warnings, the wind whipping the halyards of docked sailboats into a clanging frenzy.
The songs are therapeutic laptop pop ballads amidst the industrial clangor of the album.
The clang was followed by more loud clashes from someone dropping something.
he dropped a clanger
‘It is a fine sight to see the skyscrapers of Manhattan slip away astern; with them fade the cares and clangor of the city,’ she wrote some years later.
It is the same on all the feast-days: then the city sinks into profounder quiet; only bells are noisy, and where their clangor is so common as in Venice, it seems at last to make friends with the general stillness, and disturbs none but people of untranquil minds. Venetian Life
Five minutes later a new, keening note appears accompanied by an occasional clang like the hull of an ocean liner being hammered in dry-dock.
He woke with his head clanging like an anvil, riding through a town where well-dressed inhabitants stared at him as he passed. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
Among the 102 species of birds are spotted eagle Aquila clanga (VU), golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos, capercaillie Tetrao urogallus, hazel grouse Bonasa bonasia, eagle owl Bubo bubo, black woodpecker Dryocopus martius, three-toed woodpecker Picoides trydactilus and Alpine chough Pyrrhocorax graculus. Pirin National Park, Bulgaria
I can't help noticing the occasional clanger in war films.
The songs are therapeutic laptop pop ballads amidst the industrial clangor of the album.
Television, of course, has its fair share of classics and clangers.
The door that had clanged shut in that instant came flying open with a storm behind it.
Sometimes I drop a clanger, sometimes I make a mistake other times I get it right.
Esclangon elaborated a theory for these functions, studied their differentiation and integration, and examined the differential equations which allow them as coefficients.
She has now made a public apology for the clanger and is writing to council bosses to say sorry after her remarks outraged people in the town, including political, business and sports leaders.
Gone forever are the enormous key rings with the bunches of clanging keys carried by the prison officers.
When it struck the second boot it clanged sonorously, like an old, dented gong, upended in a cellar. BEHINDLINGS
Putting it in motion takes time and attention; do it right, and you get all kinds of clash and clangor and pretty sparks ‘His voice trails off, and his gaze is suddenly hard and keen.’
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They stood in opposite corners of the ring, our man with his back to the tent fighter, waiting to be called to fight by the clang of the bell.
His temples bulged with the throb of an anvil clang, and yellow black swirls swam across his vision. Earl of Durkness
The sound can be a raucous metallic clangour or it can be as soft as notes on velvet.
However, their argument was abruptly ended when a loud clang reverberated around the dungeon.
To the ugly-American eye it looks like a vast and patchy soccer field, bordered by stockyards, grain silos and the clanging docks of Port au Spain.
With this their swords clashed with a loud clang of metal.
The spade clanged when it hit the rock.
On the following morning, I was awakened by the clanging of doors and the activity of inmates serving food.
Following sunrise comes the clanging sound of scores of church bells, coupled with the crow of roosters from the adjacent Moslem Quarter.
One half inch closer and he would have been dead, killed by fragments of skull driven into his brain, but instead he staggered, stunned, and his vision was suddenly sheeted with scarlet as he twisted, fell, and heard the sword clang as it bounced on the rampart's stones. Sharpe's Siege
In a few moments the clanging of the bell ceased, for the marquis had discovered the old sextoness in her cell, and compelled her to desist. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf
The clang of the door of opportunity thus knelled in the ears of the colored house servant whirled the whole face of Negro advancement as on some great pivot. DARKWATER
I did, and the next time I fired the tin can span off the boulder with a satisfying clang. AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE
Bells clanged in Abasio's head, like a tocsin ardently rung. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
A voice cut cold and taunting through the clangor of the fight.
He's being blamed for dropping a massive political clanger .
Here is a small sample of clangers from Thursday afternoon.
The disconnect between his robust frame and sickly music mirrors the tension in the songs themselves, between quivering ephemera and hulking clangor.
The crowd silenced as a loud clang sounded behind the burly man.
He slammed the truck door behind him sending a metal clangor through the manzanitas. Owls
As soon as Rane had disappeared, the big, metal gym doors clanged open and slammed shut.
Picture the dignity of the teacher of a class of little boys who lets his sword clang to terrify the youngsters under him, or who tries to frighten the girls by displaying his weapon. Korea's Fight for Freedom
And yet you just know they're going to drop a clanger somewhere along the line - probably in the quarter-finals.
He longed with a great longing for sympathy, for love, for the softer influences that cradle even warriors between the clangors of the battles. The Blazed Trail
It was like a surge of current, as she pulled up her posture, wrapped an apron around her waist, and begin clinking and clanging the cups and the spoons, putting hot water on the stove to boil, and just being in charge. Archive 2005-11-01
They are like sensitive surfaces that have been laid in the midst of the New Yorks; and record not only the clangors, but all the violent forms of the city, the beat of the frenetic activity, the intersecting planes of light, the masses of the masonry with the tiny, dwarf-like creatures running in and out, the electric signs staining the inky nightclouds. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
The disconnect between his robust frame and sickly music mirrors the tension in the songs themselves, between quivering ephemera and hulking clangor.
Is it because those at the top have dropped a clanger and don't like to admit it?
His broadsword hummed through the air, clanged against armor and other blades, and tore flesh and bone with slaughterhouse sounds. Conan the Relentless
To ensure he still had a roof over his head, he would have needed to have a sound idea of how his lord felt about others, and to enable him to avoid any clangers, he would have been privy to much gossip and tittle-tattle.
Depending on which band you are listening to, pan music can be raucous and noisy, a riotous volley of plinks, clangs and bongs, or it can be like notes on velvet.
The bell made a resounding clang.
I believe I also dropped clangorous hints as the use of Google by which an answer might be procured. 2010 February « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS
At that precise moment, a gong near the entrance way was sounded, the metallic clang echoing around the Great Hall.
For the best part of a century, that clanging sound signalled the abrupt end of an English night out.
The spells make the appropriate zaps and sizzles, the explosions sound good, and the clanging of weapons on armor are realistic.
To complete the aural aspects of the game, the sound effects perform their role admirably with the expected clangs of weapons striking armor, roars and grumbles of enemies, and zaps and fizzles of magic.
So, too, the poem, entitled "Sleeping Out", charms me and stirs me with its golden clangors and crying flames of emotion as it mounts up to "the white one flame", to "the laughter and the lips of light". The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke
The popping of revolvers, the clanging of cow bells, the clash of tin boilers -- all that medley of discord which lends volume to the horror known as a charivari -- tore to shreds the harmony of the night. A Man Four-Square
“All aboard,” the conductor yelled, clanging a handbell. KNIGHTLEY ACADEMY
He flung a butter knife at my head and it clanged noisily off the wallpaper and onto the abused linoleum floor.
His blades drop with a clang on the stony steps, blood drips from his hands.
A large click came from inside the door, followed by another short series of clinks and clangs.
Trees absorb the siren wails, clanging of trash cans, and other sounds of urban life.
The sharp clang of metal on metal echoed throughout the arena.
The young monk clangs the bell every morning.
That loud "clang" we all heard two years ago was the sound of the prison gates closing tight. Matthew Anderson: America's on "Lockdown"
Which is why Obama's paean to Lawrence Summers on Stewart show rang so clangorously, as he praised the oafish Harvard professor for having performed a heckuva job, a phrase that one might have thought would have been permanently exiled from the presidential lexicon. Jacob Heilbrunn: Obama's Tactical Press Conference
Hereward passed on to the barracks, where the military music had seemed to halt; but on the Varangian crossing the threshold of the ample courtyard, it broke forth again with a tremendous burst, whose clangour almost stunned him, though well accustomed to the sounds. Count Robert of Paris
Indeed it was his custom, though Elsie had not known it, to follow every funeral going to this, his favourite churchyard of Ruthven; and, possibly in imitation of its booming, for it was still tolled at the funerals, he had given the old bell the name of _the wow_, and had translated its monotonous clangour into the articulate sounds -- _come hame, come hame_. The Portent & Other Stories
Two of the works, Cage's clangorous First Construction in Metal and Skempton's hypnotic Lento, are relatively well known, but both Cardew's Bun No 1 and Feldman's Piano and Orchestra will be receiving their London premieres. This week's new live music
And romantic it certainly was — the fog, like the grey shadow of infinite mystery, brooding over the whirling speck of earth; and men, mere motes of light and sparkle, cursed with an insane relish for work, riding their steeds of wood and steel through the heart of the mystery, groping their way blindly through the Unseen, and clamouring and clanging in confident speech the while their hearts are heavy with incertitude and fear. Chapter 1
To err is human, and even the most efficient employee will eventually drop a clanger.
Those who were decoyed into these staterooms endured them with disgust while the boat was at anchor; but when the paddle-wheels began to revolve, and dismal din of clang and bang and whirr came down about their ears, and threatened to unroof the fortress of the brain, why, then they fled madly, precipitately, leaving their clothes mostly behind them. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859
They summon, they clang, they peal and they boom in a uniquely cacophonous harmony.
A number of waterfowl species including goldeneye Bucephala clangula, goosander Mergus merganser, wigeon Anas penelope, teal Anas crecca and bean goose Anser fabalis breed in the area. Virgin Komi Forests, Russian Federation
It clanged to the ground making a tinny metallic sound.
a clanging gong
In the clangor of battle I discerned the slight sound of something moving at a great velocity toward me.
Those clanging bells reminded me of another vendor who used to make similar rounds in the neighbourhood.
To tremendous cheers and the clangour of bells they rode in on one horse, with Margaret riding pillion behind the King, escorted by two hundred knights and pausing to witness numerous pageants.
The Quarantine Authority helicopter gunfire had ended at dawn and she closed her eyes to a stillborn morning, until the hollow clang of her name spooked her awake. Their Dogs Came With Them
■ who have ftood forth the zealous advocates of the democratical American charters, be the loudeft in their clangours againft fuch inn novations? Political reflections on the late colonial governments [microform] : in which their original constitutional defects are pointed out, and shown to have naturally produced the rebellion, which has unfortunately terminated in the dismemberment of the British
The cacophonous clangor grows louder and louder.
The bell was clanging and clashing passionately, as Cecil at last went down to the weights, all his friends of the Household about him, and all standing "crushers" on their champion, for their stringent esprit de corps was involved, and the Guards are never backward in putting their gold down, as all the world knows. Under Two Flags
Leader Zach Condon gained wide attention for the artful clangor of Beirut's 2006 debut, which bore the influence of Gypsy music. A Brief Guide to the Northside Festival
I came out rotten with fleas, stinking of nautch-oil and cheap perfume and cooking ghee, with my ears full of beggars 'whines and hawkers' jabbering and the clang of the booths - but that was all. Fiancée
He grasped the sword and traced the sword's point on the stone with a slow clangor.
Someone tripped the fire alarm, which added its deafening clangour to the tumult. NIGHT SISTERS
Caramon ducked and the sword clanged uselessly against the chain, notching the blade. Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Rippling amongst the voices were the sounds of horses and dogs and the occasional bray of a donkey, the clank and scrape of metal, the clang of forges working hard to repair damages and the low, mellow crackle of fires.
We should have soared up like clangorous voices, — and here we must trundle as grey – yarn thread – balls. Peer Gynt
Old men, young men, college youths, some well dressed, some dirty and ragged; delivery men hailed him from their wagons and motormen clanged their bells at him as they went by; once in a while a lady [there were "ladies" in those days] would tell their coachman to stop as they drove past and would bow and speak to him. Some Memories of Daddy – Jack London
Before they could reach the Ghul, the enemy had slain his steed and taken him prisoner; but they ceased not to charge the Infidels, till the day grew dark for dust and eyes were blinded, and the sharp sword clanged while firm stood the valiant cavalier and destruction overtook the faint-heart in his fear; till the Moslems were amongst the Paynims like a white patch on a black bull. — The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
But she raised the stakes considerably this March with "The Law of Large Numbers," a 12-song set that weaves influences from Ray Davies to Kate Bush to the Go-Betweens and makes for the perfect salve in a year when countless heavily reverbed girl groups clanged onto year-end best-of lists. Lost tracks: Emma Pollock, "The Law of Large Numbers"
I heard her footsteps fade, then the clang of the metal door shutting behind her. PREY
Also the winds brought rumbling earthquake and duststorm, thunder and lightning and the lurid thunderbolt, which are the shafts of great Zeus, and carried the clangour and the warcry into the midst of the two hosts. Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
Too much can be extrapolated from Michael Carrick's clanger in passing to Yaya Touré on the edge of the United penalty box and Touré then scoring the game's only goal. Manchester City's disparate stars unite to change the script
Notably with an accompaniment of Mick Harvey's smooth, wailing organ and clanging percussions from Harvey herself as she sings like a possessed blueswoman. Epinions Recent Content for Home
The gate clanged shut loudly behind him making him jump.
So, too, the poem, entitled Sleeping Out, charms me and stirs me with its golden clangors and crying flames of emotion as it mounts up to the white one flame, to the laughter and the lips of light. Introduction by George Edward Woodberry
In these damp rooms, the clang of milk churns had once competed with the cries of milkmaids locked in the arms of robust prayerful men. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
His secretary was to get the clangula to turpentine overside his tsuga to end the gaelic saturnism for planless lounge. Rational Review
To the ugly-American eye it looks like a vast and patchy soccer field, bordered by stockyards, grain silos and the clanging docks of Port au Spain.
In these damp rooms, the clang of milk churns had once competed with the cries of milkmaids locked in the arms of robust prayerful men. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
'There is the bell,' cried Sophie as a remote but insistent clangour reached them. Is it foolish to question whether the Vice President is part of the Executive Branch?
At that second a trolley came hurtling by, heading downtown, its bell clanging loud.
Which is why Obama's paean to Lawrence Summers on Stewart show rang so clangorously, as he praised the oafish Harvard professor for having performed a heckuva job, a phrase that one might have thought would have been permanently exiled from the presidential lexicon. Jacob Heilbrunn: Obama's Tactical Press Conference
-- The name jubilee is derived from the Hebrew jobel, the joyful shout or clangor of trumpets, by which the year of jubilee was announced. Smith's Bible Dictionary
Best heed the sea's rote and an iron keel rotten with salt clanging on the rocks; second best, read several thousand lines of interpolated verse and various lists ascribed to a quite imaginary rhapsode called Homer.
The other clanger was the very statistically questionable survey done prior to Peter Hain blocking AMs standing both on the regional list and in a constituency. How to Lose Face & Alienate People
The movie lifts the lid on this seething cauldron of unspoken, unspeakable shame, takes a good long peep within and then drops the lid again with a clang.
As the herd gained momentum the bells on the lead cows rang out louder and the erratic clanging became a regular tolling.
A loud clang from several feet away made her jump.
He could hear the hundred gates of Thebes closing on him with a great metallic clangor. THEBES OF THE HUNDRED GATES
The din of the forge grows louder, hammer clangs on anvil as more and more people arrive weary of war, drawn by the light, ready for a new day of peace.
In driving the bulls from one pasture to another, or bringing them into the towns, the _cabestros_ are followed with unwavering faith by these otherwise dangerous animals; where the _cabestro_ goes, clanging his great bell, the bull follows, and while under the charge of his domesticated friend he is quite harmless. Spanish Life in Town and Country
The clanging made Noddy pause for a moment which allowed Geoffrey to get out into the front path.
PORT-AU-PRINCE-The coins clanged as they bounced off the roof and she lay with her arms still wrapped around the cardboard box of ornamental mirrors she had grabbed from the abandoned building. Thestar.com - Home Page
The watchtower bell clanged, its reverberating tones echoing through the fog.
This legacy includes colorful processions in which descended deities are borne aloft under high parasols and bending palms; native dances and dance-dramas in elaborate costumes and masks, to the clang-bong-ring of a gamelan; and intricate woodcarving, metalwork and hand-woven fabrics. Island Art, and All That Comes With It
She began unpinning her big name button then let it clang to the pavement. The Big Name Buttons
That the martial clangour of a trumpet had something in it vastly more grand, heroic, and sublime than the twingle-twangle of The Letters of Robert Burns
This clanging omission was at least partly behind the housing crisis of the early 1990s when 1000 families a week lost their homes because of mortgage debt.
Emerson really means to ‘accept,’ as he puts it, ‘the clangor and jangle of contrary tendencies’.
On the previous evening, however, when he snuffled out his nocturnal treat, the cage door came clanging down. 007 was trapped. Do we have to shoot the badgers?
The door clanged shut behind them.
The one-eyed brigand's sword clanged against Conan's and rebounded. Conan the Fearless
And there was an almost audible "clang" in my chest -- yeah, my heart -- and I was overwhelmed with the feeling of falling in love and also knowing I would never be free again. Slide over here and give me a moment
She quickened her steps to catch up to him, her boots clanging dully on the metal gridwork. Songs of Love & Death
I didn't mind so much when I felt my footbrake snap, but when I put all my weight on my side-brake, and the lever clanged to its full limit without a catch, it brought a cold sweat out of me. Danger! and Other Stories
The sound can be a raucous metallic clangour or it can be as soft as notes on velvet.
Pure tones transform themselves into distorted, clangorous metallic noises.
The king fell upon his knees, his frail body clattering against the flagstones with a loud clang and tears poured down his face.
Beneath him spread; nor clangours, nor deep groans, The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan

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