[
UK
/klˈæŋɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈkɫæŋɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɫæŋɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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having a loud resonant metallic sound
the clangorous locomotive works
a clanging gong
How To Use clanging In A Sentence
- The noise I do not leave behind; the clanging follows me.
- clanging metal
- Bells were clanging in the tower.
- A loud noise that sounded like the heavy doors opening and then clanging closed again came from behind her.
- But effective culture is not just about rock and roll, clanging cowbells, and dancing chickens.
- The court was a homely little room, with flowers in vases and pot plants on desks rather than scales of justice and clanging doors.
- In a perfect world, she would then have directed a stream of blackened tobacco spit dead into the centre of a freshly-cleaned spittoon, making a brassy clanging noise.
- Right and left parallel clanging ringing a doubledecker and a singledeck moved from their railheads, swerved to the down line, glided parallel. — Ulysses
- Scientists are especially concerned over the fate of many cloud-forest birds, such as the resplendent quetzal, with its streaming tail feather, and the three-wattled bellbird, so named for its patented clanging call. The Forest In The Clouds
- Clanging behind him on a tether was a large white suit, so bulky it was like a statue of some forgotten golem or perhaps an example of ancient deep-sea diving gear. Genesis Force