clanging

[ UK /klˈæŋɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɫæŋɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having a loud resonant metallic sound
    the clangorous locomotive works
    a clanging gong
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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
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