How To Use Clanging In A Sentence
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The noise I do not leave behind; the clanging follows me.
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clanging metal
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Bells were clanging in the tower.
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A loud noise that sounded like the heavy doors opening and then clanging closed again came from behind her.
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But effective culture is not just about rock and roll, clanging cowbells, and dancing chickens.
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The court was a homely little room, with flowers in vases and pot plants on desks rather than scales of justice and clanging doors.
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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.
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Right and left parallel clanging ringing a doubledecker and a singledeck moved from their railheads, swerved to the down line, glided parallel. —
Ulysses
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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
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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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Framed by a mixed bag of submerged synth sounds and clanging chimes, the moody ‘Lover's Rock’ lumbers out of the gate before settling into a nice trot.
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Indeed, clanging bells offered some exhilaration to counter the drudgery of life spent in the fields.
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The pots and pans that dangled from her pack made a clanging noise, as they knocked together.
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Walking the Alps is definitely something to savour - mountains, meadows, clanging cowbells - what more could you want?
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The opening song bursts rudely into life, powered by clanging guitars and a fantastic, howling vocal.
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At some ungodly hour, Lutherans from all over the neighbourhood are summarily summoned to church by an extended barrage of random, vigorous and tuneless clanging.
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I'd managed to put the racket the England band is making out of mind, but Jen Welch mentioned it in passing and now all I can hear is their incessant parping and clanging.
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He woke up to hear the sound of bells clanging in the distance.
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Her head, like, totally hit the lockers on the walls with this loud clanging noise.
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She quickened her steps to catch up to him, her boots clanging dully on the metal gridwork.
Songs of Love & Death
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Thompson, said Frances Willard, “caught the universal ear and set the key of that mighty orchestra, organized with so much toil and hardship, in which the tender and exalted strain of the Crusade violin still soared aloft, but upborne now by the clanging cornets of science, the deep trombones of legislation, and the thunderous drums of politics and parties.”
LAST CALL
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This may stave off some of the symptoms, but you'll have to face the head-clanging, nerve-jangling fate of the seasoned boozehound sooner or later.
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As the herd gained momentum the bells on the lead cows rang out louder and the erratic clanging became a regular tolling.
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Robespierre's shrill voice was heard in disjected snatches, amidst the violent tones of Tallien, the yells of the president calling Robespierre to order, the murderous clanging of the bell.
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre
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They were only about twenty feet up, so they looked absolutely huge; I could hear the wind sighing in their pinions, and the way they were talking to each other quietly in metallic, clanging voices.
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Similarly, as with previous recordings, their latest opus is an effective mix of sprawling environmental textures, clanging, gritty percussion and humorous samples.
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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 du corps_ was involved, and the Guards are never backward in putting their gold down, as all the world knows.
Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
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For the best part of a century, that clanging sound signalled the abrupt end of an English night out.
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Years ago, you used to be able to walk past the workshops under the Westway from about April onwards and hear the clanging of steel drums being beaten into shape.
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A clanging of tailgates announced the arrival of the trucks that would carry the crews to the equipment shacks, and then to their aircraft.
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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?
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As the bell ceases its clanging on reaching the platform, he seems to pull his cap down purposely, and otherwise to gather himself into the plushy depths of his warm furs, he hires the first cabman that accosts him, shoves in his heavy valise, which is all the baggage he has, and in a gruff sort of voice, orders to be driven to the "Albion Hotel.
Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense
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The town looked like any deserted town, all boarded windows with a shutter or two clanging in the wind, various pieces of litter around, and a tumbleweed breezing past.
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The clanging of the bells is another curious circumstance.
Three Months in the Soudan
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The carpenter at his bench, the blacksmith by his forge, the boilermaker clanging and clattering, are all warbling more sweetly than you.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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He woke up to hear the sound of bells clanging in the distance.
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The clanging, detached, pointillistic economy of the piece up to this point becomes a frenzy of rhythmic vitality, winding down to a soft ending like an old watch.
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On one glorious windy afternoon, just as school let out, a coalhouse only two alleys away caught fire, and the fire truck that came clanging stuck fast and stood helplessly roaring, smothered in children, while two women in housecoats put out the fire with water from their mop pails.
The Dollmaker
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A sistrum is a type of rattle that produced a clanging metallic sound.
The Life of Meresamun: A Temple Singer in Ancient Egypt
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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?
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Following sunrise comes the clanging sound of scores of church bells, coupled with the crow of roosters from the adjacent Moslem Quarter.
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On the following morning, I was awakened by the clanging of doors and the activity of inmates serving food.
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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.
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Gone forever are the enormous key rings with the bunches of clanging keys carried by the prison officers.
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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
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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.
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The door swung shut behind them, clanging once more to tell of someone's departure.
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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
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The footsteps retreated quickly from inside her cell, the door clanging shut and the bolt scraped across the metal, signaling the door was locked.
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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
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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.
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He heard the fire bells clanging, and saw the horses running at full speed towards the financial district.
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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
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The piece concludes with a passage from the Georgian hymn Upalo Ghmerto - lovely but also undocumented - and clanging bells.
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He woke up to hear the sound of bells clanging in the distance.
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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
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He was carrying his hand bell by its clapper, and he shifted his grip to the handle and began clanging.
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In a moment of blind panic, I crashed through the back door, the door clanging on its frame as it snapped back into place.
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The clanging sound of metal on metal assaulted his ears.
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Those clanging bells reminded me of another vendor who used to make similar rounds in the neighbourhood.
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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.
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The clanging made Noddy pause for a moment which allowed Geoffrey to get out into the front path.
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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
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As the herd gained momentum the bells on the lead cows rang out louder and the erratic clanging became a regular tolling.
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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.
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At that second a trolley came hurtling by, heading downtown, its bell clanging loud.
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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.
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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
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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
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The spoon had been bent into such a shape that would provide louder clanging, and the pot was misshapen, being dented in many places.
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a clanging gong
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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
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Trees absorb the siren wails, clanging of trash cans, and other sounds of urban life.
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“All aboard,” the conductor yelled, clanging a handbell.
KNIGHTLEY ACADEMY
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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
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The spells make the appropriate zaps and sizzles, the explosions sound good, and the clanging of weapons on armor are realistic.
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For the best part of a century, that clanging sound signalled the abrupt end of an English night out.
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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.
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