clangor

How To Use clangor In A Sentence

• The clangor of honking cars and the maddening din of a thousand engines almost drive me to vertigo.
• 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.
• Industrial progress in Chicago produced loud sounds, whether the thrum of machinery, the clangor of busy loading docks, or the cries of brawny laborers.
• Grimaud's ability to evoke both sensitive tonal shadings and clangorous dissonance made this movement an overwhelming experience.
• Rarely do I descend to that cauldron of hissing pipes and clangor of which so few are aware — am I blessed or cursed to have discovered it within? The Indolent Magician (II)
• ‘Ah - Miss Corel,’ he greeted her charmingly, ignoring the clangor of alarms and frantic shouts from outside.
• ‘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.
• He could hear the hundred gates of Thebes closing on him with a great metallic clangor. THEBES OF THE HUNDRED GATES
• the clangorous locomotive works
• Emerson really means to ‘accept,’ as he puts it, ‘the clangor and jangle of contrary tendencies’.