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US
/ˈkɫæʃɪŋ/
]
[ UK /klˈæʃɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /klˈæʃɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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sharply and harshly discordant
clashing interests of loggers and conservationists
clashing colors
How To Use clashing In A Sentence
- She wears a thick flowery hairband, several clashing necklaces and a quite revolting hairy purple cardigan with batwing sleeves.
- In the fields outside of Darik, the pure sound of two clashing swords rang out.
- But round about the Iland, for the space of 7. or 8. moneths in a yere there floateth ise, making a miserable kind of mone, and not vnlike to mans voice, by reason of the clashing together. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
- The immense man, brandishing his recovered certificates, plunged forward to encounter them, shouting in Arabic, hustled them back, kicked them, struck at the camels with a stick till those in front receded upon those behind and the street was blocked by struggling beasts and resounded with roaring snarls, the thud of wooden bales clashing together, and the desperate protests of the camel-drivers, one of whom was sent rolling into a noisome dust heap with his turban torn from his head. The Garden of Allah
- The design challenges come in giving these bold evergreens enough shoulder room and keeping their flower colors from clashing.
- Take for instance, his cantata: the use of pizzicato, or plucking strings, to express the clashing of swords.
- Pair a tropical tee with this skirt and get clashing those prints. Times, Sunday Times
- There's no excuse for wearing this many styles and clashing colours at once. The Sun
- They watched as the two fighters kept moving, their swords clashing.
- Bells you gave me, bells of victory, bells of merriment, yellow and green; cloches clashing, swaggering braggarts, helmets agleam coppery red.