How To Use Clunk In A Sentence

I believe the clunk was my rear diff. from the hard downshift?? NASIOC
Perhaps I've been corrupted by Photoshop, but regardless, the GIMP just feels unusably arcane and clunky. December 29th, 2007
The clunky village line is the only wrong note in a film composed of beautifully placed ones. Times, Sunday Times
A bereaved couple allow their dead son to be cloned by a sinister scientific institute in this clunking supernatural thriller. Times, Sunday Times
This program was a clunker from the get go ....... the government can't even get this right and they want us to trust them with our healthcare? 'Cash for clunkers' good through weekend, maybe beyond

Forget clunky mobiles and oversized tablets - wearable technology is the next frontier. Times, Sunday Times
He waved the man off dismissively and we all watched as his car clunked and rattled its way out of the parking lot.
Overseas manufacturers dominate in car sales, while U.S. companies have been stronger in the light truck segment. Cars outsold trucks 2-1 under the "clunker" initiative.
It overheated, it clunked, it smoked, stuttered, spluttered and on more than one occasion - blew up.
Even without the clunker boost, manufacturing has been one of the economy's few bright spots recently and a key to most optimistic economic forecasts.
Whereas ITV News - with their love of the clunkiest graphics, doom-laden links and love of the dropped intro 'It was ...' - seems to make The Day Today look sober and restrained ... Back to you in the Studio Fiona. Cluck Cluck.
For that reason, I always make sure my car is locked by listening for the quite loud clunking noise. Times, Sunday Times
The story covers much well-worn territory, and the dialogue can be clunky. Times, Sunday Times
In writing this review and consequently refreshing of my memory of all the episodes in this year, I was surprised to find so many clunkers in the midst.
It is a sign of how quickly technology can evolve that those desktops, once the sign of individual liberation, now seem somewhat clunky themselves.
We veer between a rivetingly fresh reinvention of a myth and some clunkier contemporary confrontation and despair. Times, Sunday Times
Some of the dialogue is clunky and dated, perhaps, and some of the plots just plain don't work, but apart from some poorly reproduced art, these collections would be cheap at twice the price.
Although, then again, if her press people had had the chance to review the article, perhaps they could have prevented this clunker from appearing.
It includes nonsense about not raking up lawn clippings, using fluorescent light bulbs and getting your old clunker of a car tuned more often.
More often than not scenes feel forced and clunky, as the characters none too subtly have to crowbar in the next crucial revelation, or narrative device.
Even her buoyant presence fails to keep this cinematic clunker from sinking.
He heard a'weird clunking noise - as if a bird had flown straight into the propeller. The Sun
That is one of the better moments in filmed science fiction and Darabont nails his critique of the clunky VO. Frank Darabont Hates The Blade Runner Voice-Over
I tried to slow my breathing as I listened to my mother's footsteps clunking up the stairs.
Somewhere around Parliament House, the rattle turned to a clunk.
The dialogue is sparse and when the characters do speak, it's clunkily written, laden with insipid profundities, and often badly delivered.
Ditch the summer's clunky ethnic beads for lady-like pearls, vintage jewellery, an old-fashioned handbag, leather gloves and a flash of stocking.
Yes, once again, it was the same Ian Judge staging, an animated, fluent show that mixes up 18th-century period niceties and '50s culture - a tippling Countess languishes on her bed dialing a big, clunky, corded phone, the men at times wear britches and stockings with their buckled clodhoppers, later choosing modern-day suits. Donna Perlmutter: Postino and Figaro: Underclass Heroes Who Usher in L.A. Opera's 25th Season
Sixteen songs, and not a clunker amongst them, really is an embarrassment of riches and will surely bring this gifted singer songwriter the audience he deserves.
He clunked the lemonades on the coffee table, sat down next to her.
I winced in pain, so distracted by his intensity that I was deaf to the clunking of boots on the concrete floor.
My older brothers would clunk along the deck above, hauling on lines, and shouting to each other in the wind as they struggled to douse the flapping sails.
Some clunky dialogue aside, it represents a return to form for Allen. Times, Sunday Times
From the rattles and clunks it's difficult to tell what's happening, but I switch on the cassette recorder in case.
We can also potentially eliminate the risks that come with silly fabric-looking costumes, and clunkier, leather-based costume alternatives. GREEN LANTERN’s Suit Goes Digital « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
Feldstein also criticizes the temporary subsidy for new car buyers "cash for clunkers" as "misguided," but in an opinion piece in the Washington Post on Jan. 29, 2009 , he proposed a "temporary refundable tax credit to households that purchase cars or other major consumer durables. Debating Professor Feldstein's Proposals on Stimulus
You HATE the book, or the first sentence has glaring grammatical errors, or the whole point of the book is obtuse and lost in clunky prose. UPDATES - and Clowns With Big Signs...and stuff.
The pilot walked in after the three clunks had sounded.
The dialogue is self-consciously clunky, the characters are stereotypes and each section is fronted with a pretentiously redundant quotation.
SANDUSKY - The owner of a small group of auto dealerships in Sandusky has found a creative use for more than 100 of its "cash for clunkers" clunkers while he waits for the government to hold up its end of the bargain. Undefined
Well, the user interface is a bit slow and clunky and not very intuitive, considering you have to figure out how the game works on your own. The Sun
Where can you offload your clunky old computer or worn-out armchair? Times, Sunday Times
A plate sank to the bottom of the sink, where it made a dull clunk.
The air conditioner was an old window rattler that continuously clunked, banged and leaked water everywhere.
The cover had slid closed after that, clunking down securely.
The camera was a clunky snap-in piece. Globe and Mail
Design geeks have since given this idea a clunky name: so-called skeuomorphic user interfaces. Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
Imagine the muffled sound of a banjo being clunked, insistently and arhythmical, through the paper-thin walls of a tract home, of a song being played so slowly that any melody was indecipherable.
Gone are the towering heels of last summer, to be replaced by thick-tongued brogues, clunky flatforms and Birkenstock-style sandals.
There is a clunky, inelegant quality to these objects that is matched by the deliberately crude quality of the plywood tables and shelves on which they rest.
A palpable ‘clunk’ during either maneuver is considered a strongly positive sign for dislocation of the hip.
Both the clutch and the gears have been cleverly engineered with extra, added machismo so that you can really feel the meshing of gears when you clunk the six-speeder around its gate.
The prose is never clunky, extraneously verbose or bogged down with disposition; the writing is neither grand nor pedestrian and the fact that everything comes at seemingly the righ moment (i.e. perfect pace) makes for a smooth and enjoyable read. Archive 2009-01-01
Luckily, my wife heard it "clunk" in the washing machine and pulled it to safety - but it got wet. Wednesday Giveaway – $25 iTunes Gift Card and iPhone Case | Manolith
He had seen an ad for an old clunker, a `75 Renault going for #400, but even that seemed too much. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
It is also filled with unintentional clunkers that elicited inappropriate but inevitable laughs in this reviewer's living room.
The air around him slowly grew warmer, and he began to hear the heavy clunk and crunch of metal slabs grinding together.
The mythos upon which this movie hangs is admittedly a tad clunky from a Western standpoint - though it makes for a perfectly serviceable Eastern legend. As pilfered from my friends list
But he is bogged down by a terrible script - crammed with all that is clunky, cutesy and phoney - and surrounded by actors giving turns of pure ordure.
Hit the link for other tips on knowing when your clunker is past its prime. Wednesday, October 29, 2008 | Lifehacker Australia
The stimulus package also includes a car scrappage scheme similar to the "cash for clunkers" programme being debated in the US Congress.
There are all sorts of musical and lyrical details like this throughout the album, but it doesn't make all of the songs great - there are a number of genuine clunkers and some smaller disappointments.
That interface is somewhat clunkier but it is far better defined. Matthew Yglesias » The End of Hierarchical File Systems
The dialogue is clunkily over-earnest, the characters and socio-political background sketchy. Times, Sunday Times
This featherlight farce has one of the oldest, clunkiest plots in cinema. Times, Sunday Times
It's particularly over-used with any footage of somebody who looks slightly snooty buying things, and much loved by any programme-maker who's clunkily attempting to make an ironic point. The Guardian World News
Barclays Capital analyst Brian Johnson suggests the fast start of the "clunker" initiative and strong prospects for extended funding could accelerate automaker plans for production increases.
I received a call from a customer one day asking if his hard drive could be upgraded to a higher gig drive (his old one was clunking and making noise).
The storyline is a bit clunky, but it's not a documentary! Times, Sunday Times
The first generation of online Americans were technophiles who had enough money to acquire clunky desktops and snail-paced 14.4 modems.
Often, their very human needs come across as clunky impediments to economic progress.
Mother came clunking up the stairs, and yelled, before she had to open the door.
He glosses word-bomb, which he admits is a ‘clunky construction’, at arm's length.
What is, on paper, a primarily interior experience, stumbles on film with a clunky visual style that remains merely literal instead of challengingly literary.
A few truly compelling works were generated, but also several mediocre ones, along with a couple of real clunkers.
What works worst is using the technique as a clunky dissolve to segue between scenes.
The webmail system is the clunkiest thing I have ever seen. How Do Your University’s Online Services Rate? | Lifehacker Australia
Ready to get out of that old clunker and slide into a shiny new car?
Her head clunked back against the post.
Where does the money come from for Tarp (Treasury's program to buy bad bank paper), the stimulus handouts and the cash for clunkers?
The clunky village line is the only wrong note in a film composed of beautifully placed ones. Times, Sunday Times
It's shot in a clunky retro-futurist style, and the director declares himself influenced by Fritz Lang, filling his screen with eerie, gigantic hardware shot in mouldy, decaying, soft-focus sepia.
The sound of desks clunking and the shuffling of feet against the linoleum, filled her ears, as she got her materials organized and finally went to the front of the class.
We've all been through that horrid process of buying clunkers from guys in slick suits and even slicker haircuts.
A clunky plot and terrible dialogue are redeemed by some breathtaking visuals. Times, Sunday Times
There are some really clunky recording devices.
It includes nonsense about not raking up lawn clippings, using fluorescent light bulbs and getting your old clunker of a car tuned more often.
With a satisfying clunk, the gimbal fitting slotted into the wide butt pad.
The afternoon before the dance you couldn't get a hair appointment anywhere in the five towns and all the white stretch limos were rented just like it was the prom, though not the old clunky black ones. The Majesties
The north park is home to a couple of tiny ponds, traversed by bridges festooned with clunky metal turtles designed by a local artist.
It was all just a bit clunky and strange and not actually that much fun. Times, Sunday Times
This "like"- and "as"-riddled prose is strangely exhausting - and clunky when the metaphors don't work: "the bridge of her nose as straight and tall as a chopstick standing at attention. Book World: Lionel Shriver reviews Yan Lianke's 'Dream of Ding Village'
A clunking old metal elevator struggled to make its way to the ground floor, then grudgingly opened its doors to allow myself and a frazzled woman to embark.
It's a shame that there are several clunkers mixed with such strong material - they had enough good tunes to release a much more solid album.
The clunky beat suddenly gives way to a choir and symphony.
It was not so much the hand of history as the great clunking fist that hit Westminster at 5pm yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
I blame much of this stagnation on the label itself, a clunky portmanteau that suggests the collision rather than integration of ‘folk’ and ‘electronic’ music.
But like the vast majority of their poems, the film is earnest, naive and little bit clunky. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, with its old-fashioned approach to animation, it looks clunky in comparison to some of its competitors.
Familiar, yes, but substandard, like going back to drive the old clunker of a car you used to own before you could finally afford something brand new.
But the flipping is a little clunky and so another time, I'd make individual cakes. Beet Röesti ♥ | A Veggie Venture
Mid-way through his remarks, the presidential seal came undone from the front of the rostrum and fell to the floor of the stage with a clunk loudly amplified by the president's microphone. Presidential Seal Falls During Obama Speech At Fortune Magazine 'Most Powerful Women Summit' (VIDEO)
It scraped only a few inches against the slipway, then plugged into the bomber's receptacle with a satisfied ch-clunk! CHAINS OF COMMAND
Essentially it is a clunky but well-meaning attempt to humanise a well-loved figure. Times, Sunday Times
‘It's him,’ she said crisply setting her bag down on the ground with a heavy clunk as the new binders connected with the ground through the fabric.
In places the dialogue is so clunky that wincing is involuntary. Times, Sunday Times
Sure, there were a few clunkers in their discography, but one couldn't deny their innate ability to craft such dark, soulful, rock songs.
Instead of a clunky, abstract system where you get “+5 to harvesting” or “+10 to sword smithing”, representations of ore or sword pieces can get moved around the screen, showing the player in a general sense what is going on. with the right mentality, mini-games can be even more true to the world than another approach. MMOG Nation » Mini-Gaming For Fun and Profit
A bereaved couple allow their dead son to be cloned by a sinister scientific institute in this clunking supernatural thriller. Times, Sunday Times
He shook his head and almost expected to hear the sound of something clunking around.
Which is a pity, considering how horrid, clunky and dated they all are.
Huge great gig-lamps with clunkingly heavy frames and they were all wearing them, from John Sessions as a doleful Geoffrey Howe to Michael Maloney as a quietly manipulative John Major. Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
The characterisation is rudimentary and the prose sometimes clunky. The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle – review
I got in and tried to start the truck, but all I got was a loud clunk from the starter.
The answer, surprisingly, is a great clunking fist to his jaw. Times, Sunday Times
But in all honesty I'm just glad for the fact that the movie is not the cast-iron clunker it could've been.
The script is clunky in places, but with a cast like this you hardly notice. Times, Sunday Times
Clogs are heavy, clunky, and fall off under duress.
It was so heavy, that when I tried to pick it up, it just clunked onto the ground and wouldn't budge.
At the same time, one should note that their presentation on spreadsheets produced with sundry software, is slightly primitive and ‘clunky.’
Although I still found the six-speed gearbox a bit clunky at low speeds. The Sun
A bereaved couple allow their dead son to be cloned by a sinister scientific institute in this clunking supernatural thriller. Times, Sunday Times
Something landed with a dull clunk in front her.
Curling into a ball to protect himself as debris tinked and clunked to the ground beside him, Gillespie folded his arms over his head. Etched in Bone
A bereaved couple allow their dead son to be cloned by a sinister scientific institute in this clunking supernatural thriller. Times, Sunday Times
She plays a pregnant girl training to become a mechanic, and the clunky boots she's wearing today are being broken in for the shoot.
Admittedly, they can be a bit clunky, lyrically. Times, Sunday Times
I can imagine Max getting clunked on the head by the 12 foot table. 7th Street Apartment Interior by Pulltab Design
The desktop software that manages the scanner is clunky, and feeding a film strip requires that you insert it into a slot just right.
Facts are deployed with the famous clunking fist. Times, Sunday Times
While the Nikon J1, which features a clean retro-style design, won the most oohs and ahhs from friends, the Sony NEX-5N, whose larger sensor requires slightly larger and clunkier lenses, made it easier to figure out how to make photos more interesting. Cameras Act Like a Pro, but Are as Easy as Pie
Berating Jews with their own history, disinheriting them of pity, as though pity is negotiable or has a sell-by date, is the latest species of Holocaust denial, infinitely more subtle than the David Irving version with its clunking body counts and quibbles over gas-chamber capability and chimney sizes. Howard Jacobson speaks his mind
But I bought the Special edition of the first imac and bought an emac both of which seem pretty big and clunky, but I have been able to upgrade them to OSX Leopard and Tiger and they perform beautifully. How Apple Is Preparing for an iPod Slump - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
But I'm not blind to it's clunky bits; it goes a little Hollywood in the end, that awkward line at the end about "escalation" is pure next movie set-up that sticks out like a sore thumb. The Dark Knight
I shove aside a pile of dehydrated red and black typewriter ribbons and set my machine down with a clunk.
Indo-European, a term coined in the early nineteenth century, is clunky. The English Is Coming!
The thing about the Kindle is that it is quite clunky, which is perhaps an odd thing to say about a product so new on the market. AllAfrica News: Latest
Not only did he anticipate Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, and set out a finite axiomatization of arithmetic before Peano did, and the basis axiomatic set theory before Zermelo did, but also his notation and terminology were readable and suggestive, giving future logicians a better language to work in than the clunky terms of the Germans. Pragmatic inquiry
I watched her drive away in her clunky little junker, waving and wearing this frozen smile like the one on her driving licence.
NBC hasn't put much at risk, having purchased this clunker from a Canadian/French film partnership. 'XIII' isn't unlucky, it's just bad
Downloading a movie is still a clunky affair that can take a few hours, and only 27 % of the country's 66 million online homes have the superfast broadband connections to do it.
The girls were wearing them along with fat clunky shoes that looked like malformed elevator shoes from the seventies.
Clunk clunk clunk went the footsteps overhead.
The concept of farming out large pieces of this clunky IT infrastructure is not new. Times, Sunday Times
After all, if "serviceable" vehicles today are decommissioned for lack of parts due to the cash for clunkers program, isn't that covert stimulus, even if it comes at the expense of used-parts salvagers? Obsolescence Is Often
It's disconcertingly riddled with inconsistent spellings, clunky syntax and other editing botches.
The old, noisy fans and ancient clunky light switches are gone.
The movie business is bound to turn out clunkers.
But it's scuppered by clunky dialogue and a needlessly convoluted plot. Times, Sunday Times
The somewhat clunky term 'multimodal' summed it up. Times, Sunday Times
The result was admirable if a slightly clunkier version. Times, Sunday Times
In its clunky realism and breathless romanticism, Looking at the Landscape strikes me as a real stunner, part late Balthus, but more importantly, part proto-John Currin.
The hardware design felt "clunky" -- especially the flimsy-feeling sliding of the touchscreen, needed to reveal the keyboard underneath. LinuxInsider
The clunky village line is the only wrong note in a film composed of beautifully placed ones. Times, Sunday Times
A clunky plot and terrible dialogue are redeemed by some breathtaking visuals. Times, Sunday Times
The lyrics intermittently scan as clunkily as the predictable doggerel people send in to newspapers' obituary sections.
On the band's four-song demo, only one song is a clunker, overdoing the keyboards so that they sound like a wild vibraphone.
A lot of old advertising - still or moving - just looks clunky or kitsch as the years roll by.
A good example for me, just because it's something I'm very familiar with, is Bach's solo violin sonatas... the sonatas are really difficult to play, and some of them I just feel are so beautifully composed and others are a little clunkier. Daniel J. Kushner: Ecstatic Music Festival Interview #4: Owen Pallett
He had a copy of The Sun sticking out his back pocket and huge sovereign rings clunked on his fingers. Baby Blue
It was not so much the hand of history as the great clunking fist that hit Westminster at 5pm yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
But moving to the cutting edge of PC technology often creates a problem - what to do with the old clunker.
Another handshake, to start timing for billing purposes, caused a second set of clunks when the called party answered.
He shut the van door with a clunk.
Yeoh is noble but detached; Thewlis, though he tries hard, is miscast in the kind of role Jim Broadbent has patented; and, worst of all, the couple's two boys are given the clunkiest, least realistic lines in the movie another theme of this festival has been parent-children relationships, and The Lady pales next to Alexander Payne's The Descendants in this respect. The Lady – review
Giving them a moment to embrace, he stepped forward toward them, steel boots clunking against the floor with great dramatic effect.
I could easily get away with wearing some clunky shoes and hair wouldn't be a problem whatsoever.
The telephones are clunky, the colors are brown, the cars are funky jalopies.
These protective garments are generally also festooned with wands of office: besmeared stethoscopes draped around the neck, clunky paging devices clipped to the belt, and an array of well chewed ballpoint pens poking forlornly from the breast and hip pockets. Cri de coeur
Accustomed to managing their personal lives with the latest and most-innovative technology tools, people are becoming less patient with the older, clunkier hardware and software they have to use at work. Should Employees Be Allowed to Use Their Own Devices for Work?
Owners of other smartphones can navigate to the firm's mobile website and enjoy similar, though clunkier, features. Times, Sunday Times
With that, they caught the swoosh of a sliding door and the clunk and clatter of someone stumbling about the dressing room - on the other side of the wall.
We all have peeves but the search for something new can yield far clunkier results. Times, Sunday Times
The air around him slowly grew warmer, and he began to hear the heavy clunk and crunch of metal slabs grinding together.
From the outside, the car seems built to the highest quality, so the lack of a satisfactory clunk when the door closes are slightly disappointing.
The dialogue is clunky, but the low-budget action still impresses. Times, Sunday Times
But it's scuppered by clunky dialogue and a needlessly convoluted plot. Times, Sunday Times
Hearty Aussie reds like the latter go happily in a sangria-style mix - slip a couple of orange slices into each glass and add a whoosh of soda water, a clunk of ice-cubes and a slug of brandy if it's raining.
But the IT industry has had more than its fair share of clunkers.
The script is a real clunker, featuring dialogue so inept one is tempted to suspect the screenwriter died early in the process.
I recall the clunky, ugly pages I wrought through those lessons — it gave me a feeling of power not dissimilar to my 1979 experiments with a TI-99 running BASIC, when I commanded the ones and zeroes to: How I stopped worrying and learned to build a Web site « The Retort
He dumped it all on the floor with an assortment of thumps and clunks.
Step inside: the doors have the clunk of a well-built car; the seats have lovely back rests.
There followed the sound of a chair falling over and a metallic clunk as an ash tray tumbled to the stone floor.
A gentle drumbeat begins clunking out of the speakers, along with a simple, tinny, synthesized melody.
Some have been too fat, too bulky, too clunky, or too inaccurate to be a successful pretender to the throne.
Why wasn't he there, clunking fist gripping a frying pan? Times, Sunday Times
And even her clunkiest lines at times have a weird fascination. 2009 January 22 « One-Minute Book Reviews
Installed on a laptop, it takes the place of many pieces of antiquated and clunky video gear that were formerly needed to ensure high quality video recording.
The great clunking fist has struck again, or almost. Times, Sunday Times
TPM merchandise did try to reach out to the princess crowd with a few amidala dolls, but perhaps besides being clunky, it was too exotic not fitting the general princess merchandise mold with full face make-up, elaborate headpieces instead of just hair styles, and not enough gowns to wear to a ball. Lucasfilm prepping CGI animated fairy musical?
I watched her drive away in her clunky little junker, waving and wearing this frozen smile like the one on her driving licence.
On top of all this, there is some amazingly clunky dialogue that must be heard to be believed.
Some, however, look clunkier than others, so choose a style relevant for the occasion; espadrilles are great for the beach, but they're not necessarily suitable for the office.
I watched her drive away in her clunky little junker, waving and wearing this frozen smile like the one on her driving licence.
The shop was noisy and busy even at this hour; a collator clattered, copiers whirred and clunked, phones rang, and somebody — Charlie? There's Something In A Sunday
It aspires to be like Skins, but the clunky dialogue lets it down. Times, Sunday Times
Alas, he wrote in a valedictory note, not even the punchiest movie critic could hope to compete "with the vast advertising techniques that ensure a mass audience" for clunker after clunker. I Found it at the Movies: Reflections of a Cinephile by Philip French – review
One of her friends had an old clunker he was fixing up.
It can also be fun to modernize an old clunker, particularly if you're the type who likes to tinker.

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