How to Use clack in a Sentence

clack

1 of 2 verb
Definition of clacknext
Synonyms for clacknext
  • I heard her heels clacking down the hall.
  • He clacked his teeth together.
  • The keys once again make a joyful click and clack with each press.
    — Michael Andronico, CNN Underscored, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The sea was shamelessly turquoise, the clouds feathery; the palm fronds clacked like castanets.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
  • Bellais used to climbing the stairwell from dog run to spa, nails clacking on the steps.
    — Alison Bowen, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2017
  • Renowned Lego artist Nathan Sawaya has gone from snapping bricks to clacking the keyboard.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2018
  • Antlers clacked on antlers, cartilage snapped, and the breath of three thousand animals rose over the fence.
    — Juliana Hanle, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2019
  • The bill clack from a giant pterosaur, one with a nine-foot-long skull, could have been deafening to a wide range of creatures at close range.
    — Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2022
  • Teachers talk about being warned against wearing shoes that clack and clothes that rustle.
    — Ann Doss Helms, charlotteobserver, 31 May 2018
  • Remember when a person would clack fresh pepper over your bowl of dish?
    — Nick Rallo, Dallas News, 1 July 2020
  • Peer pressure had brought me to this moment, clacking in my wooden sandals to the altar.
    — Sara Eckel, Longreads, 1 June 2018
  • The inner sanctum has long tables with dozens of tech people clacking away.
    — Ben Stewart, Popular Mechanics, 5 June 2018
  • Mission Beach The shriek of a roller coaster, rollerblades clacking down the boardwalk, and the ding of arcade games create the backdrop for your day at Mission Beach.
    — Karen Ruffini, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Some clacked away on the keyboards of their laptops, other scribbled notes on legal pads as many of the world’s top basketball prospects ran up and down the court in front of them.
    — Malika Andrews, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2018
  • Glasses clink and shakers clack as bartenders race to keep up with the thirsty crowd reclining on velvet sofas and drinking in the view.
    — Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2022
  • Prigozhina calls authoritatively as the agents’ heels clack on the glossy wood floors.
    — Curbed, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The clacking rattle of steel wheels on steel rails creates a lulling percussive soundtrack.
    — Patricia Harris and David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Scored to the sounds of heels clacking against marble, the runway presentation spoofed The Devil Wears Prada view of fashion.
    — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Some species will sashay and shimmy and shriek; others are more muted, satisfied to simply bow and nod, and click and clack their beaks together.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The movie also tries to understand Churchill through his use of language, with the sound of typewriters constantly clacking in the background.
    — Julie Bloom, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Maybe another little girl who loves football will walk past the Panthers practice fields one morning and hear the pads clacking.
    — Jourdan Rodrigue, charlotteobserver, 13 June 2018
  • There’s another wall of trees ahead, a tight window on the far side, beyond which everything is obscured, a rat’s nest of clacking timber.
    — Carson Vaughan, Outside Online, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Looking down from within the tunnel: Flashlights clack ON among the team, pointed up, seeking a sense of destination.
    — Noah Oppenheim, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2017
  • News flowed slowly before the internet age; teletype machines clacked out stories at 66 words per minute.
    — Jay Reeves, Fox News, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Madonna sings over slow-clacking drums and semi-poignant violins.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 3 July 2019
  • My hourlong train ride to the office in San Francisco offers a good routine: biking to the station, time for uninterrupted thought and email while the wheels and rails clack in rhythm, and a brisk walk to the office.
    — David Kopp, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2020
  • The words rang out like tiny little hammers clacking out your message…clear and uncomplicated.
    — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
  • Interfacing with a screen involved arms, hands, and fingers all in motion on clacking keyboards and roving mice.
    — WIRED, 19 Sep. 2023
  • One by one, the comments unfurled like clacking destinations on a train-departure board.
    — Jamie Lauren Keiles, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
  • The sport with the frenzied sweeping and clacking rocks has rules that literally require players to treat opponents with kindness.
    — Kristen Gelineau, chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2018
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clack

2 of 2 noun
  • Sergine could hear the clack of computer keys on the other end of the line.
    — Washington Post, 6 June 2020
  • Who wouldn't want to wear a cool hat, toot the whistle and clickety-clack down the tracks?
    — Richard Chin, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
  • The Williams sisters, with the click-and-clack hymn of their beads swinging from their hair?
    — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2022
  • Each clack of her keyboard adds to the case against Emily.
    — Elena Nicolaou, refinery29.com, 5 July 2019
  • The moment burned brightly with the clacks of flip phones and the snaps of fingertips.
    — Cassie Owens, Philly.com, 24 May 2018
  • The return trip was quieter, with the sun, the creaking cars and the steady click-clack of the train lulling many of the children, and some of the adults, to sleep.
    — New York Times, 11 June 2022
  • Thatched cottages line a lush ravine that winds up a valley alive with the clack of jackdaws.
    — The Economist, 4 Oct. 2019
  • It’s smartly done, though more could have been made of the rhythm of the heartbeat with the clickety-clack rhythm of a train in motion.
    — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 25 Sep. 2019
  • There’s a couple of things: one is the clickety-clack going up, with the safety locks.
    — Caroline Spivack, Curbed, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Plus, this song has such movement—almost like the clickety-clack of a train or the rubber tires on the rolling road.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Aug. 2020
  • The click-clack of Tonka’s hooves on the asphalt alerted bystanders to the masked horseman in their midst.
    — Alex Hawgood, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2019
  • As the coaster rises, the clickety-clack turns to screams and sparks in the night when the hydraulics securing the restraints fail.
    — Michael Lee Simpson, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Like sitting on the deck at the Dew Drop Inn in Edgewood with a book after work and listening to the click-clack of freight trains rolling by.
    — Washington Post, 8 July 2019
  • The usual click-clack chorus of the morning skate featured the sounds of drills, hammers, and at least one electric saw, not just those of skates and sticks.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2019
  • After all, you’re used to the daily rhythms and noises of your animal friend, like the clickety-clack of nails on your wood floor.
    — Lianna Bass, SELF, 7 July 2022
  • The only other sounds are from the sticks (some loud percussive clacks) or breathing.
    — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2018
  • The Commodores will compete in a game-like setting for the first half and likely play during a running clack in the second half.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Ultimately, you’re left with the ability to bring new ideas to life with the stroke of a pen (or, more likely, clack of a keyboard).
    — Ellen McAlpine, CNN Underscored, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Manville is steely and proper, and watching her clack through the house in her tasteful black heels is a kind of medicinal pleasure.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Her folding Ollie chair flattens with the yank of a cord, and a satisfying clack!
    — Jane Margolies, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
  • The sound of a newspaper office in those days was the clack-clacking of sturdy typewriters.
    — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2018
  • Fishermen hung their catch outside their homes, and every now and then there was the distinctive clack of mah-jongg tiles.
    — Lucas Peterson, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2016
  • Up on the hillside, a freight train clacks into view, blasts its whistle three times and then rolls toward a distant horizon.
    — Tim Layden, SI.com, 28 June 2019
  • There's also the sound of the keys to consider which ranges from ultra-quiet to what could be a comforting clickety-clack.
    — Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Skyscrapers were rising everywhere across the city, a neon tangle of signs and burnished steel, men in suits and women in high heels, click click clack.
    — Te-Ping Chen, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2020
  • The clickity-clack of typing quickly on a keyboard. 20.
    — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 29 Apr. 2015
  • Did the ox clack its hooves together, or chew its cud rhythmically?
    — Dave Barry, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2019
  • Throttle response is satisfyingly linear, and the gear lever clack-clacks across the open gate in trad Ferrari style.
    — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 16 Apr. 2022
  • In front and on display to the street is a lounge with Art Deco curves, where bartenders percussively clack shakers behind a long river of zinc.
    — New York Times, 10 July 2018
  • The rattling clickety clack of a skateboard rolling across concrete is music to the ears of novice and experienced skaters alike and no place is that sound heard more often than at a skate park.
    — Rebecca Treon, Chron, 29 Jan. 2023

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