(v. t.) To strike together so as to produce a ringing metallic sound.
(v. i.) To give out a clang; to resound.
(n.) A loud, ringing sound, like that made by metallic substances when clanged or struck together.
(n.) Quality of tone.
Example Sentences:
(1) So we looped them into the reel-to-reels and crowded round the speakers to hear what their album sounded like – but all we got was the clang of a snare drum.
(2) This struck a loud, clanging chord with a disenchanted British public – half of whom heard the speech – and 93% of those approved of its message, which when boiled down was just an appeal for greater individual effort to win the war.
(3) Outside the tax ministry, drum-banging, bell-clanging protesters from the Anti-Raider League of Entrepreneurs, an anti-corruption group, alleged that crooked officials from the previous administration had merely been shuffled around.
(4) Over in Green Bay, though, Mason Crosby just clanged a long one off the right-hand upright.
(5) Fred VanVleet's three-pointer for the win just clanged out, ending their unbeaten season in the most painful manner possible at 35-1.
(6) As the tumbleweed rolled in and out of shot … somewhere in the distance a forlorn sounding church bell clanged.
(7) 8.25pm BST The last lap The bell clangs to herald the ultimate lap of the 100th Tour de France.
(8) "You'd almost see sparks and hear anvils clanging."
(9) Perhaps surprisingly, The Clanging of the Swords IV is the work of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis), the extremist jihadist group that has led the insurgency against the authoritarian Iraqi government in recent weeks, and which runs parts of northern Syria.
(10) There was this terrible clang of falling steel and then me, drenched in the blood of my two children.
(11) The clang of an approaching train's warning to pedestrians to get off the open tracks has become part of the city's soundtrack, along with the constant honking of car horns, the five-times-a-day Muslim call to prayer, the occasional peal of church bells and the Friday afternoon siren that marks the start of the Jewish sabbath.
(12) This shameful betrayal of humanity in the face of mass suffering must stop Another detainee recounts details of the “welcome party” – the terrifying initiation ceremony that awaited new arrivals, fresh off one of the “meat fridge” trucks used to transport prisoners, clueless to their whereabouts until the doors clanged open.
(13) Mannone races out of his area to clang the ball into the stand.
(14) A phrase like "Catholic child" or "Muslim child" should clang furious bells of protest in the mind, just as we flinch when we hear "one man one vote".
(15) There's no jarring clang of citrus heavyweights here: they really do chime.
(16) That great steel and aluminium beast, the Land Rover Defender, and its ancestors have been clanging and clunking their way off the production line at Solihull since 1948.
(17) The towering Scot who plays Sandor "the Hound" Clegane – foremost sword-swinging badass in a series not lacking on that front – is in LA for a Game Of Thrones premiere and goblet-clanging celebratory shindig, along with 23 other stars from the show.
(18) The people feel angry towards the government,” he said, speaking in a small wooden office as he marked pupils’ report books and a school bell clanged outside.
(19) We haven't even switched the Dictaphone on when the anecdotes start tumbling out, the biggest names clanging to the floor as they go.
(20) Yet this regressive goal is accompanied by a hypermodern propaganda machine that sees Isis's sadistic attacks promoted by a slick social media operation, a specially designed app – and well-made videos like The Clanging of the Swords IV.
Clung
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Cling
() imp. & p. p. of Cling.
(v. i.) Wasted away; shrunken.
Example Sentences:
(1) Looking pale and drawn, he says: “We are trying to find out where he is, which hospital, but everything is very difficult here … I am trying, but it is difficult.” Hussain, speaking outside the makeshift field hospital run by medical charity Médicins du Monde, says his cousin Sadiq suffered serious head and chest injuries as the pair clung on to a moving train in the early hours of the morning.
(2) We were naive, no doubt, but the whole world was naive with us Omar Robert Hamilton But the power of the spectacle faded, the urgency of revolution grew weaker, our enemies regrouped and the elites prepared for elections as we clung ever more to the vanishing unknown.
(3) This meant that the oil, too, flowed in, and when the floods receded they left a ring of black crude around this particular field, and the thick gunk still clung to the blades of grass.
(4) The train now trundles through silent stations, its wagons free of the crowds of men, women and children who once clung to roofs and ladders.
(5) The idea that any woman can represent all women is clung to, even though it's reductive and absurd.
(6) She has survived the shark tank of commercial theatre, earned a lot, lost a lot (her company still owes about £8m), yet somehow clung on to her charm.
(7) Most of the wounded were moved initially to a local hospital where terrified women and children clung to each other, waiting for news of relatives.
(8) Despite the backlash Hollande clung to the principle of the supertax even after it was dismissed by the country’s highest court, fearing a revolt by his leftwing allies.
(9) Throughout most of that time, he clung on to the cities portfolio.
(10) The truth is that dogma is, if anything, clung to even more tightly in London than in Brussels, and its grip has to be broken in both.
(11) For those who believe in the survival of the fittest, the only surprise was that this apparently lumbering, dozy and sexually inadequate species had clung on for so long.
(12) The membrane clung to the cell wall even after obliteration of most of the intracellular structure.
(13) That, of course, was why Redgrave clung on so tight.
(14) Personally, I believe that Hayek irrationally clung to a notion of natural order – what he called "spontaneous order" – that blinded him to the humanly-constructed nature of the wealth distributions that occur under conditions that he called "competitive".
(15) Labour was not.” The third theme is the importance of reaching out to England, especially to voters who don’t live in the English towns where Labour clung on in the election.
(16) The other boy had clung to the undercarriage of a lorry to enter the UK.
(17) He clung to his argument that it would be premature to comment until investigations had run their course.
(18) One of the believers said he had clung to the notion of a cosmic end of the world since his father died.
(19) They weren't students of the music, but clung to it as unselfconsciously and with the same desperate energy as their mass audiences.
(20) Some members clung to “#NeverTrump” sympathies even after his run on the Hill.