(n.) A sharp, brief, ringing sound, made by a collision of metallic or other sonorous bodies; -- usually expressing a duller or less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink.
(v. t.) To cause to sound with a clank; as, the prisoners clank their chains.
(v. i.) To sound with a clank.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lee Young-pyo executes an elaborate series of stepovers down the left - Cristiano Ronaldo eat your heart out - but just as he looks to have Maxi Pereira beaten, he lets the ball clank off his shin and out of play.
(2) Repeated noise at 1-4 cycles per second evokes an effortless heard rhythmic sensation which is often heard as "clanks" and "rasping."
(3) Muller then slides a ball into the area for Muller, who breaks clear with only Romero to beat, but lets the ball clank off his shin and towards Romero.
(4) In Houston, on any given day, entomologists can be found clanking open manhole covers, wading into ditches or walking through backyards of obliging residents.
(5) 78 min: That could have made things at least a little bit interesting: A clever reverse ball by Benzema releases Grosso down the left-hand side of the Rangers box, but the World Cup winning left-back lets the ball clank hopelessly off his shins and out of play.
(6) The ball clanks off the middle of the left-hand post, in super slow-motion technicolor, Rene Houseman hacks clear, and 51 seconds later, the referee blows the final whistle.
(7) The fourth season of Game of Thrones is looming like an armour-clanking phalanx, ready to maraud into your social life from 7 April onwards.
(8) 8.05pm BST 4 min: ... clank an idiotic effort straight into the wall.
(9) Giroud meets the set piece, but clanks a header well wide.
(10) It's not a great effort, but it clanks into the legs of Giroud, and the striker - just onside when the shot was taken - is suddenly one on one with Stockdale!
(11) The sound of their clanking on the metal floor of the blocks in Camp Delta is still fresh in my mind.
(12) The home team won 8-2 in an eerie atmosphere where foul balls clanked around empty grandstands and mammoth home runs were received in silence.
(13) Cameron and Clegg were more brutal and direct – in keeping with the clanking sounds emanating from the factory floor.
(14) Inside, however, the tiny store smells like smoke and echoes with the electronic clank of four video slot machines that occupy about a third of the floor space.
(15) Then, the wealthiest citizens clanked champagne flutes to their own good fortunes, while the majority of the population struggled in the proverbial alleyways.
(16) A deeper conundrum is that while crowdfunding is happy-clappy on the outside, inside beats the libertarian free-market clank of the Silicon Valley culture in which it was forged.
(17) Juan Mata's delivery is poor and enables Yayya Toure to go on one of his clanking runs down the pitch.
(18) Out of the corner of my eye I saw the motorbike clank over and skid a long way.
(19) They would be increasingly propelled into a world system already clanking away at full speed.
(20) The rain was pattering against the old windows, the steam heat was clanking in the old radiator, and I felt at peace.
Clanking
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clank
Example Sentences:
(1) Lee Young-pyo executes an elaborate series of stepovers down the left - Cristiano Ronaldo eat your heart out - but just as he looks to have Maxi Pereira beaten, he lets the ball clank off his shin and out of play.
(2) Repeated noise at 1-4 cycles per second evokes an effortless heard rhythmic sensation which is often heard as "clanks" and "rasping."
(3) Muller then slides a ball into the area for Muller, who breaks clear with only Romero to beat, but lets the ball clank off his shin and towards Romero.
(4) In Houston, on any given day, entomologists can be found clanking open manhole covers, wading into ditches or walking through backyards of obliging residents.
(5) 78 min: That could have made things at least a little bit interesting: A clever reverse ball by Benzema releases Grosso down the left-hand side of the Rangers box, but the World Cup winning left-back lets the ball clank hopelessly off his shins and out of play.
(6) The ball clanks off the middle of the left-hand post, in super slow-motion technicolor, Rene Houseman hacks clear, and 51 seconds later, the referee blows the final whistle.
(7) The fourth season of Game of Thrones is looming like an armour-clanking phalanx, ready to maraud into your social life from 7 April onwards.
(8) 8.05pm BST 4 min: ... clank an idiotic effort straight into the wall.
(9) Giroud meets the set piece, but clanks a header well wide.
(10) It's not a great effort, but it clanks into the legs of Giroud, and the striker - just onside when the shot was taken - is suddenly one on one with Stockdale!
(11) The sound of their clanking on the metal floor of the blocks in Camp Delta is still fresh in my mind.
(12) The home team won 8-2 in an eerie atmosphere where foul balls clanked around empty grandstands and mammoth home runs were received in silence.
(13) Cameron and Clegg were more brutal and direct – in keeping with the clanking sounds emanating from the factory floor.
(14) Inside, however, the tiny store smells like smoke and echoes with the electronic clank of four video slot machines that occupy about a third of the floor space.
(15) Then, the wealthiest citizens clanked champagne flutes to their own good fortunes, while the majority of the population struggled in the proverbial alleyways.
(16) A deeper conundrum is that while crowdfunding is happy-clappy on the outside, inside beats the libertarian free-market clank of the Silicon Valley culture in which it was forged.
(17) Juan Mata's delivery is poor and enables Yayya Toure to go on one of his clanking runs down the pitch.
(18) Out of the corner of my eye I saw the motorbike clank over and skid a long way.
(19) They would be increasingly propelled into a world system already clanking away at full speed.
(20) The rain was pattering against the old windows, the steam heat was clanking in the old radiator, and I felt at peace.