How to Use clunk in a Sentence

clunk

1 of 2 verb

• The bone seemed to clunk in but then kept slipping out again.
  — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2015
• And then watch another person shoot a 3-pointer and clunk it off the rim?
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 30 May 2022
• Finally, the sound of locks clunking open, followed by a face in the doorway.
  — Chris Ballard, SI.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• Then through the San Joaquin river delta, clunking over bridges and past houseboats.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 29 June 2019
• The artful heel is definitely not to be worn clunking down the stairs of the C train.
  — Rebecca Ramsey, The Cut, 19 Oct. 2017
• The Broncos are either rolling or clunking along, depending on your point of view.
  — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2025
• If the wind was blowing out, the ball might very well have clunked off the gigantic scoreboard that's now perched atop the ivy for a game-turning grand slam.
  — Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2018
• Candi Staton heard doors clunk open, and several pairs of footsteps approach.
  — David Gambacorta, Longreads, 13 July 2022
• Clanking and clunking against a group as deep and polished as UConn was a recipe befitting a school lunchroom.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2024
• Doors clunk reassuringly, trim panels are neatly finished, plastics are soft to the touch, and the central drive shifter feels great in the hand.
  — Daniel Bentley, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2021
• The sink stopper had clunked down, permanently closed, so some idiot (probably me) had yanked it out by his fingernails and placed it to the side.
  — Chris Erskine, latimes.com, 8 June 2018
• Jimenez especially puts her back into it, but this saying-what-I’m-doing language clunks no matter what.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
• The first programmable computer—if it were built—would have been a gigantic, mechanical thing clunking along with gears and levers and punch cards.
  — Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2015
• Gone are the days of clunking heads together while sharing one pair of earbuds—not to mention having to scrape someone else’s earwax out of your tiny speaker grates.
  — Wired, 24 Sep. 2019
• Whether cruising along or at full-stomp, the 10-speed auto shifted smoothly and crisply with no untoward hiccups, hunting or clunking.
  — Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2018
• Junis’ 10th pitch clunked Matt Chapman somewhere on the back of his head, sending his helmet flying and his teammates into a panic.
  — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2019
• Other regular comments include the disconcertingly loud clunking noises that happen while plugged in at one of Tesla's fast-charging Superchargers.
  — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 28 Apr. 2022
• In fact, Hamill says that one of the biggest Star Wars original trilogy secrets is that more than half the dialogue was recorded in post-production due to all the intrusive noises from smoke and wind machines, prop effects, and even clunking robots.
  — James Hibberd, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2019

clunk

2 of 2 noun

• The book hit the floor with a loud clunk.
• The swing, a thick piece of lumber, clunks against the bull’s tines.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 4 Oct. 2023
• The room got quiet as the wheel stopped with a double clunk on each new image.
  — Dan Egan, jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• The door swung open with a clunk and a screech, and cold clean air rushed into his lungs like the first breath after a storm.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 8 July 2018
• Traffic, horns, people rushing around us, the clunk of tires over the streetcar tracks.
  — USA Today, 26 June 2023
• But those lugs are also low, long, and flat enough to handle hard dirt and even sections of pavement without too much clunk.
  — Cory Smith, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2022
• Some resembled the woody clunk of knuckles rapping on a door; others, the soft ringing of a gong.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 29 June 2021
• There’s was no clunk late in the period, though; Keith sniped the puck top corner for this third goal of the season.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 16 Apr. 2021
• First, the clunk of a Jugs machine, followed quickly by the muffled zip of a football being launched.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 9 Oct. 2022
• In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd tossed a stone into a cave and heard a clunk as one of the stones hit a clay jar.
  — Gary Schiff, Sun Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2022
• And after a short scuffle and clunks of heavy hooves on the ground, an opposing player smacks the ball with his mallet in between two posts.
  — Brittany Britto, baltimoresun.com, 5 June 2018
• The ride back to the waters of Alaska's Inside Passage was full of noisy clunks against the hull.
  — Plain Dealer Guest Writer, cleveland.com, 17 Jan. 2018
• Also, my rides ended with an abrupt ka-clunk just before the trains proceeded to the station for unloading.
  — Arthur Levine, USA TODAY, 10 July 2018
• Somehow, perhaps unnerved by the clanks and clunks, Fanucci had escaped his crate, pulled down the window and leapt out.
  — Ben Walker, The Seattle Times, 11 Feb. 2018
• The target, however, is not another bird but a small drone, and when the eagle connects, there is a metallic clunk.
  — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 28 May 2016
• Woo walked slowly across the room, using a walker to stabilize his upper body, his steps a symphony of clunks and creaks and whirs.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Apr. 2026
• The rumble of water is punctuated by the clunk of stones, the buzzing of bees, the whistling and whooping of men bringing the flocks in for the night.
  — Anthony Sattin, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Sep. 2022
• Dior’s clog offering has snob appeal and the shoes are deceptively streamlined, despite their clunk.
  — Madeline Fass, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2018
• The machine whirred and beeped for a moment, then the door slid open with a clunk, and a robotic arm dispensed the appropriate currency.
  — Spud Hilton, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 May 2018
• On his feet were the clunk-tastic sneakers from the Louis Vuitton Spring 2018 show.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2017
• The clunk of the mug hitting the desk produced a spike in the mice's olfactory tubercle activity.
  — Smriti Rao, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2010
• The transmission shifts with a clunk at low speeds, and the Nissan V-6 brings a buzzing vibration into the cabin.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 29 Nov. 2022
• The sequential transmission engages first with a clunk, and there's the novelty of having to negotiate a clutch pedal to get moving.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 19 July 2023
• The long-running CBS hit Survivor ended its 35th season with a clunk that left some fans wondering.
  — Bill Ervolino, Bergen, 21 Dec. 2017
• But despite the extra juice, the power glut is not obtrusive as the vehicle's two diverse and generally harmonious powertrains got down to it, save a one-time, mild clunk from the rear.
  — Jamie Kitman, Car and Driver, 18 Mar. 2022
• On that fictitious planet, teens put on VR googles, thin as pencils rather than clunk like existing Oculus headsets, and transported themselves into nightclubs with friends.
  — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 10 Apr. 2022
• Throughout its two seasons, HBO’s Westworld has trotted out no shortage of bad guys, from robot gunslingers to mad inventors to dialog that sputters and clunks.
  — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 24 June 2018
• With the flip of a light switch and the familiar clunk of a VHS tape sliding into a VCR, memories come rushing back for many collectors and movie lovers.
  — Conor McGill, CBS News, 24 June 2026
• In Sindelfingen, Daimler’s airport-sized factory on the edge of Stuttgart, a vast assembly hall is uncannily quiet except for occasional clunks and whirrs.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• That was tested on the first day of field trials, when a bad capacitor—easily fixed—in one home’s HVAC triggered a surge of current that shut the entire system down with a loud and dismaying relay clunk.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Nov. 2019