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Recent Examples of clack
Verb
The leasing officer who let us in watches from the doorway with a bemused smile as Parks films the space on her phone, clacking around the hardwood floors in nude heels and a backless seafoam dress, a Coach bag slung over her shoulder.—
Clio Chang,
Curbed,
14 July 2026 Clicking and clacking, a tiny wooden marionette lifts an apple to his mouth ad infinitum.—
Jessica Kozuka,
Travel + Leisure,
10 June 2026
Noun
Inside the modest cluster of buildings, the click and clack of handlooms, operated mostly by women, blend with barnyard sounds outside.—
Simon Montlake,
Christian Science Monitor,
15 Apr. 2026 Meanwhile, his tactile upright stylings meet the clack of Dannie Richmond’s drums, fostering a clattering percussiveness borrowed from the blues.—
Daniel Felsenthal,
Pitchfork,
4 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for clack
The ballad finds Fontaines’ Grian Chatten and Rosalía trading lines over a moody acoustic strum that repeatedly swells with strings and clattering drums.
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Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
12 Oct. 2026
Shawn could hear his mother still clattering about in the kitchen, could smell the soapy smell of the man’s body.