clanging 1 of 2

clanging

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verb

present participle of clang

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for clanging
Adjective
  • Putting the uranium into metallic form is a critical step towards building nuclear weapons.
    Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 26 June 2025
  • Gift wrap and metallic foil are other materials that Studer suggests.
    Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • Still, the shrill alarm that echoed on Friday morning as Israel announced airstrikes on neighboring Iran gave her that familiar feeling.
    Isabel Rivera, Miami Herald, 15 June 2025
  • The males climb up trees and produce their shrill songs en masse, using muscles to vibrate a rigid part of their exoskeletons called tymbals.
    Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2025
Adjective
  • There was always the risk that he could be associated with more strident calls for change and earn the ire of his superiors.
    JOSEPH TORIGIAN, Foreign Affairs, 23 June 2025
  • Like any journal of ideas, some of its positions did not age well (notably its strident opposition to the Civil Rights Movement), but other ideas became bedrock principles of the Republican Party.
    Terry W. Hartle, Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • Morocco’s Wydad gave their raucous fans a first goal of the tournament to celebrate when Thembinkosi Lorch pulled one back, which led to a flare being thrown onto the pitch and smoke engulfing much of the playing area.
    Steve Madeley, New York Times, 22 June 2025
  • On June 2, before a raucous audience of roughly 100 friends, family, and alums, the students graduated as actual drag performers.
    David Mack, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2025
Adjective
  • Raj’s meek voice could faintly be heard against the jarring cacophony of honking horns, street performers, and the chatter of street vendors and passersby.
    Footwear News, Footwear News, 24 June 2025
  • The first-round knockout was a jarring return to the octagon.
    Jenny Catlin, New York Times, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • Roberts brought in dissonant strings and brass for the K2 battle droids.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 29 May 2025
  • Less an adaptation than a dissonant echo of Carrollian logic, Alice is a marvel of handmade horror that channels the darker currents of adolescent imagination and, not unlike Us, treats the inner life of a child not as an innocent refuge but as haunted terrain.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 21 May 2025
Adjective
  • If co-workers are noisy, ask for sound-cancelling headphones or a seating change.
    Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 28 June 2025
  • In a lively first-half played in front of a noisy crowd of 54,619, Chelsea were denied a penalty when Enzo Fernandez went down in the box after turning past Gerson, while at the other end Levi Colwill headed the ball off the line from a free kick.
    Liam Twomey, New York Times, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • The Miz, often derided as a wrestler for his flamboyant and grating onscreen personality, is few people’s idea of a WrestleMania main-event talent, so his win makes the 27th event stand out as kind of an oddity.
    Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
  • His political opponents viewed him as grating, uncooperative, and at times dogmatic.
    Daniel R. DePetris, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Clanging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clanging. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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