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clanging

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verb

present participle of clang

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for clanging
Adjective
  • The metallic leather cap toe and stiletto heel offered a clean contrast to the transparent PVC sides — an effect that mirrored the gown’s interplay of opaque velvet and sheer lace.
    Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 2 June 2025
  • The Cyber option, featured in pictures throughout this review, has metallic green accents and a few keycaps with a cyborg aesthetic.
    Francisco Lahoz, PC Magazine, 31 May 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Their bathroom floor also pooled with water after showering, and noise from other apartments, like the shrill beeps of a low-battery smoke detector next door, carried through the paper-thin walls.
    Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • One strident answer is to lean into ambient intelligence.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
  • Ken Cuccinelli was among the first and most strident.
    Molly Redden, ProPublica, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • While generating political polemics, Sunday’s vote has not triggered the raucous street rallies that generally accompany Mexican balloting.
    Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2025
  • The 16th annual Big Slick weekend publicly kicked off at The K with a raucous celebrity softball game, led by hosts Paul Rudd, Rob Riggle, Jason Sudeikis, Eric Stonestreet, David Koechner and Heidi Gardner — plus all of their closest friends.
    Ramal Nasim, Kansas City Star, 31 May 2025
Adjective
  • Still to this day, seeing a sea of red robes walking in twos is jarring.
    Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 29 May 2025
  • Lighting designer Richard Norwood’s overhead fluorescents shine a harsh glare on Bisa’s Victorian-esque costumes, with jarring buzzes from sound designer Rick Sims punctuating the sudden lighting changes.
    Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 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
  • Its lineup interspersed noisy no wave groups like Pop Music Fever Dream and Pure Adult, upbeat pop-rock performances from bands like Um, Jennifer?
    Grace Robins-Somerville, Pitchfork, 4 June 2025
  • The sheer volume of content created far outpaces what audiences can consume, leading to a noisy, crowded digital ecosystem.
    Luca Brinkhues, Forbes.com, 4 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 13 Jun. 2025.

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