Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clanked
Verb
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Ulloa stood up and clinked his glass to quiet the group.—
Paul Tenorio,
New York Times,
2 June 2026 -
Our buckteeth clinked painfully.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
25 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Many people watching the game on TV were surprised, since replays seemed to suggest Freuler had been offside before being clattered by Abunada.—
Dermot Corrigan,
New York Times,
13 June 2026
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There have been a dozen political crises in Britain in the past decade, when Prime Ministers have fallen, elections have been called, and helicopters clattered overhead.—
Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
14 May 2026
Verb
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Sticks clacked in quick succession as passes moved up the ice.—
Panashe Matemba-Mutasa,
Mercury News,
11 Mar. 2026
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On the other side of a chain link fence, a women’s pickleball foursome click-clacked through a couple of sets, seemingly clueless about the identity of the two young men readying themselves for the start of the 2026 season.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
26 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The Pew Research Center found that Google users who encountered an AI summary in response to their search term clicked on a link in the search results 8% of the time, compared to 15% of the time when no AI summary was offered.—
Matthew Kayser,
Miami Herald,
22 June 2026
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Gross and Baxter instantly clicked and have remained friends, nearly four decades after the NBC sitcom ended in 1989.—
Kathleen Perricone,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 June 2026
Verb
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The birds chirped a little bit louder.—
Tracy Smith,
CBS News,
7 June 2026
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About 40 minutes away, real birds melodiously chirped and trilled outside its sister hotel, Es Figueral Nou, an 18th-century finca and former fig plantation set among vast agricultural fields.—
Norma Meyer,
Oc Register,
27 May 2026
Verb
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The gruesome discovery left many on the block rattled.—
Andrew Ramos,
CBS News,
21 June 2026
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Since then, California has exploded in population and has been rattled by many major earthquakes, some far more deadly and similarly strong.—
Janet Loehrke,
USA Today,
19 June 2026
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“Clanked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clanked. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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