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• Laptoppers in jeans and toques clacked along to MGMT in the wood-paneled common area.2018 March, Laura Bliss, “How WeWork Has Perfectly Captured the Millennial Id”, in The Atlantic. From the entry toque
• Puay Sim interrupted, clacking her chopsticks decisively over a slice of fried fish.2016, Jason Erik Lundberg, The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories, →ISBN. From the entry kaypoh
• Instead of a raft floating down the Mississip,' it'll be a clickity clack across the desert.2010, Jerome Peterson, Thumb Flagging, page 162. From the entry clickity
• Damug circled the cage which held the creature, idly clacking his swordblade against the seasoned wood bars.1997, Brian Jacques, The Long Patrol. From the entry swordblade
• His knees clacked together like stalks of ribbon cane rattling in a high wind.1994, Joe R. Lansdale, “Bubba Ho-Tep”, in The Best of Joe R. Lansdale, San Francisco: Tachyon Publications, published 2010, pages 51–52. From the entry ribbon cane
• So off we went at a good clip, our wooden soles clacking noisily down the pebbled road.1993, Lucie Aubrac, Outwitting the Gestapo. From the entry go at a good clip
• From the wooded ridge came in reply the clacking of "typewriters,” and bullets whined over our heads.1973, Edgar B. Jackson, Fall Out to the Right of the Road!, page 321. From the entry typewriter
• The door handle clacked against its stop twice.2023, Wolf O'Rourc, “Essential Go”, in CyberFurry: An Interactive Coming of Age Action Thriller Novel, Las Vegas, Nev.: RoRo, →ISBN. From the entry sayōnara
• Picture a Newtons Cradle, or as some call it an Executive Ball Clicker, sitting on someones desk, clicking and clacking away.2016, Felipe Sostre, A liberation-oriented theological paradigm for evangelicals and sexual minorities caught at the nexus of orthodoxy…. From the entry executive ball clicker
• The action begins as darkness falls and the music ramps up with rhythmic, applauselike clacking, which will return as an outro.2015 September 15, Siobhan Burke, “Review: ‘Tree of Codes,’ an Explosion of Energy in a Sea of More”, in New York Times. From the entry applauselike
• He had got used to the clacks towers now.2004 September 25, Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (A Discworld Novel; 33), London: Doubleday, →ISBN; republished London: Corgi Books…. From the entry semaphore
• "But as a rookie I felt like the designated shushee, the rube whose clacking machine would be banned at any moment."1990, Bud Collins, My Life with the Pros - Page 86. From the entry shushee
• You could fly the leg however you wished, but if the overspeed warning—a distinctive loud clacking sound—went off, the run didn't count.2020 February 3, Terry Liittschwager, “Talking of Flying”, in Terry Liittschwager's Officially Unofficial, Curiously Chaotic Website…. From the entry clacker
• I clacked out a few “quick brown foxes” on it and the noise of it brought other folks from the office to my door.2018 October 22, Alex Wirth, “Grace in the mechanism: How a typewriter changed the way I pray and preach”, in Presbyterian Outlook, volume…. From the entry quick brown fox
• Tanaquil turned to head back home, his boots clacking on the steel plates which, he now noted, were vibrating with a miniquake.2009, Neal Asher, Brass Man. From the entry miniquake
• It’s a really great experience: Keys feel punchy with a not too loud clicking and clacking, along with a nice feel when actually pushing the key.2020 March 20, Jacob Krol, “Apple’s MacBook Air makes a good first impression with strong performance and punchy keys”, in CNN. From the entry punchy
• There was a whole malignity‡ of goblins up on the roof, but if you wanted your clacks to fly fast, you didn’t use the term out loud.2013, Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam (Discworld; 40), London: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 31. From the entry malignity

Meaning of clack

1. noun An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a sound midway between a click and a clunk.
2. noun Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
3. noun Chatter; prattle.

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How do you use clack in a sentence?

Clack is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The women bunched up in little droves and let their tongues clack, and the men herded together and passed a jug around and, to tell the truth, let their tongues clack too.”

What is a short sentence with clack?

“The door handle clacked against its stop twice.”

What does clack mean?

Clack means an abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a sound midway between a click and a clunk.