How do you use Clanking in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like noisy, plus the exact meaning.
Clanking meaning
present participle and gerund of clank
Synonyms of Clanking
Using Clanking
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of clank
- Useful related words include: noisy.
- In the example corpus, clanking often appears in combinations such as: the clanking, clanking replicator.
Context around Clanking
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 6 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Clanking
- In this selection, "clanking" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ominous, crew, reindeer, replicator, doors and automated stand out and add context to how "clanking" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after shot clanking off the and banging and clanking. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "clanking" sits close to words such as aadi, aayush and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with clanking
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Shot after shot after shot clanking off the rim, as our bigger hopes faded away. (15 words)
Scores of stonecutters gathered from all over Israel and worked around the clock banging and clanking. (16 words)
These clanking ghosts being hoisted about the stage became objects of ridicule as they became clichéd stage elements. (18 words)
In a video that has gone viral, ominous clanking sounds coming from within a tunnel slide are heard — along with a bystander's laughter — before the officer is seen shooting out of the playground contraption feet first, face down. (39 words)
At last count, 96 people have died during the course of the ten "Saw" movies to date, most of them killed by the clanking automated slicing machines built by the vengeful machinist Jigsaw (Tobin Bell). (35 words)
An automated factory that produced robots designed to construct more factories would constitute a clanking replicator A clanking replicator is an artificial self-replicating system that relies on conventional large-scale technology and automation. (34 words)
Example sentences (11)
An automated factory that produced robots designed to construct more factories would constitute a clanking replicator A clanking replicator is an artificial self-replicating system that relies on conventional large-scale technology and automation.
A saracen armoured car screeched to a halt near him and more soldiers tumbled out through the clanking doors at its rear end.
At last count, 96 people have died during the course of the ten "Saw" movies to date, most of them killed by the clanking automated slicing machines built by the vengeful machinist Jigsaw (Tobin Bell).
In a video that has gone viral, ominous clanking sounds coming from within a tunnel slide are heard — along with a bystander's laughter — before the officer is seen shooting out of the playground contraption feet first, face down.
It could have been a panel falling from the ceiling or one of the repair crew clanking over this way, but she couldn’t see anything down the dark hall.
Scores of stonecutters gathered from all over Israel and worked around the clock banging and clanking.
The clanking of metal wheels on iron rails is distinctly loud when a train arrives at, or departs from, the railway station.
Between these cold winter winds and those reindeer clanking around, I will surely have to contact my homeowner’s insurance.
Staff and visitors have reported hearing chains clanking and feeling unexplained cold spots as they walk through the dungeon-like corridors.
Shot after shot after shot clanking off the rim, as our bigger hopes faded away.
These clanking ghosts being hoisted about the stage became objects of ridicule as they became clichéd stage elements.
Common combinations with clanking
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: