clanging
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of clanging
clang- probably < German Klang sound, taken as clang + -ing 1
Example Sentences
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The music is imbued with the sounds of passing time: Clanging clock chimes register the hours going by, and a shimmering sublayer of strings courses below like a river.
From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2022
Clanging snowplows and a small army of shovelers shattered Georgetown's calm one morning last week as they attacked the big drifts in front of the home of New York Herald Tribune Reporter Rowland Evans.
From Time Magazine Archive
Clanging an old town crier's bell for attention, Bundestag President Kai-Uwe von Hassel read the final vote: 247 votes in favor of Barzel, ten opposed and three abstentions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Clanging metal and squeaking keys make me feel jumpy.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
The curse of high-placed guilt Is on you, if the warning tocsin's knell, Clanging forth fiercely, hath not force to tell The hearer that Fate's hourglass fast runs out.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 29, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir
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