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And he falls further out of touch and more clangorously out of sync by the second.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2020

Not only do his kids speak up-to-the-minute adolescent idiom and illustrate the latest dress code perfectly, they attend clangorously class-conscious public high schools, whose unexamined values the protagonists must always challenge -- and defeat.

From Time Magazine Archive

The words rang out with military precision, and the speaker's horse pawed clangorously, as if impatient for the charge.

From Ghetto Comedies by Zangwill, Israel

He made the walls shiver when he struck his bow clangorously in the opening chords of the Rackoczy March.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James

In the morning clangorously, at night dumbly, it insists on attention.

From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Kilmer, Joyce