clickety-clack
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of clickety-clack
First recorded in 1875–80; metrical compound from click 1, clack
Example Sentences
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The clickety-clack of high heels through various corridors of power is a constant in “Pelosi in the House,” documentarian Alexandra Pelosi’s film about her mother, Speaker of the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
And produce the satisfying clickety-clack of real writing.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 5, 2015
Our narrator, a Frenchman, sits with his family in the pews of Notre Dame mourning his grandfather when the clickety-clack of high heels disturbs the still air.
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2012
How long would it be before these kids retreated into the dense clickety-clack äppärät world of their absorbed mothers and missing fathers?
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 7, 2010
Dozens of mechanized needles pumping up and down sounded a continuous clickety-clack, clickety-clack over the rumble of foot treadles and the whir of spinning spools of thread.
From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell
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