clang
verb (used without object)
to give out a loud, resonant sound, as that produced by a large bell or two heavy pieces of metal striking together.
had been clanging
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past perfect progressiveof clang.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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The cars had been clanging throughout the city since 1832, when the first track was laid on Fourth Avenue.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2016
Here the bell, which from the plain open four-posted belfry above had been clanging with a metallic sharpness that had an odd impatient worldliness about it, suddenly ceased.
From A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories by Bret Harte
