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 Harte, Bret