Example Sentences

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For the second record, the mot-du-jour is "clacking".

From BBC • May 6, 2020

While their merger deal is clacking along at milk-train speed, the Penn Central partners are rolling up a lot of momentum on their own.

From Time Magazine Archive

By the quotation board the ticker is clicking busily, and next it Dow-Jones’ news machine is clacking out printed copy that the newsboy will be howling “Extra” over an hour afterward.

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various

Hawthorn buds are cracking, And in the distance a shepherd is clacking His shears, snip-snipping the wool from his sheep.

From Men, Women and Ghosts by Lowell, Amy

She has two unhappy wenches, against whom her old tongue is clacking from morning till night: she pounces on them at all hours.

From The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh by Thackeray, William Makepeace