Example Sentences

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A cable is clanking slowly, and sailors run and shout in great excitement, doing things I can see no reason for, because it is as dark and stormy as the forty days.

From Old Junk by Ratcliffe, S. K. (Samuel Kerkham)

There, do you hear how the hook is clanking?

From Crime and Punishment by Garnett, Constance

Hark! something is clanking the chain on the door.

From American Indian stories by Zitkala-Sa