clack
verb (used without object)
to make a quick, sharp sound, or a succession of such sounds, as by striking or cracking.
was clacking
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past progressiveof clack.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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You can credit me later with tickets, and so, yes, it is being held together with tape because I was clacking it too much in Vegas and Seattle.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025
Half hour later, as the train was clacking through Maryland, another man tiptoed down the aisle, parted the green baize curtains, popped a package of papers on the sleeper.
From Time Magazine Archive
Taylor's English-language story had been cleared by censors and was clacking over the teletypes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Deaf old Mary Haig, his housekeeper, was clacking the pots together in the kitchen and grumbling steadily to herself.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
I haven't written a word while that windmill was clacking.
From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul
