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

Taylor's English-language story had been cleared by censors and was clacking over the teletypes.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Arthur was clacking distractedly, but I didn’t pay any attention to him.

From The Knights of Arthur by Pohl, Frederik

It drew me up two pair of stairs into an office where the exchanges lay about in delightful disorder, and a little hand-press was clacking out proofs just in the old sweet way.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard