Example Sentences

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“This is my friend,” the anorexic waitress said, looking at me in the rearview mirror, but the windshield wipers were clacking and I couldn’t catch the friend’s name.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 22, 2010

Thanks to Russian secrecy about the ship, and the press's failure to check, tongues were clacking furiously when Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov arrived by plane from Washington.

From Time Magazine Archive

Soon romantic villagers were clacking of arm-in-arm walks in twilight, unabashed embraces.

From Time Magazine Archive

“S.Q. was patting us on the backs so hard my teeth were clacking together.”

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

Their scabby snouts were twitching triumphantly, and their teeth were clacking as close to my thumbs as they could get.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt