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Demonstrators without pots were clanging on metal fences that lined the highway.

From New York Times • May 22, 2023

By the early ’90s, the alarms were clanging away; bankruptcy came in 2001, then again in 2008.

From Slate • Sep. 17, 2013

But as the doors of the hospitals were swinging open, the fiscal gates were clanging shut.

From Time Magazine Archive

Besides these, there were clanging instruments which were used chiefly in religious ceremonies: such were castanets, the cymbal, and the tambourine.

From Outline of Universal History by Fisher, George Park

As we entered the slobodka and descended rapidly toward the river, the bells were clanging loudly and the population was generally on its way to church.

From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Knox, Thomas Wallace