Example Sentences

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If you’re using a Greatsword, for example, you’ll want to avoid tight corridors, or else your horizontal slash attacks will clang harmlessly off the wall.

From The Verge • Apr. 12, 2016

Now, I recognize that it is unlikely that there will be funds one day and the spigot will clang shut the next. 

From Forbes • Jun. 18, 2015

This may not cause any regret to Mrs. Monkhouse; but in your own soul it will clang hollow - think of it!

From Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 by Stevenson, Robert Louis

I'll get a metal clapper to-morrow, but I doubt its answering; it will clang, and the sapphire has a clinking note like ice in a glass.

From The Three Sapphires by Fraser, W. A.

This may not cause any regret to Mrs. Monkhouse; but in your own soul it will clang hollow—think of it!

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis