verb
definition
To make a clanking sound
example
The chains clanked.
definition
To cause to sound with a clank.
example
The prisoners clank their chains.
noun
definition
A noise that clanks.
Examples of clanking in a Sentence
To stop the clanking, you'll need to periodically bleed the radiators, releasing the air inside.
Yes, but think of the sleigh bells and the sound of the train coming in from Ridgway, clanking and hooting, and billowing its black smoke.
Every now and then you'll hear a clanking sound, you'll look around to see what is causing it and find that the building's drainpipe is shaking violently.
A thumping or clanking accompanied by steering problems can mean worn ball-joints or tire-rods.
Necklaces and bracelets are much affected, and chains with scent-caskets attached, while the arms are covered with clanking glass bangles called alangu, some twenty even of these being on one arm.
Long gone are the days of swashbuckling pirates clanking swords.
He glided silently on one foot half across the room, and seeming not to notice the chairs was dashing straight at them, when suddenly, clinking his spurs and spreading out his legs, he stopped short on his heels, stood so a second, stamped on the spot clanking his spurs, whirled rapidly round, and, striking his left heel against his right, flew round again in a circle.
For a long time they continued to look at red Rugay who, his arched back spattered with mud and clanking the ring of his leash, walked along just behind "Uncle's" horse with the serene air of a conqueror.
Rostov riding in front gave the order "Forward!" and the hussars, with clanking sabers and subdued talk, their horses' hoofs splashing in the mud, defiled in fours and moved along the broad road planted with birch trees on each side, following the infantry and a battery that had gone on in front.
Now, as Ella 's voice faded out, the rattle of a chain was heard clanking fiercely onto the floor.
Certain hanging travel cosmetic carriers are able to hold objects as large as a travel blow-dryer, but due to the intensity of most types of travel, a hanging makeup bag cannot prevent your makeup items from clanking against one another.
The ring for a kiss bells are very popular and many brides find them to be a nice alternative to clanking spoons against glasses.
The same forced hot water that heats your old clanking radiator can be redirected into a new system that is far more efficient and cheaper to run.
The sound effects are perfectly fitting for a game of this caliber, what with the weak metallic clanking noises that the cars make when they collide.
In a parliament with Lauderdale as commissioner (1669-1673) " clanking acts " were passed against nonconformity, but the laws were too severe to be executed, save spasmodically, and were followed by a second indulgence (1672).