How to Use clank in a Sentence

clank

1 of 2 verb

• The empty can clanked along the sidewalk.
• The radiator hissed and clanked.
• The bells clank and the air crackles and the peaks look like cathedral spires.
  — Chiara Goia, National Geographic, 14 Dec. 2019
• Goff hit him in the hands with a pass as the receiver leaned to the grass, and the ball clanked away.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
• The teddy bears rained down as soon as Shawn O'Donnell's shot clanked in off the post.
  — Charlie Hatch, Cincinnati.com, 7 Jan. 2018
• Racine Lutheran's first free throw clanked off the front rim.
  — jsonline.com, 19 Mar. 2020
• Over the next five minutes, the Aztecs missed 7 of 8 shots, had five turnovers and clanked the front end of a one-and-one free throw.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
• The ball clanked off the backboard and rim, and Trey Kell pulled his jersey over his face.
  — Mark Zeigler, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• His wrist shot from the right side clanked in off the left goalpost at 7:03 of the first period.
  — USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2017
• Something in one of the limbs clanked and hummed, and a keycard came spitting out.
  — Michael Calore, Wired, 11 Feb. 2020
• Judge watched the ball clank off the front of the stands, just below two fans who reached over a railing and tried for a catch.
  — Ian Harrison, Chron, 28 Sep. 2022
• On a rush down the left wing, his sharp-angle shot clanked off Ullmark’s pad and through the short side.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2019
• Fultz's form has been widely mocked as his shots clanked off the backboard.
  — Molly Blue, OregonLive.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• As time expired, Quentin Goodin's 3 clanked off the rim.
  — Adam Baum, Cincinnati.com, 14 Dec. 2019
• And carriages and carts were clanking along the pavement.
  — Ann Maloney, NOLA.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• Parkey also missed from 41 yards in the first quarter and 42 yards in the third, clanking it off the left upright.
  — Omar Kelly, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 Sep. 2017
• Chains and trucks and big digger-like gadgets creak and groan, clanking bells tolling for the dead.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 23 May 2017
• He was forced into three saves and saw the ball clank off the underside of his crossbar in the first half.
  — Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 13 Aug. 2021
• Don’t forget to look out for the clanking bucket fountain, an icon of the city.
  — Petrina Darrah, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2023
• The strike came two minutes after a Nashville shot clanked off the crossbar from the same spot.
  — Charlie Hatch, Cincinnati.com, 3 Mar. 2018
• But the back door of the Unidad la llama opens to the pounding soundtrack and clanking weights of a private gym.
  — Mimi Whitefield, miamiherald, 1 Mar. 2018
• Floaters weren’t dropping, long balls were clanking — there was even a missed layup.
  — Matt Calkins, The Seattle Times, 18 June 2017
• The second came with 25 seconds left, when Eric Knodel it the post, but the puck clanked wide.
  — Charlie Hatch, Cincinnati.com, 21 Apr. 2018
• First came an error by Walker, who had a ground ball clank off his glove.
  — Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 23 June 2021
• Perdomo tip-toed through his windup, lobbed a ball to the plate and watched as his pitch clanked off the top of Pillar’s left cleat.
  — Kerry Crowley, The Mercury News, 3 July 2019
• Yuli Gurriel clanked a double off the wall in one of the deepest parts of the park against Kenley Jansen with two outs in the bottom of the ninth.
  — Jake Kaplan, Houston Chronicle, 30 Oct. 2017
• Then the Bradley roared off, clanking and roaring, down some unknown road.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2023
• The bodybuilder’s chisels are barbells and dumbbells and 45-pound plates that clank in sweaty gyms.
  — Desmond Butler, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2022
• Johnson missed, the ball clanked off the back rim, Fresno State went the other way and Hill (16 points) drained a 3 — a five-point turnaround.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2023
• But he was trapped by defenders, forcing him to clank a 3-pointer off the side of the backboard.
  — William Guillory, NOLA.com, 16 Mar. 2018

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clank

2 of 2 noun

• Sean Kuraly rang the post, Boston’s third clank of the night.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• And so the Brown grads drank, the clank clank of the gavel echoing over the din of chatter and 2000s pop punk.
  — Hau Chu, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2023
• Here's to hoping for many more sonorous clanks in the future.
  — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 22 July 2019
• There are hypnotic mine lamps, the clank of dead souls, the rut of work that doesn’t pay.
  — Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 19 Apr. 2019
• The only sound, aside from the squeak and clank of the suspension, is the backup alert.
  — Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 24 Aug. 2017
• The same shots that went down in their good times were going clank, clunk, chunk now.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 27 May 2021
• Houston, the clank-meter was out for both teams on the perimeter to start.
  — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 2 Feb. 2023
• Chun, looking for a hat trick, had an attempt clank off the right post.
  — Kyle Stackpole, baltimoresun.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• Even when Green found room to get an open look at the hoop, those attempts often fell with a clank on the rim.
  — Matt Goul, cleveland, 20 Jan. 2023
• Choukair and Scarton each went 3 of 5 on field goal attempts, both missing one with a clank off the left post.
  — oregonlive.com, 6 Aug. 2019
• At this instant, the door to the Freuds’ building clanks and the slender, dark-haired girl steps out, stops dead, and stares at Günter.
  — Stephen O’Connor, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• The sound was pure, and customary, metal bat meeting ball with a hard clank, a grounder to first base.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2023
• The gym, which used to resonate with the clanks of athletes at weight machines and the thuds of runners on treadmills, felt abandoned, too.
  — Alia Wong, The Atlantic, 18 June 2019
• Now comes the best part: Breaks in the tree cover reveal views of the mountains and prairies of the Kaibab National Forest and the faint clank and hum of passing trains.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 7 June 2019
• Beating drums, berserkers roaring, the howling of wolves, the deep guttural thrum of chanting voices and the clank of steel.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
• There is a clank after each pretend coin is dropped and when the child looks inside there is a silver dollar.
  — Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 9 July 2018
• Okogie collected it in the corner and heaved it up as time expired, only to have his shot clank off the iron.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 11 Nov. 2019
• There is the sound of rustling, followed by clanks, and then a sustained whoosh of loud, mechanical hissing.
  — Bronwen Dickey, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2018
• Somehow, perhaps unnerved by the clanks and clunks, Fanucci had escaped his crate, pulled down the window and leapt out.
  — Ben Walker, The Seattle Times, 11 Feb. 2018
• For someone who’s set off by the tiniest clank of a spoon on a cereal bowl, the jostling drunks and traffic and hype is a special kind of torture.
  — SI.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• Having a water bottle clank around on the outside of your bag is annoying while on a hike in the middle of the woods, let alone on a bus or light rail.
  — Adrienne So, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2017
• The clank of that beer can resounded with one fan’s realization that OSU’s reign has ended.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 27 Nov. 2022
• The Nuggets’ third-year small forward missed all four of his shot attempts from the field in the team’s home debut Friday against the Suns, including three clanks from deep, with an overall minus-13 rating.
  — Kyle Fredrickson, The Denver Post, 26 Oct. 2019
• Floating in white marble as the manhole Cover clanks, Mary treasures up these things, Here, where an American dream came true.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 16 Mar. 2023
• After watching his team clank and wheeze in the first half against the Rockets, punctuated by a fumble-finger Green pass to a surprised fan in the third row, Kerr called a timeout.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 29 May 2018
• To spend time with noise warriors is to become frustratingly attuned to every gurgle, squeal, clank, and creak.
  — Bianca Bosker, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2019
• If one of those shots clanks off the rim, the Ramblers are, in all likelihood, sitting at home watching a different team from the South Region bask in the national spotlight.
  — Chris Johnson, SI.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• The Trojans’ inside-out approach was turned upside-down when their outside shots led to one clank after another.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
• Minutes later, the honor also brought an awkward and humorous moment, falling off the ribbon around the Dalai Lama’s neck and landing on the podium with a loud clank.
  — Gary Warth, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 June 2017
• The rims seemed to shrink with every clank, the Grizzlies’ confidence and physicality growing with every second, pushing the Lakers away from a commanding start to their first-round series.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024