clinkety-clank

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clinkety-clank
Noun
  • What to Know While there were no visible camera flashes during daylight hours, Harry's arrival at court sparked the audible rattle of many cameras taking pictures at the same time.
    Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Baby rattlesnakes don’t have rattles, and adult snakes’ rattles occasionally break off, according to the National Park Service.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • From the moment that Jerry Goldsmith’s piano tinkles caress the opening bars of his score while stars float past the frame, anyone with a soul knows that this is not your average IP cash-in.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The water fountains are trickling; wind chimes tinkle and shimmer in the breeze, and the store’s seemingly endless lines of indoor and outdoor décor are available to celebrate each season and occasion.
    Emily M. Olson, Hartford Courant, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • Autumn arrives in a blaze of golden forests accompanied by the hearty clink of steins—as age-old tradition raise a toast.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • There’s no rush here, just salty air, slow weekends, and the soft clink of champagne glasses at sunset.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • The music then switches to the original Sex and the City opening and closing jingles as the credits begin to roll.
    EW.com, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Bob Sirott and John Records Landecker, who held down afternoon and evening shifts respectively for much of the 1970s on WLS, are reuniting on the air at WGN for a three-hour tour of anecdotes, DJ interviews, vintage jingles and listener calls.
    Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The vanilla flavor, coupled with the tang of the cream cheese, is the perfect balance.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The lactic acid thickens the mixture and gives the cheese its signature subtle tang.
    Daryl Austin, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Rollins decided to try to get into the ring and take the belt back for his wife, but AJ stood over it to block him.
    Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Thatcher Commentarystudent loans and debt My wife sold her engagement ring to pay our tax bill.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In the face of this workaday jangle of strangeness and complexity, paranoia starts to seem like a perfectly rational response.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The key organizer mutes the noise of key jangles and can keep keys in a tidy stack in a user’s preferred order.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Built from a set of notes left on her desk, this posthumous work lends itself particularly well to narrator Julianne Moore’s delicate twang.
    AudioFile Magazine August 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Carpenter sings about it on this track with a twang to her voice and a fiddle in the mix.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
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