Thesaurus results for CLACKING

clacking

verb

present participle of clack

as in clattering

to make a series of short sharp noises her teeth clacked because she was freezing while waiting for the bus

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Recent Examples of clacking Heck, our returning champion Carole wasn’t even in this episode other than clacking away on her keyboard. — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2026 Once, when his unit came under heavy fire, a soldier running for cover caught a glimpse of Salinger hunched under a table, clacking away like a frenzied newsman on deadline. — Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026 Automobile horns echoed here and there in the distance, and as the government railway train departed the station under the bridge, a string of small lights heralded the far-off clacking of its wheels. — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026 The majority of people sitting in those seats—click-clacking away on their computers with an IV dangling from one arm—are women, including me. — Fiorella Valdesolo, Allure, 15 July 2026 The leasing officer who let us in watches from the doorway with a bemused smile as Parks films the space on her phone, clacking around the hardwood floors in nude heels and a backless seafoam dress, a Coach bag slung over her shoulder. — Clio Chang, Curbed, 14 July 2026 Clicking and clacking, a tiny wooden marionette lifts an apple to his mouth ad infinitum. — Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2026 Babe, that clacking fan is long gone. — E.r. Pulgar, SPIN, 10 June 2026 Often mixed in to the beat are noisemakers like matracas – wooden objects in the shape of flags that produce a loud clacking sound when spun – and plastic horns called cornetas, which fans use to keep the matches animated from start to finish. — Michael Rios, CNN Money, 7 June 2026

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The ballad finds Fontaines’ Grian Chatten and Rosalía trading lines over a moody acoustic strum that repeatedly swells with strings and clattering drums.

— Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2026
Shawn could hear his mother still clattering about in the kitchen, could smell the soapy smell of the man’s body.

— Rachel Heng, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of clattering

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The production is a rattling junk drawer of circuit-bent thrift-store keyboards, dusty drum machines, and unintuitive loops, and KTO combines them into head-scratching, shouldn’t-work grooves.

— Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026
The trunk-rattling track oozes bold proclamations about bag chasing, love at first sight, and cruising past his adversaries.

— Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 15 Oct. 2026

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