The third one turned the mechanism with a sharp "clack". From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
This "clack" seems to be quite random and much louder. From Wordnik.com. [News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] Reference
There was that forthright "clack" the metal letters made as they struck the paper. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The original Rock Band kit was tremendously noisy, and it was noise of the "clack" variety. From Wordnik.com. [Dubious Quality] Reference
With a loud clack, bundled lathes met bundled lathes. From Wordnik.com. [A Crown of Swords]
Click, clack! click, clack! thus cheerily let us roll!. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
It kept on by making that noise, clack! clack! clack!. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4] Reference
Now his voice was heard above the clack of the cameras. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference
All clack-clack names he half remembers from his dreams. From Wordnik.com. [The Terror]
Stop your clack, and be damn'd t'ye, and hear me complain. From Wordnik.com. [Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]] Reference
clack, clack, clack, and we'd all run to the wire machines. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2002] Reference
They don't need to have a clack of hired people to talk to. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 14, 2009] Reference
Inside he heard laughter, the click-clack of shoes on floor. From Wordnik.com. [Thinly Sliced Raw Fish] Reference
"You've got castanets that clack where you should have feelings.". From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
So did the nasty, mechanical clack-clack-clack of the repeating crossbows. From Wordnik.com. [Advance and Retreat]
And then a second clack, a different sound, like someone cracking a knuckle. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
The tick of the clock and the clack of his fingers against the computer keys. From Wordnik.com. [Ugly Americans]
There was a clack of heels and Mrs. Macbean and her daughter, Darleen, came in. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Dentist]
They heard the clack-clack of his heels on the stone floor, fading in the distance. From Wordnik.com. [Rebels of the Red Planet] Reference
Dey use barks from dogwood, wild cherry, and clack haws, for one thing and another. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3] Reference
To avoid heel clack, a beginner's problem, Crescent Moon's shoes have a narrower tail. From Wordnik.com. [Sports: Snowshoes Are Chic] Reference
I waited for Verity to clack a second time, but there was nothing but a frantic rustling. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
The knife thwacked through the last of the salami and hit the cutting board with a clack. From Wordnik.com. [One-ClickBuy:SeptemberHarlequinBlaze]
More clack-clack-clack; Page 399 became pages 400 and 401 — Rolff really churned it out. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Nowhere]
Blackbirds troubled the corn but little, and were more reserved of their mannerless clack. From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
On and on the neat, strong hoofs rang their metallic click, clack along the smooth macadam. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
The monotonous click-clack of the horses 'feet lulled the tired child into blissful drowsiness. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
She was glad enough to escape the clack of tongues and the fire of questions and crawl to her room. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
She heard the rattle and clack of the returning coffeepot, boiling up the hill at an unwonted speed. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
The bathroom door next to my side of the bed swung open (squeeeeak), paused, and closed again (clack). From Wordnik.com. [sheepdip Diary Entry] Reference
The floors here are all original hardwood, so if you're wearing heels, they tend to clack quite loudly. From Wordnik.com. [Thanks for Looking After Sinamyn] Reference
She offers a sample, beaming as she stretches her click-clack Cameroonian accent into a Nashville twang. From Wordnik.com. [Slavery's New Face] Reference
In another room people were playing billiards, and every few seconds the clack of ivory balls could be heard. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret in Holland]
But on hearing no reply from his ravenous companions, only the steady clack of knives on china, he fell silent. From Wordnik.com. [Il Connoisseur Sanguinante] Reference
They stank in a way that made me anxious, in a way that made my teeth clack together with involuntary anticipation. From Wordnik.com. [Revolutionaries] Reference
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