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verb

ˈklak

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as in to clatter

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 clack

Verb

The nails are clacking on the floor. —

Sergio Candido, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026 The mom of three hears the televisions vibrating through the walls, video games clacking on the XBox, and the constant swirl of doors as her kids rumble through the house. —

Jessica Ma, Dallas Morning News, 29 Jan. 2026

Noun

Eavesdrop on conversations with Rohmer and Jacques Rivette in the Cahiers office, the clack of dueling typewriters soundtracking the camaraderie, and play voyeur as everyone’s hero Roberto Rosselini stops by to address the troops and pocket finger sandwiches on the way out. —

David Fear, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025 The sudden clack of the key hitting the plate would wake him. —

Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for clack

Recent Examples of Synonyms for clack

Verb

There have been a dozen political crises in Britain in the past decade, when Prime Ministers have fallen, elections have been called, and helicopters clattered overhead.

— Sam Knight, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
The seeds are loose and clatter around inside the pods, giving baptisia the name rattleweed, as children once used the seedpods as rattles.

— Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 12 May 2026