Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clinkety-clank
Noun
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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His most notable investments are the phone number 444-4444 and its accompanying jingle, which has played throughout homes for more than a decade.—
Otto Rabe,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
11 Sep. 2025
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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
Noun
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That delicate, metallic tang—almost more sensation than flavor, the suggestion of electricity, like looking at an outlet with a fork in your hand.—
The Bon Appétit Staff,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
12 Sep. 2025
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The vanilla flavor, coupled with the tang of the cream cheese, is the perfect balance.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The set includes the base and blade attachment plus three cups, lip rings, resealable lids, a to-go lid, and recipe card.—
Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
16 Sep. 2025
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Adding a ring buffer improved throughput significantly.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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But with this new one, the country thing — the sound of the fiddle and the twang in the voice — is kind of restrained and folded into a broader musical vision.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
12 Sep. 2025
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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
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“Clinkety-clank.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clinkety-clank. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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