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- noun Plural form of
clang . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
clang .
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Examples
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The sound of the titles clangs well as you are ushered up through the redoubled apartments.
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In fact, the big action sequences are anything but, as they will impress with sword clangs, explosions, and sound reverb.
Mania News Feed 2010
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My sword clangs on yours, just as my tip scoops the top off your head like a child’s spoon opening a hardboiled egg.
Quote of the day: "...if you frighten easily, do not learn how to fence." zornhau 2005
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Some stories in the collection have a traditional structure, but their magic is still in the poetry, as with the woman who has a "proud virginity that clangs like a bell" or another whose "kneecaps forget to be quiet and sigh at darkness."
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In the same way, a fake writing voice clangs like tin.
I’m Hearing Voice(s) 2009
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At one point the truck began to rock alarmingly from side to side while someone began banging the metal exterior, sending out huge metallic clangs.
Bloody and bruised: the journalist caught in Egypt unrest 2011
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Then he snaps through the lock which clangs to the floor.
Dakota Roger Weaver 2011
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After a moment, it beeps and goes green as it opens the triple bolted blast doors with a series of deep clangs.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Thablue’s Review Forum 2009
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Through the dark, it was comforting to hear the clangs of my neighbors doing the same thing, as a reminder that I am not, in fact, crazy.
Archive 2009-09-01 Kate Fleurange 2009
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If it clangs shut, the nations of the United Kingdom – England as well as Scotland – may emerge transformed into a wiser, modernised relationship in which they can cope with their own problems without illusions.
Let Scotland be a sovereign, mature nation and England benefits too | Neal Ascherson 2012
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