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Synonyms for clank

a loud resonant repeating noise

make a clank

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Very cautiously they were moving now--the accidental clank that had alarmed me was not repeated.
As they passed over the drawbridge, Alleyne marked the gleam of arms in the embrasures to right and left, and they had scarce set foot upon the causeway ere a hoarse blare burst from a bugle, and, with screech of hinge and clank of chain, the ponderous bridge swung up into the air, drawn by unseen hands.
The big change brought by Saatchi is that the clock has been electrified, so it no longer clanks or even tick-tocks.
Kids join in on the singing in various tracks that encompass a musical smorgasbord ranging from guitars, ukelele, trombone and piano to percussive clinks, clanks, and violin thunks.
I know my hand is heavy-- the other side sails upward and clanks.
British-born but of Polish extraction, Mania just went--and ended up in the Great Bialowieza Forest on the Poland-Belarus border, draping what looks like a saggy duvet cover over a rope spanning a pond: When the viewer's feet pass over a trigger in Chisenhale's darkened main gallery, a ten-minute film projection of what happened next clanks into life.
The zoo-keeper is an eight-armed alien who clanks her buckets along the Milky Way.