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clanging

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verb

present participle of clang

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for clanging
Adjective
  • If a gold or platinum rim is desired, it’s now painted on in a thin black line that a second firing renders metallic.
    Naomi Rougeau, Robb Report, 27 Apr. 2025
  • The side slit of Rodrigo’s dress revealed the singer’s metallic silver heels.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Their bathroom floor also pooled with water after showering, and noise from other apartments, like the shrill beeps of a low-battery smoke detector next door, carried through the paper-thin walls.
    Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 22 Apr. 2025
  • As such, The Studio is shrill and talky, its chaotic scenes sparked by random performers like Charlize Theron, Zac Efron, Olivia Wilde and Sarah Polley, all of whom want something from Remick.
    Peter Bart, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Whatever his political intent, Lai has become more strident on cross-Taiwan Strait questions in recent weeks.
    Ian Bremmer, Time, 26 Apr. 2025
  • That strategy drew a furious response from some of the city’s employee unions, who distributed posters comparing Villaraigosa to Wisconsin’s then-Gov. Scott Walker, viewed at that time as a strident foe of organized labor.
    David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The defending champions are now in real danger of being eliminated with the next two games at a raucous Madison Square Garden.
    Matias Grez, CNN Money, 8 May 2025
  • Newsrooms then were raucous places, filled with loud voices, the constant clacking of typewriters, cigarette smoke and big, colorful personalities.
    Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2025
Adjective
  • The most jarring and overlooked illustration of the CCP's pervasive influence and investment is mere miles off the southeast coast of the U.S. in the Caribbean islands.
    Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
  • For young children explicit content can be quite upsetting, shocking, and jarring.
    Michaeleen Doucleff, NPR, 30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The creatively dissonant effort drove a nearly 10% month-over-month increase in store brand sales and a 12% increase across the category; expanded 7-Eleven’s in-house creative agency, producing campaigns faster and cheaper, all while also reducing plastic bag usage by 37%.
    Seth Matlins, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The book cover, showing a happy couple on a beach accompanied by a dog with a stick in its mouth, seems cheerily dissonant.
    Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • For example, secondary insomnia can develop due to issues such as chronic pain, a noisy environment, or stress about finances.
    Smita Patel, Verywell Health, 28 Apr. 2025
  • In a noisy job market, your personal brand, digital presence, and network are critical assets.
    Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The Miz, often derided as a wrestler for his flamboyant and grating onscreen personality, is few people’s idea of a WrestleMania main-event talent, so his win makes the 27th event stand out as kind of an oddity.
    Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
  • His political opponents viewed him as grating, uncooperative, and at times dogmatic.
    Daniel R. DePetris, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Clanging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clanging. Accessed 11 May. 2025.

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