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clanging

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verb

present participle of clang

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for clanging
Adjective
  • The OnePlus Buds 4 come in two colors Zen Green and Storm Gray, with a matte metallic finish.
    Prakhar Khanna, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
  • And then, Michael Bay showed up in 2007 and turned the nifty shapeshifters into screeching metallic war machines who died violent digital deaths and rained sparks and destruction upon cities — for seven movies and counting.
    Marc Snetiker, EW.com, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • The orchestration is a touch grotesque, with the first violins given a shrill D two octaves above middle C.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
  • Still, the shrill alarm that echoed on Friday morning as Israel announced airstrikes on neighboring Iran gave her that familiar feeling.
    Isabel Rivera, Miami Herald, 15 June 2025
Adjective
  • Likewise, there is a strident belief right now that getting mega-stars in AI will get you to AGI and ASI.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
  • Both countries are currently governed by strident nationalist coalitions, with an antiglobalization backlash dominating domestic politics.
    WILLIAM HURST, Foreign Affairs, 3 July 2025
Adjective
  • Reporters were not allowed to attend the meeting, but the raucous crowd could be heard from outside.
    Vanessa Romo, NPR, 7 July 2025
  • Johnson was then lauded with the award statuette, to another round of raucous applause.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 6 July 2025
Adjective
  • Somewhere in a far-off third-world nation, children die at a jarring rate from malnutrition.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 6 July 2025
  • Millennial and older thrill-seekers may remember rides like Orient Express, a red double-loop steel roller coaster or Timber Wolf, a jarring wooden coaster that is currently closed for the 2025 season.
    Abbey Briscoe, Kansas City Star, 4 July 2025
Adjective
  • The outside world seems to be growing only more dissonant and chaotic.
    Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 2 June 2025
  • If not, a show that has now been in decline for half its run risks devolving into a mess as self-indulgent, morose, and, well, dissonant as its title character.
    Judy Berman, Time, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • The world is crowded, noisy, and sometimes hostile.
    F. Willis Johnson, Twin Cities, 10 July 2025
  • The negatives included noisy wheels and some faulty stitching.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2025
Adjective
  • Finding the perfect coffee maker has been a perpetual and grating search for me.
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 9 July 2025
  • 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
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“Clanging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clanging. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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