Prison-door sound

Usage examples of clank.

She had dreamed about him the night before, rolling, clanking away from her down a straight old macadam road, out in the country, fields and hills in metallic cloudlight toward the end of the day, aware of exactly how many hours and minutes to dark, how many foot-candles left in the sky, bringing behind him like ducklings a line of lamps, generators, and beam projectors each on its little trailer rig, heading for his next job, the next carnival or auto lot, still wanting nothing but the deadly amps transmogrified to light, the great white-hot death-cold spill and flood and thrust, wherever he had to go, on whatever terms he had to take, to get to keep doing it.

Instead of crashing, the helicopter steadied, caught the last bit of available air in the autorotation mode and sank with a loud clanking sound onto the apron.

Don Jose Avellanos, clanking his chains amongst the others, seemed only to exist in order to prove how much hunger, pain, degradation, and cruel torture a human body can stand without parting with the last spark of life.

I would have run, but my backplate clanked behind me like a ceramic cape and caught my heels.

Then there was the sound of rattling chains and the clanking of massive bolts drawn back.

Orders were shouted, drills were held, accompanied by the clashing of bootheels and the clanking of weapons.

But their cries had not been entirely fruitless, for now I heard answering shouts and the footfalls of many men running and the clank of accouterments and the commands of officers.

Which poisoned, body and soul, scarce drags the chain, That lengthens as it goes and clanks behind.

They were working at various stations around the cabin perimeter, making a lot of noise, clanking things, and Fagin was pretty sure he knew what they were up to, and it pissed him off.

It was filling with morning traffic, with its familiar cacophony of shouting voices, ringing horseshoes, the iron clanking of bolts and bars as shops opened along the bridge.

Working gyms in the city were meatier, more burly, with dim overhead lights, chalk dust, labouring fans, and metal everywhere: clanking Nautilus, ringing free weights, clinking dog tags.

The train clanked and jerked around the curves of the Meramec River while snow in drifting curtains swept slow stipples across the black water and the reeds stood up crowned in white.

Soldiers passed by, horses neighed, messtins clanked near the field kitchen.

For a few minutes I could hear the clanking of accoutrements, but even this grew fainter and fainter, until at last the silence was as complete as the darkness.

A bag of nails hit the grass with a sudden clank, followed instantly by the hammer.