Sound from a forge

Usage examples of clang.

With the crowd in raptures, cannon pounding, church bells clanging, Washington bowed still again and then, Adams at his side, moved back to deliver his inaugural address to a seated Congress.

A metal clanging shattered the still air as the green priest Arcas worked with a simple hydraulic assembly.

Hammell, Morrissey, and Bergen were awakened by a clanging, bonging noise so loud and rude as to bring them all out of their bunks in a nasty frame of mind.

With one sweep of his powerful arm, the Count threw the door shut, and the great bolts clanged and echoed through the hall as they shot back into their places.

The breechblocks of the wall guns clanged as the gunners cammed them open, then closed again after the loaders dropped in fresh rounds.

The clang of the breechblocks was lost under the growing, drumming thunder of thousands of hooves.

The shuttle shuddered and Charlton felt several clangs beneath his feet.

The Christchurch townsfolk stood huddled about the Bridge of Avon, the women pulling tight their shawls and the men swathing themselves in their gaberdines, while down the winding path from the castle came the van of the little army, their feet clanging on the hard, frozen road.

Strange shouts of denunciation blended with the harsh braying of horns, and the clang and clash of cymbals and tambours sounded in every quarter of the city.

A clang of drums, trumpets, and cymbals announced the arrival of the Hebrew army.

She stayed with him as they threaded their way past white-coated chefs in tall white hats rushing to and fro between stoves, ovens and countertops, dinnerware and pots clinking and clanging.

Behind the dorms, the lid of a trash bin clanged shut right before a boy - it might have been Tom Cruise - knocked, whispered, and got some help climbing in from whoever had climbed in before him.

Church of Elish as a major player among the religions of the world, the bringer of an old truth made new, but Kelsey knew from the pounding of the drums, the clanging of the cymbals, the tootling of the flutes, that what he had dreaded was about to happen.

She places another card faceup on the sofa, this one a robed man carrying a lantern, and the rain has picked up again, sounds like a drumroll, tree branches scraping against window glass, wind chimes a distant, frantic clanging.

A sixty-pound boulder struck a massive headplate with a clang heard the length of the bridge, but the beast halted only long enough to trumpet his pain and displeasure, then came slowly on.