What is "clanks"

Usage examples of "clanks".

As though coming alive and revenging itself on its tormentors, the bridge takes off, scampers down the hill with great squeals and clanks, and leaps up on a leading tank with a hellish colliding crash and a shower of sparks.

He and Lauterman walk behind them, as the bridge ponderously follows with its accustomed clanks, squeals, and rambles.

A change of vibration and and pressure, and a few muted clanks, told Miles their ship was now breaking from Pol Six.

Some hissing and clanks, and the shuttle popped away from its mothership and started on its trajectory.

After endless minutes, the usual clanks and yanks signaled undocking, and the shuttle spun away from the station.

With clanks and thumps, they finished loading, and their van lumbered into the air and headed north.

I was halfway through the downstairs door when a cacophony of rumbles, rattles, wheezes, and clanks caught my attention.

Tombstone could feel the ponderous movement of the Jefferson as she moved slowly into the wind, and he could hear the familiar clanks and rattles as the deck crew broke down his aircraft, preparing for the launch.

The familiar succession of clanks, rattles, and thumps followed as the hook-up men clipped the launching bar on the Tomcat's nose gear to the catapult shuttle--riding in its slot on the flight deck.