| Every fifteen minutes a train made its appearance, tooting and clacking, regular as clockwork. |
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| The rocking motion of the treadle and the gentle clacking of the machine often lulled the restless child. |
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| There I was clacking along the old Tokaido highway in my heavy wooden clogs. |
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| The constant clacking of manual typewriters pounded a symphony of literary achievement against his sensitive eardrums. |
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| Mandibles clashed, clacking together like snapping tree trunks, and spittle drooled from its fangs. |
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| The dull thud of horse hooves on the packed earth changed suddenly to the loud clacking of iron horseshoes on a paved road. |
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| There was another rustling movement, then a sharp clacking noise, the sound of huge claws clinking against the stone floor. |
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| Just then, the click, clacking of the mortals' shoes were heard as their darkly silhouetted figures stood in the center near the fountain. |
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| Her skin tingled and goosebumps formed, as she hurried inside, her heels clacking along the concrete. |
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| As a fan of cowcatchers and clacking wheels, Elrond Lawrence tracked Salinas Valley rails into the early 20th century. |
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| My teeth began clacking together as soon as we went out into the night, as my warm, sluggish body adjusted to the change. |
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| A grand dame made her entry, progressing to the front row, clacking her heels all the way. |
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| Through the kampong's black palms came the sound of galloping gamelan orchestras and bamboo sticks clacking away the evil spirits. |
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| A minstrel show became four or so men in blackface doing rough and rowdy songs on banjo, fiddle, tambourine and clacking bones, interspersed with japes, skits and dancing. |
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| The sound of DVD cases clacking together brought her back to the video store and she looked toward the sound to see Blake absently flipping through DVDs in a drawer. |
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| They are easily found in the village, by just following the clacking sound of the loom. |
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| The third movement rondo's theme has a taste of Spain, with the clacking of castanets each time the theme appears. |
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| In another basement space the demented, clacking linotype machines stamped out our stories in hot metal while their grey-faced operators somehow stayed noisily blithe. |
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| Hatched litany on clacking percussions, Morgengrauen is a short, but effective, neurotic techno move coated with a mellotron membrane. |
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| Men smoke and sip tea from short, slender glasses, with the clacking of nard, the local version of backgammon, as a soundtrack. |
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| We pass more clumps of bamboo, but taller, older and gray, creaking and clacking as they knock together in the light breeze. |
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| The instant of clacking then is registered on both picture and sound tracks. |
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| Once, the whole of Burton upon Trent used to echo with the clacking of these rough wooden slippers. |
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| We heard Mr. Hodson's whip clacking on the shoulders of the poor little wretches. |
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| In addition to vocal sounds, at least one cuckoo, the North American, or greater, roadrunner, makes nonvocal sounds, clacking the mandibles to produce a rattling noise. |
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| The turn signal starts its distinctive clacking. |
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| Now that she's headed back to Beirut, she's ready to get her sassy heels clacking to prepare for her new album. |
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| A marimba-like hook, softly clacking sticks-patterns and a whirry, looping high trumpet figure patiently unfold the luxuriously stretching opener, skippy jigs alternating with slews of shifting dance grooves. |
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| Ultimately, as Ezra Klein says, the website will work, and the many-geared machinery of Obamacare will heave, wheezing and clacking, into steady motion. |
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| Being the target of a bluff charge can be a disconcerting experience, as the charging bear will be huffing and clacking its jaw or teeth while doing it. |
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| This has lately meant clacking red talons and – painted just so – the Union flag adorning one finger, and the flag of the European Union adorning another. |
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| Malika winced at the sound of her own heels clacking on the sidewalk. |
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| The action begins as darkness falls and the music ramps up with rhythmic, applauselike clacking, which will return as an outro. |
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