| In the old days off-roading involved clunking mechanical levers and double declutching. |
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| Drop it down to second with some clunking from the sequential box, the revs rise, press the pedal to the floor and the world blurs. |
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| I stare through the comic turns, the cardboard walls and doors, the creaky plots, the clunking dialogue. |
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| I tried to slow my breathing as I listened to my mother's footsteps clunking up the stairs. |
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| I could often be found clunking around on the mountain bike, although always on a paved trail or street. |
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| She heard clunking sounds above her, as if someone were moving around in the hayloft. |
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| A gentle drumbeat begins clunking out of the speakers, along with a simple, tinny, synthesized melody. |
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| Giving them a moment to embrace, he stepped forward toward them, steel boots clunking against the floor with great dramatic effect. |
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| Mother came clunking up the stairs, and yelled, before she had to open the door. |
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| He shook his head and almost expected to hear the sound of something clunking around. |
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| She followed in her wake, and she could hear the sound of her boots clunking on the ground. |
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| How to explain why I find the clunking metaphor of the train charming in its ungainliness? |
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| I winced in pain, so distracted by his intensity that I was deaf to the clunking of boots on the concrete floor. |
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| The cover had slid closed after that, clunking down securely. |
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| Not everyone enjoys the sub-Countdown graphics and clunking puns, which Neil admits to writing himself, as he revels in its cheesiness. |
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| Behind me, I heard footsteps, clunking against the black asphalt. |
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| The sound of desks clunking and the shuffling of feet against the linoleum, filled her ears, as she got her materials organized and finally went to the front of the class. |
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| A clunking old metal elevator struggled to make its way to the ground floor, then grudgingly opened its doors to allow myself and a frazzled woman to embark. |
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| There was always a dose of naivety to their zeal, not to mention clunking racial tokenism. |
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| It evokes new millennium visions of robots clunking around in factories. |
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| There are clunking changes of tone, weak direction, a lack of energy in too many of the scenes and some silly choreography. |
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| It's slick to the point of vacancy, and even catchier numbers like Everybody Nose are clunking. |
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| But he will need an angrier tone than he found for the expenses scandal, while avoiding the clunking class war that helped Labour lose a by-election last year. |
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| Shortly after taking off, the pilot reported a clunking noise from the engine and abandoned the flight. |
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| Hancock, ever the gent, declines to identify the Birmingham PR agency responsible for this clunking attempt at marketing. |
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| There's no real lurching, clunking or whirring to signify transitions between electric and diesel operation – although there are the usual hybrid dash displays that show you what's going on. |
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| Do you hear any knocking or clunking sounds? |
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| Immediately, thereafter, a clunking sound similar to that of an out-of-balance washing machine was heard and the helicopter began to rock fore and aft on the skids. |
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| But mechanical dialogue, a slow pace and labouring under a huge debt to the classic Bladerunner, has it clunking along in second gear. |
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| If only they'd t ff then clenched to form a clunking fist and he'd used it on behalf of all the people who've been made jobless, depressed and despairing. |
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