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How to pronounce clack in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms brattle, clatter
Type of resound, make noise, noise
Type Words
Synonyms clap
Type of noise
Type Words
Synonyms blab, blabber, chatter, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle
Type of verbalize, mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise
Has types babble, blither, blether, smatter, blather
Type Words
Synonyms clack valve, clapper valve
Type of valve
Type Words
Synonyms click, cluck
Type of emit, let loose, let out, utter

Examples of clack

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We're in an almost alpine world as we clickety-clack alongside the Selenga River.
From the ocregister.com
Needles clack with spools of brightly coloured wool as the knitters talk quietly.
From the guardian.co.uk
The clickety-clack of mailing machines replaced the cheering throngs of delegates.
From the newsobserver.com
Equally familiar to locals is the constant click-clack of coupling train cars.
From the orlandosentinel.com
The keyboard also has a slight plastic clickity-clack to it and lacks a backlight.
From the smh.com.au
The weekend invasion begins with the click-clack of thumbtack-adorned shoes.
From the time.com
Mesmerized by the clickety-clack of wheels on track, you have time to dream.
From the time.com
At bedtime I surrender myself to the railroad's rhythmic clack and sleep deliciously.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The old timber floors once again echo to the clickety-clack of the shuttle.
From the nzherald.co.nz
More examples
  • A sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together; may be repeated
  • Clatter: make a rattling sound; "clattering dishes"
  • Clack valve: a simple valve with a hinge on one side; allows fluid to flow in only one direction
  • Cluck: make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens
  • Chatter: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
  • Clack can refer to numerous people: * Boyd Clack, Welsh writer, actor and musician. * Brenda Clack, politician. * Barbara Cooper Clack, world water skiing champion * Darryl Clack, player of American football for the Dallas Cowboys in 1986n* H. ...
  • (Clacks) The technology depicted in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels takes two forms: magical and mechanical. ...
  • An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a clatter; in sound, midway between a click and a clunk; chatter; to make such a sound; to chatter
  • (clacks) a fictional series of semaphore towers in the Discworld novels