He was not yet sufficiently adept on the big webs to keep them from clacking as the rim of one shoe passed over the rim of the other.
For the next fifteen minutes the three boys tramped back and forth in front of the cabin, the shoes clacking merrily amid a running fire of chaff and comment from Pat.
I knew what the clack-clacking was then; it was this party's joints working together, and his elbows knocking against his sides as he walked.
I suppose that for as much as two hours these sad outcasts went clacking by, laden with their dismal effects, and all that time I sat pitying them.
He was hardly gone when I heard the clacking again, and another one issued from the shadowy half-light.
Tall clacking machines ran closely around the walls of the room, down the middle stood a double row of tables; and at each machine, and at every possible place at the tables, sat a woman crowded upon a woman, and another and another.
What had she, of all people, to fear from the clacking tattle of a few old cats?
It's from his mother he's taken his liking for clacking words, then," he said.
The lady of the countryside, if it comes to that, and for you to sit there, tapping and clacking that thing, is as good as telling everybody y' were a wench had to twist up wool for a living a few years ago.
At the foot of Clifford Hill Still I hear the clacking mill, And the river's running still Under the trysting tree.
But the katikiro was greatly tickled when the boy reluctantly interpreted the opprobrious term, and he went away chuckling and clacking the native word kapa between his lips with much enjoyment.
Soon theclacking of nine hundred tongues ceased, and the camp lay all peaceful beneath the rising moon.
Drearily a cold swan swept up the water, trailing its black feet, clacking its great hollow wings, rocking the frightened water hens, and insulting the staid black-necked geese.
It was high noon, but the women still found leisure-time to hear the music of their own tongues, loud and continuous as the clacking of mill paddles.
Then she took her stick and crept out of the kitchen, her wooden shoes clacking loud on the bare red bricks.
Well, its roof covered with velvet mosses, its clacking hens, its grunting pig, its straying heifer, all its rural graces have a horrible meaning.
By day in the shop, that rumbled with the clacking din of the tireless shoe-machines, they were separated.
Stephen went down Bedford row, the handle of the ash clacking against his shoulderblade.
Buck Mulligan suddenly linked his arm in Stephen's and walked with him round the tower, his razor and mirror clacking in the pocket where he had thrust them.
At every stride his loose-hung, wide-cleft, spreading hoofs came sharply together with a flat, clacking noise.
Under a tall water-ash some rods back from the shore of the cove, there was a sharp, clacking sound, and a movement which caused a huge blur of lights and shadows to differentiate itself all at once into the form of a gigantic bull-moose.
If I was standin' up you'd hear my knees clacking together.
He whirled the horse and rode away toward the lower ground behind the house, the coffeepot clacking rhythmically against the barrel of the Winchester Hazel had vainly hoped he would forget to take with him.
Una was conscious that they had gone, that walls of silence were closing about her clacking typewriter.
Mary Ellen, bending over the fence of the chicken yard, and noting with pleasure the hurrying, clacking throng of fowls that answered and swarmed about her.
But it was given to "Clacking Joe" to speak the final words ere they turned their faces homewards.
He paused, and as the clacking stopped a woman who had been reading a novel on the veranda rose up noiselessly and listened over the railing.
Then she straightened up proudly and when McBain began to dictate her machine went on clacking defiantly.
As I watched, it made some more clacking noises, and the man beside it, whom I recognized as the bartender, frowned and clacked something back.
It flickered out a horrible-looking tongue that resembled a segment of hollow rubber tubing, and made some clacking noises.
No outcry came from the room, just the vociferous clacking noises, and an occasional mutter from one of the surrounding men.
Man and sugarfoot were still clacking away at one another, neither side giving ground.
It was this something else which was emitting the clacking noises I'd heard.
To spin soft wool was a better trade for evening than the clacking insistence of the little wheel with its more demanding flax.
I had worked at it far into the night, until I marveled that the ancient occupants of the surrounding rooms did not enter a combined protest against the clack-clacking of my typewriter keys.
Upward half way, or it may be Nearer the summit, slowly steals A hay-cart, moving dustily With idly clacking wheels.
Which brings to mind that I have drunk no morning draught this day," he added, clacking his tongue and winking at the Weasel.
She kept up such a continual clacking and scolding because those ducks didn't act like chickens that I got to thinking that they must be unusually trying creatures.
It must think that when it gets them creaking and clacking it is doing mischief.
A reaper is clackingfaintly in the distance, and somehow the hour of ease seems sweeter because of the knowledge that some one is working.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clacking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
