Dictionary Entry

clang

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/klæŋ/Used In Literature ↓

A loud, ringing sound, like that made by free-hanging metal objects striking each other.

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. clangassociations clangshut clangclang loudclang metallicclang sharpclang resoundingclang bells

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Poetry examples for “clang”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

The bare black cliff clang’d round him, as he based
His feet on juts of slippery crag that rang

Has drifted deep, the clappers hang
Prismed with icicles, their clang
Unheard since ages long ago.

Fire-footed clomb an infinite space.
I heard his hundred pinions clang,
Heaven-bells rejoicing rang and rang,

Of Despair!
How they clang, and clash, and roar!
What a horror they outpour

Of Despair!
How they clang, and clash, and roar!
What a horror they outpour

The ogre, Life, comes into the room,
(He was waiting and heard the clang of the spring)
To watch you nibble the wondrous cheese,

Press close to the portal,
my gate will soon clang
and your fellow wretches

Twelve little golden birds;
Anon he spurred his steed with a clang,
And there sat all the birds and sang.

Over the level floor of the flood;
All the sails came down with a clang,
And there in the mist overhead

And, starting to each accent, sprang
As from a sudden trumpet's clang:
Meantime my cords were wet with gore, 460