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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a click click" is not standard in written English and may be confusing.
It could be used in informal contexts, possibly to describe a sound or action, but clarity is important.
Example: "As I pressed the button, I heard a click click that indicated it was working."
Alternatives: "a clicking sound" or "a double click".
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Each scene begins like a frame taken from an F.B.I. surveillance tape, complete with a "click, click" sound effect and the occasional time stamp, as the character is caught in freeze frame and identified with salient details, like "Carla Facciolo.
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(ii) Subjects who are exposed to uniform successive stimuli – such as the clicks of a metronome – will impose a 'subjective structure' onto them: rather than hearing a monotonous 'click … click …. click …' one finds oneself hearing 'CLICK … click, click CLICK … click, click' or variants thereof.
Jerkity-Click, click, click.
Click, click, click, click, click.
Click click click, that tiny little fucking keypad, click click click.
Out of the symphony, you could isolate certain strains: a wee-wee-wee and a weeeeee and a click-click-click, and a number of other drones and trills and, above it all, an intermittent staccato call that sounded a little like Beavis laughing — ih-ih-ih, ih-ih-ih.
The conservative mind, a repository of fresh ideas just two decades ago, is now little more than a click-click slide projector holding a tray of apocalyptic images of modern life that keeps spinning around, raising the viewer's fever with every rotation.
I wonder how you look… Do you have a click-click to send?
He paused and lifted his camera to capture a duck — click, click, click — rising up out of the wetlands.
A tape player click, click, clicks.
The voice of the barn owl, depending on who is trying to get it on paper, is "a weird scream; a nasal snore; a loud, prolonged rasping sksck; a series of notes click, click, click, click, click, resembling in character the notes of a Katydid, but delivered with diminishing emphasis and shortening intervals during the end of the series".
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