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It is typically used as a noun or verb and refers to a loud, hollow sound made by an object hitting another object or surface. Example: The old car made a loud clunk as it drove over the pothole. In this sentence, 'clunk' is used as a noun to describe the sound the car made. It could also be used as a verb, for example: The mechanic's hammer clunked against the metal frame of the car. In this sentence, 'clunked' is the past tense of the verb 'clunk' and describes the action of the hammer hitting the car. Other situations where 'clunk' can be used include describing the sound of a heavy object being dropped or the sound of a door closing heavily.
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He is no stylist, and yet the raw power of his narrative trumps the sometimes excruciating clunk of his prose.
WITH a heavy clunk, the steel outer doors of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault closed on February 28th, shutting out a howling Arctic gale and entombing a tonne of new arrivals: 25,000 seed samples from America, Colombia, Costa Rica, Tajikistan, Armenia and Syria.
With a satisfying clunk, they matched, restoring the stone's inscription: "Captain Eustace Jotham, VC. 51st Sikhs and North Waziristan Militia.
Microsoft offers two of them, both of which do duty as a cover and are held into place by a pair of satisfyingly clunky magnets (never underestimate the psychological pleasure of a good clunk).
Like that electronic book you're hankering after for Christmas, details of the plot are under wraps, though the Cybermen are expected to clunk their way back into town.
Cars whizz and clunk on to the steel-girdered Bösebrücke Bridge that disappears out over train lines below.
I'm thirty, this is all I've been doing since I was eighteen, I went through all the doors you told me to go through — I mean, fuck!" Clunk.
She sets to work, listening "for the reassuring sound of her men coming home...the solid clunk of well-made parts swinging firmly shut".
Johnny G himself mentioned "dealing with the clunk of the krank arm".
And it has no mirror inside, and therefore no clunk as the mirror swings.
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Savile would invite the girls up to London to see him at the BBC and it was there while watching him record his Clunk-Click road safety advert that Kathleen Webb, 55, was assaulted for the third time by the star.
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