Sentence examples for sharp click from inspiring English sources

Each key, with a sharp click, struck an aluminum rod that sent ultrasound waves to the receiver in the set.

I could hear only the swish and thud of galloping hooves and the occasional sharp click of horseshoes striking against each other".

Flaubert wished to close the gap not just between words and emotional truths, but between words and things: the sound of Hippolyte's wooden leg in the church ("They heard on the flagstones something like the sharp click of an iron-shod pole tapping them with even strokes"); the lumbering sway of cattle; the scoop of a hand in sugar-white arsenic.

At night, in the moonlight, as I walked through the town looking for a restaurant that served mojettes, the delicious local white beans my grandmother always made with lamb for Sunday lunch, I could easily imagine running into Madame de Maintenon, Louis XIV's mistress, as a young girl, coming out of the convent she attended, the sharp click of her heels echoing on the silvery pavement.

The telegraphic patter, a rush of keystrokes followed by the thud of the space bar; the zestful (or pensive, or trepidatious) winding sound followed by a sharp click as she pulled on the return lever and hauled the carriage back to begin a new line.

In this experiment, two katydids were presented computer playbacks of 100 sharp click sounds at a uniform rate of two clicks per second, in alternating trials of ordinary incandescent room light and near-complete darkness (six light trials, six dark trials).

First, Dr. Nachtigall and his team found the animals could adjust their hearing in response to their own sounds of echolocation, mainly sharp clicks.

As he passed the footman, standing in the hall, he heard a sharp clicking sound as of heels brought together smartly.

We walked by a dry rice field and a small Buddhist forest monastery, listening to a growing chorus of sharp clicks and tweets.

With short sharp clicks, taps and vibrations for notifications and general feedback, it is genuinely the best thing Apple has created in years.

In one study, Patricia Davies of Colorado State University led a research team that analyzed how children identified as having sensitivity to sounds responded to pairs of sharp clicks, heard through headphones.