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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of clunk.

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Examples

  • As the coin clunked somewhere in the machine’s innards, Jenny heard a faint buzzing, then a mechanical ticking.

    THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010

  • As the coin clunked somewhere in the machine’s innards, Jenny heard a faint buzzing, then a mechanical ticking.

    THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010

  • Her comments after her freestyle are still making me laugh, because it was a fairly accurate description when she kind of clunked to the floor … = D

    People.com Latest News 2009

  • Curling into a ball to protect himself as debris tinked and clunked to the ground beside him, Gillespie folded his arms over his head.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • A good plot has unobtrusive elegance and grace; a bad one flattens everything in its path, character, atmosphere, setting, story itself, everything clunked down to a series of events happening one after the other.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Not losing the plot 2009

  • He had a copy of The Sun sticking out his back pocket and huge sovereign rings clunked on his fingers.

    Baby Blue Penny Goring 2011

  • I can imagine Max getting clunked on the head by the 12 foot table.

    7th Street Apartment Interior by Pulltab Design 2009

  • Curling into a ball to protect himself as debris tinked and clunked to the ground beside him, Gillespie folded his arms over his head.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • A good plot has unobtrusive elegance and grace; a bad one flattens everything in its path, character, atmosphere, setting, story itself, everything clunked down to a series of events happening one after the other. on 23 Feb 2009 at 4: 02 pm Abby Godwin

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Not losing the plot 2009

  • A good plot has unobtrusive elegance and grace; a bad one flattens everything in its path, character, atmosphere, setting, story itself, everything clunked down to a series of events happening one after the other.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Not losing the plot 2009

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