He could hear running footfalls and the clunking of military gear outside this room.

Instead, he waited for the clunking of the mechanical holdtights.

No answer but the bells, the tunesome insects, and that odd wooden clunking.

There ain't no music playing or nothing like there usually is, just the sound of people talking and the clunking of the fruit machine.

The clunking of windlasses came from all the shipsas they followed theGriffin and began to weigh their anchors.

The celebratory clunking of their ejected winnings drowned the bar for thirty seconds, and by then the two men were once again sitting in silence.

This time the beds were bigger, and the usual clanking and clunking of the night barely register in a cocoon of comfort.

The recorded clunking of footfalls, the drumming fingers of some nervous or blasé participant --the president himself?

You'll taste garlic snails, cumin chickpeas, glistening olives and glasses of sweet mint tea, the air filled with calls to prayer, screeching seagulls and the clunking of fishing boats.

Bound and helpless, the girls lay in total darkness with only the rhythmic clunking of the nearby ice machine and the distant chattering of one of the elevators to break the stillness.

We crossed rich pastureland where the only sound was birdsong and the clunking of cowbells; moved slowly through the pine forest; skirted ridges from which the whole of the valley could be seen.

During the day there has been hammering, the clunking of metal and the roar of tractor engines as the children and their team leaders help take down their tents and dismantle the camp.

As the dwarf shrugged, the Ambassador surged into a rotary; the roundabout turn caused several tennis balls to roll across Farrokh's feet, and the doctor heard the clunking of squash-racquet handles from under Vinod's elevated seat.

Altogether they do nothing to prevent the BK Railway from following a straight surveyed line, or to stop its trains from traveling at an even pace marked by the measured clunking of four-wheeled carriages on rail joints.

On quiet nights, when I hear the mysterious clunking of water being turned into icy slices, I recall the bill for the expensive copper tubing that was snaked through the joists of the ripped-up floor by an equally expensive plumber.

She would he awake every night for hours, sensing the distant clunking of her answer machine under the pillow in the next room, and run through this series of thoughts over and over again, like a rat on a treadmill, exhausting herself but never going anywhere.

At Huron's rail a dozen of her crew were hacking at the grappling lines with axes, the clunking of the blades into her timber blended with the popping of pistols and muskets as their mates blazed down on the swarm of seamen climbing up from the gunboat's deck.

With the clunking of the rotary locking mechanism and the hatch airtight-sealed against the ring on the outside flange of the conning tower, the rising and falling sirens had become a barely heard wailing, the sound of his neighbours banging on the entrance lid just the muffled tapping of insects.

There was the clunk of a glass being set down.

There was a clunk as she put it down herself.

A hard clunk at the back of the motor home.

There was a clunk from deep inside it, and a door opened in the side.

The answer is simple: it's the sound of wrong notes going clunk.

The chair came down on its front legs with a clunk.

Now I hear its clunk as he snaps it open.

There came a clunk from the door, and a muffled voice on the other side called out.

There was a clunk as the phone went down, probably on the kitchen counter.

About how the clunk of that dead key was driving me crazy.

Its two halves dropped with a clunk on the floor.

The clunk of our boots is what attracted them to us.

From the Clunk, she has learned how a thing's opposite holds it together.

The boy felt a silent black clunk fall through his flesh.

It hit the floor with a clunk and rolled across the stone.

It gives a terrible kind of clunk on the page.

There was a clunk and she cried out, but by then I'd closed the door behind me again.

A loud clunk means you will soon be shopping for parts.

They slid down the back door and landed with a clunk.

A dull clunk sounded from the other side of the door.

The clunk is surely there to remind us of this.

Behind me, the heavy door shut with a dull clunk.

And I heard the clunk of the door again.

A push - a long wait - a clunk from the water beneath.

I replaced it with a little clunk on the bedside table.

Each time it clunks up or down, you think you've hit something.

May's phone clunked around on some surface, and she was back.

He fell back, and clunked his head on the floor.

She did not turn until after the door had clunked shut.

When I'm clunking my way through the game and getting killed every 10 minutes, will it still be as cool?

He heard it click against the wall of the well, then clunk into something.

No time to shout out - the door clunked behind him.

He heard it clunk down in the brush, short of the mark.

Slowly his head came forward and clunked on the desk top.

Finally I heard sounds; something was clunking against the roof.

The pocket with the gun in it clunked against the wall.

The engine clunked twice and died, but that was all right.

You could almost hear the logic counters clunking into place.

The wall clock in the incident room clunked away another minute.

He clunked the beer bottle down on the coffee table.

His boots clunked as he walked to the door and stepped out.

Less than five minutes after she started, the shovel's blade clunked on the can.

The front legs of his chair clunked back onto the stone floor.

He jumped backward as the bar clunked to the floor.

But then he clunks a forehand well beyond all the lines.

With that, he clunked his glass down and swept out of the cabin.

Keller clunked off the steps and hurried to his side.

Maggie clunked into the room in her enormous black shoes.

One arrow clunks on the stone wall by the first wagon.

Something clunked inside the object she was working on.