Clicking
[klɪk]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Click
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Examples
- As for hindrance to this step, there offered not so much as a creaking hinge or a clicking latch. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Electricity fascinated him, and he could watch the machines and listen to the music of their clicking by the hour. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The tongs made a pleasant clicking sound and I could see Catherine in three mirrors and it was pleasant and warm in the booth. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- These movements give rise to the clicking sounds which represent the dots and dashes of the Morse or other alphabet as transmitted by the operator. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In the street, umbrellas were the only things to be seen, and the clicking of pattens and splashing of rain-drops were the only sounds to be heard. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- First comes the clicking machine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I lay and listened to the rain on the canvas and the clicking of the car over the rails. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- As for tickers, as poor Rawdon called watches, her apartments were alive with their clicking. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He Pushed the knob that set the second hand to clicking and watched it move around. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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