clanking
-cliquetant
Present participle of clank.

clank

It's too much clanking with the key ring.
Elle ferait trop de bruit avec le porte clef.
I was hardly asleep when I was awakened by an ominous hubbub; shots, the clanking of weapons, the noise of boots on the stairs, knocking on doors, shouts and curses.
A peine endormi, je fus réveillé par un vacarme significatif : coups de feu, cliquetis d'armes, bruit de bottes dans l'escalier, coups de poing aux portes, cris et injures.
I just started the engine, and it's making this clanking sound.
Je viens de démarrer le moteur et il fait un bruit métallique.
What are we gonna tell him about the clanking noise?
Que vas-tu lui dire à propos du bruit dans la voiture ?
When at last the clanking subsided, I resumed the trowel, and finished without interruption the fifth, the sixth, and the seventh tier.
À la fin, quand le tapage s’apaisa, je repris ma truelle et j’achevai sans interruption la cinquième, la sixième et la septième rangée.
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