Sentences with phrase «clacking on»

If you notice your pet's nails click - clacking on hard floors, it's probably time to bring them in for a trim.

Not exact matches

The only notable sound is the clack of the packing - tape machine, signaling that another unit is on its way out the door, that another person will gain a little more independence.

Amid the hum of the motors on the street, I also hear the clackety clack of hooves hitting the cobblestones, the sound of a legion of cartoneros, people who scavenge in the streets each night trying to fill their horse - drawn carts with old newspapers, packing cartons, aluminum cans or edible scraps.

From then on the two exchanged quips and gifts like Mr. and Mrs. Hart — flowers, candy, a dictionary, clacking plastic teeth and, on gold medal night, champagne and a stuffed puppy.

Clack, an underrated shot blocker who can play four positions, averaged 9.4 points per game last year and came on strong in the postseason, scoring 16.0 points and 6.5 rebounds a game in the NCAA tournament.

He could hear the clack of his teammates» cleats on the pavement behind him and the cheers of Eagles fans who had turned around from the top row of the bleachers to cheer the team on.

But what was truly surreal was that just as the last dramatic guitar chord was struck, the last castanet clacked, the last foot stamp nearly split the stage, the dancers struck their final pose, and the small audience roared and whistled, with perfect timing up flashed the final score on the big TV screen, Burnley 1 Stoke 0.

In lay and play mode, this Gym allows baby to lay on their back and look up at their reflection in the mirrored sun or swat at and practice grabbing the five dangling toys that spin, clack and smile back, all while chubby baby feet kick at the large buttons on the piano to hear the music.

The girls are in ballet & tap class and little brother loves putting on their shoes and clacking around.

On the tray around them, baby will find a sliding caterpillar, a colorful light - up piano, and clacking rings.

If you're a fan of public radio, you will very much appreciate this video of Rep. Anthony Weiner, a Queens Democrat, «thanking» his GOP colleagues — tongue firmly in cheek — for pushing a vote on whether to defund NPR, «protecting» the American people from Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers.

Despite the popularity of the ZX80 — the company purportedly sold 100,000 of them worldwide that year — the readers of Discover were evidently still clacking away on typewriters in 1981.

Clack, however, believes a reassessment of the consensus view on tetrapod evolution might be in order.

From where I stood, surrounded by about 50 others atop one of the martian - red hills on the coast of Durotar, all sounds were drowned out by the whirring and clacking of someone's mechanical squirrel.

VCE takes the initial expertise, passion, and drive of Dr Clack and focuses on the industry itself to facilitate greater understanding, competition and transition for customers, users and stakeholders.

Countless films have shown crowded newsrooms in the past, but Spielberg makes sure that this one is extra busy and loud — that the clicking and clacking and shouting on the soundtrack, the reporters and editors working away or striding about, conjure not just a particular time and place, but a whole world that's been lost.

Tangerine is a heartwarming tale of humanity punctuated by the clack of prostitutes» heels on sun - baked L.A. streets, by screaming matches in divey motels, and the admonishments of a doughnut - shop owner threatening to call the cops if everybody doesn't shut up.

But Johnson doesn't cutaway on the saber clacks the way George Lucas did.

He overwhelmed the delicate emotional timbres of Atonement, Ian McEwan's wrenching wonder of a novel, with Dario Marianelli's clacking score and a heap of overeager visual ta - das, most notably a stunningly mounted but largely unnecessary five - minute tracking shot on the beaches of — you guessed it — Dunkirk.

But what was meta on the page became fetish in cinematic form, so the clackety - freakin» - clack of Briony's typewriter, like that infernal word — oh, that infernal word!

I found myself in an inner - city middle school classroom without a clue as to how to discipline students beyond the escalating volume of my come - to - order voice (I often went home hoarse) or the clacking of a wooden stick that I whacked on my desk for attention.

Tom and Ray Magliozzi - better known as Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers - are hosts of Car Talk, which airs at 10 a.m. Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays on WMFE - FM (90.7).

You can piggyback on their comments by explaining some poetry fundamentals after they've already observed them (e.g., ««Click clack» is an example of onomatopoeia, and poets use this device to suggest sounds, even coining new words in the process»).

Worst of all, it means taking on the gargantuan, money - hungry Grand Trunk clacks communication monopoly and its bloodthirsty piratical head, Mr. Reacher Gilt.

The only sounds in the world were the clacking of the pink and white beauties on the lake and our feet crunching the salt - encrusted shores as we raced the quickly fading light to catch the spectacle.

The Inchanga Choo Choo is a steam train named Wesley that has been around since the 1930's and now has the wonderful task of steaming to life on the last Sunday of each month and transporting passengers on a round trip from Kloof to Inchanga... There is something relaxing about sitting back while listening to the clackety - clack of the train while gazing out at the beautiful scenery and rural scenes that make up the Valley of 1000 Hills.

With the water gently rocking the yachts, the clacking of the rigging on masts, the jumping of fish only feet away, the call of the seabirds and the conversation with the occasional sailer departing or arriving, makes it a wonderful experience to paint by the waters edge no matter how far inland.

Thinking back on it now, I can still hear the «clack, clack!»

debundling the kinect is a positive note the clack tusk thing is true, but they're making a new gears of war so its a win too i only see indie games are missing on X1 other wise it have same line up as PS4 and better exclusives so far...

When I play Pokemon online with voice chat on 3ds or ds I do hear a lot of clicking and clacking from the buttons.

If the Hyper Clack is a success, I'd love to see a modern, functional riff on this beauty:

The thin metallic «clack» of Hito Steyerl cracking a screen in her «STRIKE» (2010) video is playing on loop at its entrance as it occurs to me that Beyoncé's presence was only felt at Frieze last year through the popular icon as self - image in Jonathan Horowitz's eponymous mirror.

Each photograph is juxtaposed with a pair of gridded drawings, which look at first as if they might have been issued on an old, clickety - clack dot - matrix printer or an IBM Selectric typewriter.

Think of the jarring sound track of Vertical Roll, 1972 — probably Jonas's best - known single - channel video — characterized by the metallic clang of a spoon relentlessly banging on a mirror, then the sharp clack of two wooden blocks repeatedly hitting each other, the latter device echoed in Delay Delay, 1972, and Songdelay, 1973.

A lot of the systems design that people are looking at — like Christopher Clack — even if you can get the renewables up to 80 percent, then you have a piece there probably natural gas «peakers» [power plants that run in periods of high electricity demand], at least based on current technology, are way cheaper than any [energy] storage.

One way to address the car problem is advocated by Click & Clack, the Tappet Brothers on NPR's Car Talk.

Dear friends & critics, After much deliberation and having brought to light the corrections of fact required in the Clack paper, I have decided to move on and voluntarily dismiss the lawsuit.

Christopher Clack of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colorado, went on record then with a proposal that could deliver clean power to all 50 US states.

While the Alienware 15's traditional keyboard doesn't deliver the loud click - clack that I love on mechanical keyboards, it definitely delivers comparable feedback, thanks to the steel - reinforced keys.

When you get going on a Word document — like, say, a product review — the clicks and clacks become loud, but that's half the pleasure.

The MateBook X Pro's full - size keyboard feels spot - on to the fingers, with enough clack to the keys, without the need for them to travel excessively far per press.

Storybooks - «Click Clack», «That's the Sound the Street Makes», «Izzy on Holiday», «Izzy at the Park», «Izzy in the City» and «Jeffrey»