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clatter

[klat-er] / ˈklæt ər /




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Mr. Coffin et al. stage a colorful but uninteresting clatter of random mayhem, only occasionally interrupted by an ironic wink: “We are no longer evil,” announces Goomi.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

“Couture’s” three principals rarely interact with one another, but those meaningful exchanges argue that, amid the mad clatter of the everyday, a brief, unguarded moment with a stranger can be supremely restorative.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

At Encirc's Elton factory, where bottles clatter along the conveyor belts to be filled and labelled, executives say energy prices are inseparable from the push to decarbonise.

From Barron's Feb. 18, 2026

Aromatics are where things begin: ginger, garlic, onions and their cousins; the soft clatter of mirepoix or soffritto; a bloom of spices warming in fat.

From Salon Feb. 8, 2026

Presently he took them off and dropped them on my bureau with an absent clatter.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

She watches a humanoid robot totter around a demonstration kitchen until it trips on a chair and clatters to the ground.

From The Wall Street Journal May 8, 2026

A conveyor clatters as the last papers are carried to the bundlers.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 10, 2024

Brian Bathurst is a builder by trade but when we meet he is strapped in the back of a coastguard helicopter as it clatters through the dramatic peaks of Glen Coe.

From BBC Sep. 21, 2023

“Adaptation” was shot on 16 millimeter color film — the projector clatters away in the gallery on a derrick-like stand — using scale models and other practical effects.

From New York Times Mar. 3, 2022

The black box clatters to the ground, but by the time I open my eyes, it has disappeared.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth

A long ball was played forward and Bosnia goalkeeper Nikola Vasilj leapt and punched the ball, but then on the follow-through his fists clattered into the head of Canada striker Tani Oluwaseyi.

From BBC Jun. 12, 2026

Busy markets sold butchered meats and fast-wilting vegetables, horse carts clattered, children shouted, and men and women gossiped in coffeehouses and read from printed newspapers.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 6, 2026

But moments later Davide Bartesaghi clattered into Mikael Ellertsson, leaving Stanciu with the task of beating France goalkeeper Mike Maignan and taking a shock three points.

From Barron's Jan. 8, 2026

In an ordinary industrial building off a busy Orange County street, a Seussian contraption, nearly 100 feet long, clattered to life.

From New York Times Jun. 16, 2024

And the lid clattered to the stony ground, ringing an alarm in the quiet night.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

At the warehouse in Bangkok's Nonthaburi suburb, the sound of people rummaging through products and plastic crates clattering against shopping carts echoes through the building.

From Barron's Jun. 17, 2026

The midfielder's effort was good, but Kinsky's save was better as he turned it over the bar, clattering into the post in the process.

From BBC Apr. 25, 2026

Emphasising that concept, musical motifs from Arirang appear on the album's opening track, Body To Body, harnessed to a clattering hip-hop beat.

From BBC Mar. 20, 2026

He rigged a burglar alarm with foam so it made a loud clattering sound.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 9, 2026

There was a mass clattering of chairs and scraping of forms as everyone was seated.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques




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