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“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

There’s Mrs. Duggan’s sitting room, for example, with its “faint, high whistling of the gas fire”; and “the weary clatter of half-hearted washing-up” in a depressing cafe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 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

Dishes clatter, steam bursts from large cooking pots and music is seeping through the bustling chatter of Russian pensioners, hunched over bowls of free meals in a Saint Petersburg soup kitchen.

From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026

There is no clatter of runs or chutes, no cursing, no flying coils of rope, no hitching of teams.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

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

He clatters into the Burkina Faso captain Koffi in goal.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 29, 2022

She tries to put her cup back in the saucer, but this time she misses completely and it clatters and spills tea all over the table.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

But the moment that may have sealed Argentina’s fate came in the final minutes of second-half stoppage time when Enzo Fernández clattered into Spanish center back Pau Cubarsí at midfield, flipping him head over heels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

Wine spilled and serving trays clattered to the ground as people screamed and sobbed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 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

The knife clattered to the floor, but George didn’t try to get it.

From "I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912" by Lauren Tarshis

Once it missed the dishwasher altogether, sending a plate clattering to the floor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

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

“Ups & Downs” is an instrumental with a droning keyboard—perhaps a harmonium—along with a clarinet and clattering percussion that sounds like a drum kit being slowly unpacked from its case.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 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

I push all the books and papers and to-do lists off my desk, everything clattering loudly to the ground.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott