clattery
Example Sentences
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The chord progression and clattery percussion on “Dead Women” evoke “Lay Lady Lay,” while Mitski’s song imagines someone pawing through her things after death, trying to uncover her secrets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
Disney Hall is famed for its vivid acoustics, yet at relatively close proximity details could be still be hard to pick out in the clattery texture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
What follows is a lot of clattery, only intermittently funny comic riffing by Rogen and Franco as they play bumbling but well-meaning bourgeois nerds who are forced into physical action.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 18, 2014
Then he held the bow horizontally and began to mash it on the instrument, fiberglass on aluminum, straight across the row of bars or at angles to it, producing clattery tone clusters of different sizes.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2012
The footfall in the hall this time was decided and not clattery.
From Dorothy Dale in the City by Margaret Penrose
