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
There was an incoherent medley of song fragments from “Pippin,” “Hair”and “Jesus Christ Superstar,” during which his backup trio, conducted by David Loeb, sounded clattery.
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2012
She was so gay and responsive that one did not mind her heavy, running step, or her clattery way with pans.
From My Antonia by Willa Sibert Cather
