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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

The clatter of cutlery as an atmosphere sours over dinner.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 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

Before he could second-guess himself, Peter hurled his pack and then his crutches up and heard them clatter onto a stony ledge.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

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

Dimitar Mitov comes out in an effort to stop Emiliano Marcondes as he attempts to get his head on Rocky Bushiri's deflected shot and absolutely clatters into the Hibs attacker.

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2024

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2024

That’s saved in style as the Frenchman clatters a winner home.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2022

She’s coughing so hard one of her knitting needles slides from her lap and clatters to the floor.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

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 the next over, Carse produced a beauty that clattered the off stump, only for a marginal overstep to be detected.

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2024

A tattooed skateboarder clattered over sidewalks, and a man sat on a bench in the shade, reading the Bible and taking notes near the opera house where the musical “Oklahoma” was playing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024

She huffed loudly as the screen door clattered shut.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia

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

It switches between a ghostly, vaporous beat and a hectic middle passage filled with sampled and pitched-up voices and clattering percussion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2026

In the heat of my front hall, with my teeth clattering together, I watched the lady and her coat flapping out there in the cold wind.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx