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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

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

A nationwide noise ordinance is supposed to limit the din, especially late at night, but residents say the courtside clatter often goes unmuted.

From Barron's Dec. 28, 2025

The scene is a family dinner in which ordinary household noises — the scrapes, plunks and clatter — and speech are pitched at irregular volumes and lack directional focus.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 4, 2025

The leaves we kick aside clatter like tin cans.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

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

But at the very moment of its triumphant recovery, the painting clatters to the floor, by simple accident.

From New York Times Jul. 22, 2021

At the end of the alleyway, Ernesto Brito, nervously attempting a sharp right turn, clatters to the ground.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

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

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

Something slipped out of her hand and clattered to the floor, making her jump.

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

Skeletor is all pixels with a clattering jaw perfect for chewing the scenery.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 3, 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

And the clattering syncopated loop that repeats through “Oblivion” is there mostly as a contrast to the wispy and diaphanous vocals, which are so thin and leavened with reverb that they threaten to float away.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 21, 2025

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

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques




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