clatter
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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
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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
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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
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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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