clatter
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The sets have too many doors, the scenes have a delirious number of extras and the actors yell their lines over the distracting clatter of crackling fireplaces, beeping machines and ticking clocks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
The shuffling clatter of domino-shaped ceramic tiles drowned out the women’s laughter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 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
Dishes clatter, steam bursts from large cooking pots and music is seeping through the bustling chatter of Russian pensioners, hunched over bowls of free meals in a Saint Petersburg soup kitchen.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
The clatter of the falling cans sends the rat squealing and sets Mav barking from inside the house.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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“Slap the City” clatters and coos with R&B falsetto and at least makes the blank nihilism of Drake’s dating life feel self-aware.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
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
The 19-year-old's quickest time on the board so far is a 1:18.667 and on his latest run, clatters the kerbs in the borrowed Haas.
From BBC ● May 16, 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
I always hold my breath while I go, since it clatters into the can like a brook down a mountainside.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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But the moment that may have sealed Argentina’s fate came in the final minutes of second-half stoppage time when Enzo Fernández clattered into Spanish center back Pau Cubarsí at midfield, flipping him head over heels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 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
As they passed the last of the sad wooden buildings something whistled past his head and clattered off the street and broke up against the wall of the block building on the other side.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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His dismissal, again like in the first innings, came shortly after being hit by a bouncer, with Starc clattering one into his chest on this occasion.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Once it missed the dishwasher altogether, sending a plate clattering to the floor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Andres Cubas escaped a booking after clattering into Adrien Rabiot.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
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
I'd slid halfway down the curve of the barn roof, clattering between dreaming and waking, before I got my balance back.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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