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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

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

Saka's ability to take contact from defenders that clatter into the back of him is something he has mastered in the safer environment of the right wing and is invaluable centrally.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 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

I grabbed the shears from his hand and threw them, with a clatter, on the bricks.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2024

Brian Bathurst is a builder by trade but when we meet he is strapped in the back of a coastguard helicopter as it clatters through the dramatic peaks of Glen Coe.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2023

“Adaptation” was shot on 16 millimeter color film — the projector clatters away in the gallery on a derrick-like stand — using scale models and other practical effects.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2022

She tries to put her cup back in the saucer, but this time she misses completely and it clatters and spills tea all over the table.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

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 I put the scrubs on something clattered to the floor and a colleague spotted the ring and alerted me," Mr Shah said.

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2024

A moment later, the screen door clattered behind him.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

It's touching and poignant, but a clattering breakbeat is a distraction from the sentiment.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 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

“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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2026

He drove all twelve miles like that, cackling as if it were a game, as if we were both in on it, as if my teeth weren’t clattering.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover