clatter
Example Sentences
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She’s coughing so hard one of her knitting needles slides from her lap and clatters to the floor.
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The way Nanuq was clattering around underneath them sounded almost like a person making dinner.
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We climbed aboard the clattering omnibus just as it pulled up, and it carried us all the way to the southern edge of the city, where the prairie grasses grew tall and abundant.
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He rigged a burglar alarm with foam so it made a loud clattering sound.
From Los Angeles Times
At first, Molly thought she was imagining it, the clomping and clatter mixed in with the ordinary traffic of Second Avenue.
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