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“Couture’s” three principals rarely interact with one another, but those meaningful exchanges argue that, amid the mad clatter of the everyday, a brief, unguarded moment with a stranger can be supremely restorative.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

There’s Mrs. Duggan’s sitting room, for example, with its “faint, high whistling of the gas fire”; and “the weary clatter of half-hearted washing-up” in a depressing cafe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 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

There was the clatter of metal on metal.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

“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

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 clatters a plate of eggs, toast, and a cup of tea in front of me.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

Busy markets sold butchered meats and fast-wilting vegetables, horse carts clattered, children shouted, and men and women gossiped in coffeehouses and read from printed newspapers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 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

A tattooed skateboarder clattered over sidewalks, and a man sat on a bench in the shade, reading the Bible and taking notes near the opera house where the musical “Oklahoma” was playing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024

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

“Toni-eeeeee...” hoof beats clattered on the concrete and the hatchet face of the Kid passed me by.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

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

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

I heard something metal struck to the floor in clattering pieces.

From "Worth" by A. LaFaye