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clatter

[klat-er] / ˈklæt ər /




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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

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

Tariq drops a handful of Lego bricks so they clatter on the floor.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

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

He clatters into the Burkina Faso captain Koffi in goal.

From The Guardian Jan. 29, 2022

In the morning the Germans run him through a second, more laconic spell of questioning while a typist clatters away in the corner.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Persistent rain turned torrential and the first two throws of the women's hammer throw slipped from athletes' grip and clattered into the cage as thunder cracked above the arena.

From BBC Jul. 28, 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

“That boy is a perfect cyclops, isn’t he?” said Amy one day, as Laurie clattered by on horseback, with a flourish of his whip as he passed.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Once it missed the dishwasher altogether, sending a plate clattering to the floor.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 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

Johnson was dismissed in the 55th minute after clattering into Lopez, a needless challenge that initially earned a yellow card from Erik Lambrechts before VAR sent him trudging to the dressing room.

From Barron's Nov. 4, 2025

Track 80, “Room Service Ooh,” is exactly what it sounds like, with a clattering lid being lifted off a plate followed by Lindhome’s exclamation at what’s underneath.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 30, 2025

But the clattering kept on, followed soon enough by two voices yelling.

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss




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