clatter
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The tires on my faithful old bicycle had finally given out and I had joined the hundreds clattering about town on metal wheel rims.
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The stovepipe came clattering down from the ceiling, belching a bushel of black soot all over us and the room, including the head of Abraham Lincoln.
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Then she heard new sounds: the clatter of rocks, the groans of a dying tree.
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A clatter of hooves and wagon wheels drawing up to the side of the house snapped her attention back to my laundry, and she finished transferring it into her basket.
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Hannie spun on her heel and stomped upstairs, her feet clattering loudly on every wooden step.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.