clatter
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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
The scene is a family dinner in which ordinary household noises — the scrapes, plunks and clatter — and speech are pitched at irregular volumes and lack directional focus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025
There was a clatter of dishes, and after a while the talking stopped.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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“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
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
Then Evans clatters into Havertz, a calling card right there.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 20, 2021
It tumbles down and clatters against its neighbors.
From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell
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But the moment that may have sealed Argentina’s fate came in the final minutes of second-half stoppage time when Enzo Fernández clattered into Spanish center back Pau Cubarsí at midfield, flipping him head over heels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
A long ball was played forward and Bosnia goalkeeper Nikola Vasilj leapt and punched the ball, but then on the follow-through his fists clattered into the head of Canada striker Tani Oluwaseyi.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
The United Press International and Associated Press teletypes clattered away in a corner of the Columbus Citizen-Journal’s newsroom where I worked as a reporter in the 1970s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 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
When they clattered over the first wooden bridge south of the crossroads, Jonathan was still far behind.
From "The Fighting Ground" by Avi
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Surrounded by sons and grandsons under a clattering ceiling fan, Safi showed the tattered identity document he has kept since fleeing the Soviet occupation more than four decades ago.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 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
Skeletor is all pixels with a clattering jaw perfect for chewing the scenery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 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
The airplane comes clattering and roaring through the sky, and whatever might be lurking secretly up there in the great cloud-mountains goes running for cover at its approach.
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
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