clatter

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

A nationwide noise ordinance is supposed to limit the din, especially late at night, but residents say the courtside clatter often goes unmuted.

From Barron's ● Dec. 28, 2025

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

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

“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

The 19-year-old's quickest time on the board so far is a 1:18.667 and on his latest run, clatters the kerbs in the borrowed Haas.

From BBC ● May 16, 2024

Then Evans clatters into Havertz, a calling card right there.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 20, 2021

The container of half-n-half slips from my grip and clatters to the counter.

From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher

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

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

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

The boy nodded over his bowl and his spoon clattered to the floor.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

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

The midfielder's effort was good, but Kinsky's save was better as he turned it over the bar, clattering into the post in the process.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026

He rigged a burglar alarm with foam so it made a loud clattering sound.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2026

The way Nanuq was clattering around underneath them sounded almost like a person making dinner.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz