How to Use clatter in a Sentence

clatter

1 of 2 verb

• The wagon clattered down the road.
• The shutters clattered against the house.
• The box dropped and dozens of marbles clattered across the floor.
• He heard dishes clattering in the kitchen.
• On top of that, the sounds from the Metra and L trains came clattering through the walls.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 26 June 2019
• Soon, a boy driving a horse cart came down the lane and clattered past, a switch in his hand.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Mar. 2018
• Moore was then clattered by Overath, and a free kick was awarded.
  — SI.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• Sloane’s hand went lax on the handle, and the knife clattered to the floor, bouncing between their feet.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 30 Sep. 2019
• Bottles and beer cans flew, a handful clattering off the sides of the bus.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
• Cere looked up into the Fifth Brother's shocked eyes as the tiny pieces of what was once his lightsaber clattered to the floor.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2023
• The flogger clatters onto the floor and his hand moves over my belly and up to my breasts.
  — Patti Greco, Cosmopolitan, 3 Jan. 2018
• Neither side wishes to let the ball fly past to clatter onto the floor.
  — Joyce Carol Oates, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• Trees toppled in some spots and hail clattered on pavements.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 12 May 2018
• The Post is a rousing movie, but there’s a creepy silence once the machines stop clattering and the credits roll.
  — Daniel D'addario, Time, 5 Jan. 2018
• There was a time when his wife, Garnett, would be clattering in the kitchen at 5 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day.
  — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 20 Nov. 2019
• That served two purposes: (1) Bears clattering the pots trying to get to the pack would be scared by the noise and (2) the clattering would wake Dave up.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 18 Jan. 2018
• But Slovis and Malepeai clattered into each other and the Trojans turned the ball over on downs.
  — New York Times, 2 Sep. 2019
• In another room, a plastic light cover clattered to the floor.
  — Leah Sottile, Longreads, 15 July 2019
• Still off camera, something is heard clattering on the floor.
  — Jordan Culver, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2019
• Each time a player shakes the grid, the dice clatter around and settle into a new arrangement of letters.
  — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 8 Dec. 2021
• A bulldozer, whose clattering treads suggested the sound of a tank, paused in its work.
  — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2017
• The courtroom clattered with the tapping of keyboards – at least a dozen journalists had been crammed onto the benches that run around the side of the chamber.
  — The Economist, 13 Dec. 2019
• At a section of uneven sidewalk, the robot paused, as if in thought, before clattering over the break.
  — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2020
• Nathan and the Zydeco Cha-Chas, who hooted and clattered through bayou rockers and two-steps.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2020
• Sleeping in shifts, the crews worked nonstop, shucking thousands of scallops released from the dredge in a great clattering whoosh on the wet decks.
  — Laura Trethewey, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2023
• Wedges of hot red and aquamarine collide and clatter apart flinging off shards of yellow and splinters of black and white.
  — Stephen Ellis, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2019
• But no one could hear what the elephants were humming to themselves, in the deep subsonic of their own frequency, as the drums clattered and gongs crashed.
  — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• Hail and ice pellets may pelt motorists on Highways 101 and 1 as thunder clatters the coastal areas.
  — Nora Mishanec, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2023
• The buck, assessed at six points for the number of tines on its antlers, clattered out through a different window, the wildlife agency said in a statement.
  — Alex Johnson, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2019
• The power had gone out, and the weather was bad, with ferocious winds violently shaking trees and clattering the store’s glass doors.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023

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clatter

2 of 2 noun

• At dinner that night, the mess was silent save for the clatter of forks on plates.
  — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2019
• The noise in the dining room is little more than a low hum against the clatter of plates and cups.
  — Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• The stillness was shattered by its whining clatter and the buzz of the prop.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
• The clink of ice in a glass, the clatter of a good shake, the smooth stream of a measured pour — the sounds of cocktail hour can be a balm.
  — Rebekah Peppler, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2021
• Cooking is done beneath the floor, to prevent the clatter of pots and pans.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2018
• The noises of the city—street venders, horses’ hooves, the clatter of carts, songs and arguments—filled the air.
  — Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
• There will also be the honk of late-night traffic and the clatter of passing trains.
  — Boyce Upholt, Outside Online, 27 Mar. 2020
• The clatter of keys, the gate, and then Nadia approaching.
  — Emilio Fraia, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
• The shrill cry of the Batá drum and the low moans of the dùndún drum, from the Yoruba; the metallic clatter of the ogene bell and the silvery melody of the opi flute, from the Igbo.
  — Wired, 1 Sep. 2021
• Who had inspired this scene from which arose such a clatter?
  — Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2021
• The clatter woke the Ranger in the next dugout, who grabbed his M1 and began firing wildly in the direction of the noise.
  — Peter Cozzens, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2022
• Despite the pall, Ukrainians have found ways to preserve affairs of the heart amid the clatter of war.
  — Jeff Stein, Samantha Schmidt and Kostiantyn Khudov, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Jan. 2023
• None of this pro-Trump clatter reaches through the thick walls of the Arsht Center.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2019
• The room was buzzing with dudes grunting over the clatter of metal on metal.
  — Gray Chapman, SELF, 8 Sep. 2018
• The day was empty apart from the clatter of distant gunfire.
  — Ro Mayyu Ali, CNN, 11 Apr. 2018
• In spirit if not in distance, this is about as far as a guy can get from the bang and clatter of the film business.
  — Matthew Hennessey, WSJ, 16 June 2017
• And, unlike the clatter of balls, that sound is music to the fashion-loving ears.
  — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 17 Aug. 2023
• In the streets of the neighborhood, a firefight was picking up, and the clatter of machine guns echoed about.
  — Andrew E. Kramer Nicole Tung, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2023
• The clatter of drums and horns drowned up much of the group's proselytizing.
  — Eder Campuzano, OregonLive.com, 9 June 2018
• The sound of church bells and the clatter of feet on cobblestones, even the foreign purr of a diesel engine, calm your synapses.
  — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2017
• Dusk is a clatter of late arrivals, new tents being pitched, and attempts to sleep.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 15 Apr. 2023
• Someone heard the bird’s clatter and saw what was likely Tiki, but then lost sight of her.
  — Erika Pesantes, Sun-Sentinel.com, 12 June 2018
• The tables are a-clatter and the mood is wonderfully chill.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022
• Finally, with one big wave, the joints loosened and the boards gave way with a sodden clatter.
  — Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
• By early evening on a Monday night, the diner’s servers had changed shifts, but the clatter of plates and glasses had not paused.
  — Corina Knoll, New York Times, 11 July 2023
• There are outbursts of men shouting and the clatter of bowling pins falling.
  — Chris Serres, Star Tribune, 27 Feb. 2021
• Unfortunately, this large four-cylinder idles with the clatter of a diesel and is boomy through the top half of the tachometer.
  — Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 14 Aug. 2020
• Bitcoin usually comes up amid the clink and clatter of cutlery and plates.
  — Vildana Hajric, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2021
• The once ubiquitous sounds of exploding shells have been replaced by the clatter of camera shutters.
  — Durdana Bhat, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Dec. 2023
• White bellbirds fill the Amazonian soundscape with a clatter of strange, clanging sounds.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2023

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