[
UK
/klˈætɐ/
]
[ US /ˈkɫætɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɫætɝ/ ]
NOUN
-
a rattling noise (often produced by rapid movement)
the shutters clattered against the house
the clatter of iron wheels on cobblestones
VERB
-
make a rattling sound
clattering dishes
How To Use clatter In A Sentence
- Their feet clattered over the faux marble floor past the reference desk towards the closet.
- The sound of clattering pots disappeared. Times, Sunday Times
- Harshly, Nikiforov receives a booking for clattering Nakata on the edge of the area.
- Apart from some diesel clatter at low speeds, the engine fades away into the background.
- Tanya spun round, her chair falling with a clatter.
- Horses clattered through the whiteness, their backs and foreheads sporting melting ice dribbling over their dished faces.
- “there was a clatter in the country, that her husband and her were ower sibb when they married.” The Antiquary
- The song begins with pounding drums, around which metallic noises clatter. Times, Sunday Times
- Fleet went toppling over backwards, sending his armful of cannonballs clattering across the deck.
- The carriage teetered precariously as he moved to take a seat opposite her and they stared at each other in a calming silence as she drank, but once she finished, the cup fell from her loose fingers and clattered loudly on the floor.