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.
A metal vent cover hit the floor of an alleyway with a large clatter.
The clatter of a pheasant call from the field beyond sends the stoat into hiding. Country diary: Allendale, Northumberland
If you roll over at night everything behind you clatters and rattles.
And now the engineer pulled out the throttle-valve to make up for lost time, and the clatter of the train faded into a distant roar, and its lights began to twinkle into indistinctness.
Either way, Al Jaber is the ungrateful recipient after clattering into the back of Joaquin.
In the distance, horses whinnied as a light carriage clattered across the Clairmallon forecourt. The Dressmaker
The click of a persimmon driver striking one of those soft balata balls and the sound of steel spikes clattering across the parking lot were heavenly.
The invaders looked splendid and deadly as they clattered and clopped down the plaza. Fire The Sky
Yet, even above the clatter of their hoofs did the incorrigible Nanty hollo out the old ballad — Redgauntlet
At about three in the afternoon, the mini - robot ceased its clattering.
The resident cats of the time didn't much like the hissing and spluttering and clattering the device made as it brewed a new jugful, but they came round in the end.
Upon opening the door, the clatter of trays on silverware and the clamor of voices competing with one another washed over them.
As the last words came hoarsely forth on to the night air, _clang, clang, clang_, burst out the tocsin of the alarm bell, silencing the music in the ballroom and sending an electric thrill through every listener within the precincts of the castle; but ere the great bell had sent forth a score of vibrating notes which came quivering through the darkness and echoing from every wall, the clattering of hoofs began in obedience to the whispered commands of his Majesty of France: The King's Esquires The Jewel of France
Or I might be on the shady sidewalk with my contemporaries when an ice wagon clattered up.
They clattered through the streets of Castellammare, pursued by urchins, crying, "Un sordo, signori! The Emancipated
And she'd walked off, her rosary beads clattering together all the way down the corridor. IN REAL LIFE
People are chattering and laughing; dice are being thrown; there is the constant clattering of mah-jong tiles.
The clatter was a relief to Carol after months of smug houses. Main Street
In the stillness of this beautiful place, it takes little to imagine the hiss of steam and the clattering of motion once more. Times, Sunday Times
The distant clatter of a milk van revives a long-lost, though momentary, reverie.
There was a grunt from the other room, then a clatter of glass striking uncovered floor.
It's like being at the Seneca Niagara Casino and hearing the coins clatter into the tray of a slot machine. The Buffalo News: Home
A gloved hand slammed merrily on a wooden table, shaking the contents on it and clattering a box of various tools to the floor.
The dockhand howled in pain as the short sword clattered to the floor. Curse of the Shadowmage
The distant clatter of a milk van revives a long-lost, though momentary, reverie.
Maithris also looked around in alarm at the clattering of armor and equipage and her ears went back at the sight of a squad of armed infantry making a beeline for us.
There is a distant but unmistakable clattering sound that is incongruous to the refined air of the robust cabin. Times, Sunday Times
A poorly cleared ball fell just outside the box where the waiting Hasney Aljofree simply clattered it on the drop and it winged home.
Michael Ball clatters Alexander Hleb for the second or third time - he'd want to be careful or he'll get booked.
She struck Blue suddenly with her rein-ends and went clattering up the trail where the snow lay in shaded, crusty patches rimmed with dirt. The Ranch at the Wolverine
The winged crocodile was kicked into the closet, after it were hurled the thunder machine and the lightning torch, and after them clattered the cups and the silver rundlet. The Dragon of Wantley His Tale
Climbing on the roof, Gawain suddenly heard a violent noise, clattering off the cliff like a grindstone on a scythe.
From somewhere distant he heard the clatter of a typewriter.
He grudged every moment of life sleep robbed him of, and before the clock had ceased its clattering he was head and ears in the washbasin and thrilling to the cold bite of the water. Chapter 16
Dain let his sword clatter to the floor and ran to Moira. A Change of Seasons
There had been no warning of his coming — a clatter of hoofs at midnight, a lathered horse in the stable, and Tom had appeared, the salt of the sea on his face as his mother attested. BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
The rhythmic whisking of brooms would erupt into a cataclysmic clatter of samurai handle-pounding that would have you adrenalized and moving to the heavy beat. Some new shtick in 'Stomp'
Those urging caution note the failure of the euro to go above $1.30, despite ongoing market clatter about dollar weakness.
Machinegun fire and explosions boomed out and helicopters clattered overhead as naked children ran for safety, screaming.
Warwickshire closed on 70 for 3, and unless there is a clatter of wickets or a generous declaration by Nick Knight this match is drifting to a draw.
An occasional tonga clattered by, the driver and his passenger perched atop the two-wheeled wooden cart pulled by a donkey daring enough to brave the traffic. Beneath My Mother’s Feet
No way but suicide king and down the alley roared the car clitter clattering up the motorways and through towards evermore. Final Resting Place of The Pen
At the nearby Desert Diner, dishes clatter as busboys set tables for the lunch crowd and crank the fireplace to a high blaze.
Ilderim and I and the remaining three waited until nightfall, and then set off on foot to the thicket where we were to rendezvous; there were the first six horses and a sowar waiting, and round about midnight Shadman and his companions came clattering out of the dark to join us, crowing with laughter. Fiancée
Poor old Victor gets clattered again, this time by an accidental elbow from Nuno Valente.
Another hour later, the screen door banged open with a small clatter.
That clatter you hear is scales tumbling from eyes across the nation. Times, Sunday Times
They began slowly at first, seeking to halt the clatter of wickets. The Sun
I might have him, he thought, and his mind tossed him the image of piles of silver coins clattering out of the belly of a one-armed bandit. Memory of Fire
I clattered and tapped endlessly in my hornpipe shoes on the red-tile floor in the kitchen, and anywhere there was a wood or flag floor.
Then suddenly the brute I was flying through the air, his sword clattering at Rig's feet. The Day of the Tempest
My extra coins clattered on the surface where they sat. I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone
The maid clattered the pots and pans in the sink.
Several times a day she would clatter downstairs to the kitchen with a Thermos that she would fill with her favourite hooch - a mixture of hot tea and sherry.
His laser pistol clattered from its holster.
The clatter of cutlery and banter filled the hall.
Then later in that dark street, you stepped left as I stepped right, we stood for a moment and looked at each other, then we kissed - a first kiss - like electricity grounding out from your lips to my lips all the way through me, to my toes, a rush of warm chaos - everything stopped as it does for lovers - everything stopped and the world revolved around you and I and that wonderful kiss the drunken clatter of fellow athletes hooting, hollering in at least 6 languages Admit-it Diary Entry
There was a fizzle, and then a pop, and finally a clattering ring.
He clattered into Addo, conceding a free 25 yards out.
I dropped the pole and it clattered to the pier with a hollow thunk.
An as he skellied intae the white bleeze, a troop o droid surveillance puggies advanced in heelstergowdie formation alang the corridor roof, skited by owre his heid an wi a clatter o mettalic cleuks, skittered awa eastwards doon the shadowy vennel. Archive 2004-09-01
He heard a man's voice humming over the clatter of the engine. THE SERPENT'S MARK
the shutters clattered against the house
Then, half way through the scene there was a loud clatter. Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
When the dyre clatterynge of the shielde and launce The Rowley Poems
The carriage shuddered and began to roll forward, clattering over the cobblestones.
He jumps, surprised, and the loud clatter of silverware resonates from our corner of the reception hall.
Also the great flob was there, who came clattering and clanking up from the bottom of the basin, with his hard shells and heavy claws, as if he was the greatest fish alive. Ting-a-ling
Cyric's sword clattered to the stone floor beside him and Dain brought his own sword straight down into his chest without fanfare, without preamble. A Change of Seasons
I backtrack a couple dozen feet on the street until I'm standing next to a lady who's trying to dig her car out of a snowbank, and we're both eyeing this thing warily as it continues to clatter and belch fire and smoke.
Without another word she left the room, clattering her heavy shoes at the door; and Mordacks foresaw a sad encounter on the morrow, without a good breakfast to "fettle" him for it. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale
The referee played on but Crooks instantly clattered Connell to give Cummings a dead-ball chance from 25 yards which he wasted.
As he heard the clatter of hoofs behind him he looked around and saw a dozen red-skins coming in pursuit, and felt confident that he must have dashed by an ambush they were preparing for him, by suddenly changing his course and riding _around_ instead of _through_ a canyon. Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood
Later, of course, the email chain clattered about whether the expense would affect the thrice-yearly profit-sharing bonus.
Talisso laughed his fierce and orgulous laugh as he rode at their head and they all hurled through the gates, and, clattering up the empty street, carried the castle out of hand? A Child's Book of Saints
So leathery and stiff are its heart-shaped leaves that they clatter in the wind. Times, Sunday Times
Steel clattered, cries soared through the cerulean skies, rage unleashed, war came upon the raging countries.
Upon opening the door, the clatter of trays on silverware and the clamor of voices competing with one another washed over them.
Then, when the motor clattered into action, it belched a sooty puff from the exhaust pipe, terrified nearby cats and deafened all around as you drove away.
The male and female greet each other at the nest by making a loud clattering with their beaks. Times, Sunday Times
And, of course, I got to remembering Monday wash days at home, clouds of steam billowing, the washboard clattering and the mangle creaking, lines of gleaming white washing hanging out to dry.
Then, half way through the scene there was a loud clatter. Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
Jade's bracelets began to clatter against each other and the runes began to glow alternate colours; red and gold.
With pulses atune to the morning's freshness, the girl galloped rapidly along the shell-road, the clattering thud of her horse's hoofs startling in the quiet. Diane of the Green Van
The sound of clattering pots disappeared. Times, Sunday Times
When lorries were not clattering by, buses were revving their engines. Times, Sunday Times
The tray slipped and clattered to the floor.
Radio traffic clattered from the cop’s walkie-talkie. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
a clattery typewriter
Inside there was a squeak and the sound of something clattering, then the door swung open to slam against the bathroom wall.
The poor consul got a lamp for us with a bit of wax-candle, such as I wonder his means could afford; the shabby janissary marched ahead with his tin mace; the two laquais-de-place, that two of our company had hired, stepped forward, each with an old sabre, and we went clattering and stumbling down the streets of the town, in order to seize upon this cadi in his own divan. Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
Obedient, with fire in his eyes, Wolf unbuckled his belt and let his weapons clatter to the ground.
Others are tougher and heavier and designed to be pounded as you clatter down a rocky hillside. Times, Sunday Times
There was the distant clattering of wheels and squeaking of axles.
I could hear dishes clattering faintly in the distance.
I like the word "ciphering," because it makes me think of slates -- slates that were always falling on the floor with a rousing clatter, so that almost always at least one corner was cracked. Back Home
Indeed, Rob and I could just hear a kind of roopy clattering like that of a hungry hen complaining to the vague Powers which rule the times and seasons of distribution from the "daich" bowl. The Dew of Their Youth
Lizarazu gets booked for clattering Chris Sutton over on the right touchline.
Sal stays awake all night, witnessing the sunrise and hearing the clatter of horse hooves.
Gloria was just walking out of her office when she heard my heels clattering on the terrazzo tiles and turned sharply round. DEAD BEAT
Like one of Henry Fielding's squirearchs, Noel planted his library not in some clattering urban center, but in his serene country seat.
While Reid clattered around broadcasting studios explaining why sections of the security services were out to get his government, a number of senior figures within Downing Street were wincing.
She liked to admire his uniform, and to hear his sword clatter as he walked. The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance
If there is a group of them working together, one can hear the pebbles clattering. Times, Sunday Times
The stairwell was a windowless concrete chimney stretching endlessly above us and echoing with the clatter of pounding feet. Crashed
He remembered the sound produced by balls clattering off toys.
Ferdinand's intentions are not an issue, any more than intention is an issue when you clatter someone in the penalty area.
Muttering a stream of obscenities, she threw the pan into the sink with a loud clatter.
With a wild verberation, a scream of sundered metal and a clatter of flying fragments, the staple gave way. Darkness and Dawn
He heard feet clattering and laughter and a shout from someone who was not amused.
The tech who comes at 3: 00 a.m. to take my vitals throws open the door with a clatter, puts on the brightest light, and sings to herself loudly (and offkey) the whole time she is nearby. Archive 2009-10-01
Yet at virtually no time, amid the clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junk that rattles through "Dark of the Moon," is there the sense that such a gap has been spanned. 'Crowne': A Bad Fit for Hollywood Royalty
I was dozing off when a young couple came clattering up the aisle, they couldn't have been more than 14.
As I walked across the fields I could hear sounds of dishes clattering and chatter could be heard inside the palace walls.
A pencil dropped, clattering to the floor in the silent room and I woke up suddenly.
Groups of hikers are gathering, nailed boots are clattering on the concrete, and there is a general air of anticipation.
Then he jumps behind his kit and clatters away in ecstasy.
Sidroc opened his mouth and the knife dropped with a clatter to the stone floor.
A thrust and twist through its chest, and it fell limp, the daggers clattering as they dropped from its hands.
The scene was slightly underlit, and while I could hear all sorts of human activity - talking, phones ringing, keyboards clattering - I couldn't see another living person.
We started to go through the kitchen, to the back door, but we heard clattering and muttering.
And the next morning it opened with a mighty clatter, and was a dirty little beerhouse that stank of beer, and there was a fat and grimy landlord with red spots upon his neck, and much noisy traffic going by on the cobbles outside. In the Days of the Comet
The Offspring clatter to a tuneful halt; the singer gives the room a disgusted look, unstraps his guitar and walks off.
Outside, the rain turned to pellets of hail, clattering against the house.
Shock and disbelief sent ratchet and hairdryer alike clattering to the forest floor.
We heard voices outside and then a sound of clattering footsteps and the men were back in the room. Times, Sunday Times
He had let her come up into the wind too far and the storm trysail luffed, canvas drumming, the bronze sail slides clattering. CORMORANT
The front right wheel clattered through a deep pothole filled with dark rain water which splashed up, showering the front of the van.
Something clattered on the tile floor, behind a frothing bed of shrubs.
After another fine effort from him was saved in 79 minutes, he was red carded for clattering into the striker - his second bookable offence.
Tomorrow the banging and clattering overhead will resume as the last of the slate tiles are laid, followed by the ridge tiles.
The clatter of wickets has become too familiar. Times, Sunday Times
S'long -- Mr. Barton!" she called listlessly over the other, and started on, stumblingly, clatteringly, up the abruptly steep and precipitous mountain trail -- a little dust-colored gnome on a dust-colored horse, with the dutiful gray pinking cautiously along behind her. Little Eve Edgarton
Wooden clubs meet and bamboo poles clatter as with split second accuracy, the exponents display their skill in the centuries old martial art form.
The poor consul got a lamp for us with a bit of wax-candle, such as I wonder his means could afford; the shabby janissary marched ahead with his tin mace; the two laquais-de-place, that two of our company had hired, stepped forward, each with an old sabre, and we went clattering and stumbling down the streets of the town, in order to seize upon this cadi in his own divan. Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
He waved his hand slightly and the clock fell apart, its pieces clattering to the floor, adding sound to the once silent room.
You could say that the only sound was the cling and clatter of eating utensils hitting the porcelain plates.
The donko was silent, a silence punctuated by the slap of cards, the scrape of matches and the clatter of enamel mugs.
Sir Andros easily unhorsed his challenger, and the young Kerric landed flat on his back with a loud crash, steel plates clattering about his body, helmet rolling away.
It is a clattering great dragon out of the sky, which engorges the horsed knight, pipe, coffee pot, and all. Monstre Désacré
People are chattering and laughing; dice are being thrown; there is the constant clattering of mah-jong tiles.
While some may chose to spend that season lazing beside rivers and quaffing champagne, the more discerning amongst us elect for the greensward and the thrill of clattering wickets.
Don't clatter the dishes - you'll wake the baby up.
You would think when a bowl hits a tree the sound would be fierce, a loud clatter as stoneware explodes on birch bark dispersing shards in daffodils and grape muscari, but the noise is gentle, a thudding clink like empty bourbon bottles rattling hollow in Monday morning trash; yet this contusion of wood upon ceramic, When a Bowl Hits a Tree
For God's sake, his teeth are still clattering and he's got gooseflesh up and down his arms!
The clatter has been expelled and our standards of audience attention are almost puritanical. Times, Sunday Times
The clatter of wickets was not because of any dramatic change in the conditions. Times, Sunday Times
They began adding premiums to their official prices, with new monthly terms clattering out from telexes around the world. The Prize
He dropped the knife and it clattered on the stone floor.
So leathery and stiff are its heart-shaped leaves that they clatter in the wind. Times, Sunday Times
She was a little surprised that the man didn't say anything; only the clatter of the rabbits in the hutch could be heard.
Today the studio is filled with the clatter of sewing machines and the voices of dozens of tailors and Masai beaders busily working on brightly colored leathers and suedes. Style Out of Africa
The knight's sword clattered from his hand, and the mariner scrambled to pick it up. The Day of the Tempest
There was a clattering and tumbling as everything spilled out on to the floor.
During the night a metal dish was heard to clatter down the stone stairs.
From the free-kick, Jenas breaks and lays it into the box for Bellamy, who clatters into DeBoer and falls over.
Traveling over great distances, caravans of men, women, and children, amid crowds of dogs, herds of horses, and the clatter of travois, crossed the high, windswept passes punctuating the Continental Divide.
Explore it from the bottom of the bill and you'll encounter something different: tracts of featureless industrial estates, a world in which Wolseley police cars clatter under railway bridges in Croydon and mid-price actors occupy frowsty suburban drags. Archive 2008-03-01
The Drujani jerked hard on the haft of his weapon and Joscelin was disarmed, the sword clattering onto the floor. Kushiel's Avatar
The signore is welcome," replied the old woman as she clattered into the narrow, cheaply furnished little sitting-room, which was in half darkness owing to the _persiennes_ being closed. Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo
By the 1960s, using the New York subway meant navigating what a John Lindsay-era task force called "the most squalid public environment of the United States: dank, dingily lit, fetid, raucous with screeching clatter, one of the world's meanest transit facilities. When in Helvetica
I jumped when a lunch tray clattered onto the table I was sitting at.
She listened to hear what she might, but the only sound was the steady clatter heard earlier.
And then, save for the clatter of the "sounder," there was silence. Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes
Wyatt hoisted himself up into the truck and began to push and shove the rest of the load on to the clattering pile.
the clatter of iron wheels on cobblestones
She was thinking about going back home when she heard hooves clatter on the bridge.
Overhead we hear drones, and from our left the occasional clatter of the Apache choppers, but there is no gunfire in the streets, no armed fighters in sight.
Her heels clattering on the wet paving stones, she crossed the short distance to the temple, then entered the chedi. The Hunger
It was produced by scary, hairy, lairy Martin Hannett and as a whole the songs drunkenly fall and clatter with wild abandon.
The metal of the gun hit the floor with a clatter; the sound rang out in the silence.
Next to the van beneath the awning was a mass of machinery, man-high wheels and pulleys and a clattering steam engine, and Cicero saw that it was drawing in the upper pair of cables, and paying out the lower. Asimov's Science Fiction
But I hae heard say, gudewife," continued Ochiltree, "there was a clatter in the country, that her husband and her were ower sibb when they married. The Antiquary — Volume 02
AS I write this, beneath my window, with a great clattering of hoofs on the asphalt, is passing a long column of mountain batteries, all carried on the backs of our big Government mules. Mexico's Army and Ours
She happily picks up his dry cleaning, disposes of several thousand polystyrene coffee cups polluting his car, and at the end of the working day - instead of clattering off home in a stinking temper - hops into bed with him.
He slowly lowered it, released the clip and let the gun clatter to the floor.
Edmund stands in front of his grandmother, and with a bloodcurdling yell he begins to clatter her with his drumsticks. LOVE YOU MADLY
In the stillness of this beautiful place, it takes little to imagine the hiss of steam and the clattering of motion once more. Times, Sunday Times
It slid across the floor and clattered to a stop, and then a mechanical arm unfolded, slapping a hyperfiber bowl over it, and then covering the bowl an explosive charge set to obliterate the first hand that tried to free the gun within. The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection
There is normally a constant roar of jets and the clatter of helicopters - but this time it was ghostly quiet. Times, Sunday Times
Both spoons clattered down onto the plates causing milk to splash everywhere.
The dagger spun away in a glitter of moonlight on metal to clatter on riverbed rock.
Another important part of weaving the past into my story was walking the streets of Brooklyn Heights, especially on a snowy night when it's easier to imagine carriages clattering down the streets and gaslight flickering behind the windows of the brownstones. Patricia O'Brien discusses her novel Harriet & Isabella, about the trial of Henry Ward Beecher, brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
The cart clattered over the cobble - stones.
Pots clattered; hatchlings cheeped with single-minded fury. Snarkometer #24
There was a clatter of wickets in the afternoon. The Sun
Sixty years ago these streets were full of the tumult and clatter of life.
Two seconds later, a loud noise sounded as the chicken bone clattered off of the stone wall and onto the floor.
She loved the sound of dice and slot machines, the clatter of mathematics.
His heart pounded in panic as he heard the clash of his sword clattering loose on the stone floor. Emperor of Ansalon

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