clatter
verb (used without object)
to make a loud, rattling sound, as that produced by hard objects striking rapidly one against the other.
clatteringly
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a word derived from
clatter.
Example Sentences
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The view was still blocked by a Venetian blind, which he hoisted clatteringly.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
To work off the pride and joy caused by this avowal, Patrick mounted the broad seat extending all around the summerhouse and began to walk clatteringly upon it.
From Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day by Benjamin A. Heydrick
The force of the stroke knocked the key clatteringly to the floor.
From Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story by Albert Payson Terhune
Minute after minute went like weary hours, and still the moon was hid, still the dead branches rattled clatteringly on the high windows.
From Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories by Ralph Adams Cram
The medicine spoon dropped rather clatteringly out of Guthrie's hand.
From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
