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
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
When they landed clatteringly, he stepped quietly through the door.
From Unwise Child by Randall Garrett
Up from the floor of his pen the lamb rose clatteringly like a mechanical toy, and met the glad news with a peculiarly disdainful "B-a-a-a!"
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
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
