clatter
verb (used without object)
to make a loud, rattling sound, as that produced by hard objects striking rapidly one against the other.
clattery
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a word derived from
clatter.
Example Sentences
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The chord progression and clattery percussion on “Dead Women” evoke “Lay Lady Lay,” while Mitski’s song imagines someone pawing through her things after death, trying to uncover her secrets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
Disney Hall is famed for its vivid acoustics, yet at relatively close proximity details could be still be hard to pick out in the clattery texture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
Notoriously choked with traffic, a clattery, belching, potholed sluice of despair, built for 47,000 vehicles, now used by 153,000 cars and trucks a day, the long-neglected midcentury highway is collapsing.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2019
Sharma’s life was in flux the day in April when she hopped into a clattery auto-rickshaw to head out to the property she owned.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2016
She was so gay and responsive that one did not mind her heavy, running step, or her clattery way with pans.
From My Antonia by Willa Sibert Cather
