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

Ficarra and Requa have ambitions; their scenaristic cleverness pervades the movie from beginning to end, with their bright and clattery dialogue and their exotic plotting.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 2, 2015

There was an incoherent medley of song fragments from “Pippin,” “Hair”and “Jesus Christ Superstar,” during which his backup trio, conducted by David Loeb, sounded clattery.

From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2012

And run and run and run down clattery streets and through black woods and across green pastures snorting fire—till you met more Soldiers and more Bands and more Gold and Silver Music!

From Fairy Prince and Other Stories by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell