clatter
verb (used without object)
to make a loud, rattling sound, as that produced by hard objects striking rapidly one against the other.
have clattered
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present perfectof clatter.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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EST 15:18 33 min: Danilo and Dzeko have clattered into each other while challenging for a high ball.
From The Guardian β Mar. 8, 2016
He was dropped twice, on 70 and 85, and survived a confident lbw appeal from the off-spinner when he tried to sweep him on 79, Hawk-Eye concluding that the ball would have clattered into leg-stump.
From The Guardian β Aug. 22, 2011
All those gauntlets have clattered at his feet since the supposed turning point of January 1990, when United faced Nottingham Forest in the third round of the FA Cup with Ferguson's job in jeopardy.
From The Guardian β Dec. 19, 2010
Ten years before the most dashing scouts would have clattered off to the front and would have required a day, perhaps more, to complete the necessary reconnaissance.
From Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot
Could walls and gates have fallen by mere will and throat power, ours of Peking would have clattered down Jericho-like.
From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900βThe Year of Great Tribulation by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale
