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clattering

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verb

present participle of clatter

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of clattering
Adjective
Meanwhile, his tactile upright stylings meet the clack of Dannie Richmond’s drums, fostering a clattering percussiveness borrowed from the blues. Daniel Felsenthal, Pitchfork, 4 Apr. 2026
Verb
Her black bag came off her shoulder and a CD holder went flying, sending bright silver discs clattering across the ground. Timothy Townsend, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026 Their best moment of the first half comes late, with a clattering tackle by Jarrad Branthwaite on Marcus Rashford. George Caulkin, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026 Added to the mix were pottery workshops and artisan weavers, the traditional hand looms clattering away. Lucy Gillmore, Travel + Leisure, 30 July 2026 All but one of these 22 songs could slot seamlessly into More Chaos’ clattering tracklist. Eli Enis, Pitchfork, 9 July 2026 Butch had been little more than a clattering irritation at the edges of Will’s life. Emily Ruskovich, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026 Below them, clattering on a dozen parallel tracks, the trains were coming and going, arriving and departing, thundering underground. Literary Hub, 3 June 2026 Skeletor is all pixels with a clattering jaw perfect for chewing the scenery. Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026 The sound of chopping and plates clattering echoes through the open room, where conversation builds into a steady hum that fills every corner. Eva Remijan-Toba, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clattering
Adjective
  • Jay Carney and Judy Keen, in the pool for Time and USA Today, respectively, were making a noisy case to fly back on Air Force One too.
    Sonya Ross For The Atlanta Journal-Contitution, AJC.com, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Look for the human touch – the mentions of noisy ice machines, broken elevators, or terrible service.
    Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • And yep, my phone was rattling like a Richter Scale when all that happened, too.
    Jayson Stark, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The song was a frenetic evolution of Brooklyn drill—the grimy, bone-rattling subgenre of hip-hop popularized by Bobby Shmurda—and its instrumental by the British producer 808Melo gave it a brash East London bounce.
    Taran Dugal, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Heck, our returning champion Carole wasn’t even in this episode other than clacking away on her keyboard.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Once, when his unit came under heavy fire, a soldier running for cover caught a glimpse of Salinger hunched under a table, clacking away like a frenzied newsman on deadline.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026

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“Clattering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clattering. Accessed 12 Sep. 2026.

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