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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
The ballad finds Fontaines’ Grian Chatten and Rosalía trading lines over a moody acoustic strum that repeatedly swells with strings and clattering drums. — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2026 Shawn could hear his mother still clattering about in the kitchen, could smell the soapy smell of the man’s body. — Rachel Heng, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026 The big old house with its wide wooden floors, and the clattering sound that his hobnail boots made, didn’t daunt him. — Literary Hub, 21 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 Skeletor is all pixels with a clattering jaw perfect for chewing the scenery. — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clattering
Adjective
  • The focus was how AI can be integrated and optimize the existing business – rather than presentation of noisy (and controversial) slates of AI TV shows and movies.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Kerry McCoy’s guitar juices up a mid-song gallop by abruptly pivoting from big and noisy to compressed and snarling; at the climax, everything cuts out for a second to spotlight a Daniel Tracy drum fill.
    — Patrick Lyons, Pitchfork, 13 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Wilmington, California — The rattling whir of a diesel generator fills a corner of the truck yard.
    — Natasha Chen, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Diesel fuel prices have spiked in the aftermath of the Iran war, rattling voters and putting pressure on Republicans.
    — NICHOLAS INGRAM, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 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 17 Oct. 2026.

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