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• Twelve laps later, Leclerc locked up at the first chicane and clattered over the run-off area.2019 September 8, Andrew Benson, BBC Sport. From the entry lock up
• The lock somehow managed to miss everyone below and clattered against the pavement.2014, Kenneth Calhoun, chapter 15, in Black Moon: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Hogarth, →ISBN, page 240. From the entry fastball
• Suddenly all the birds in the tide water flew up at once in a clatter of wings.2013, Ian McDonald, chapter 62, in Chaga, →ISBN. From the entry fight one's corner
• Hurrying, now, a family in frantic flight: after them the clattering of jackbooted feet.2006, Shira Nayman, “Dark Urgings of the Blood”, in Awake in the Dark: Stories, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 233. From the entry jackbooted
• Remember typewriters, those clattering, monitorless contraptions that were all the rage not so very long ago?2006, Deke McClelland, Adobe InDesign CS2 one-on-one. From the entry monitorless
• Edward was awakened that night by a loud clattering noise which left an after-sound of high ringing.1985, Iris Murdoch, The Good Apprentice, Penguin, published 2001, Part 2, p. 189. From the entry aftersound
• Lawn furniture is scattered about, duffle bags arrive, the clatter of pots and pans.1982 February 13, Lee Swislow, “Amazon Trekking”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 9. From the entry sleep
• The stones clattered on the coffin; the mud remained in his hand.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter X, in Capricornia, page 167. From the entry mullock
• Partridges, enjoying their last weeks of security, rose whirring and clattering from among the ling.1931, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Five Red Herrings. From the entry ling
• In fact many times we can hear the clatter of the thesaurus Rogeting to the rescue.1931, Joseph Daly, Mencken and Einstein look at religion, page 6. From the entry Roget
• Doors opened, food prep clattered, and the crowd rhubarbed as everyone hurried in to get their money's worth.2015 September, Gordon Edgar, “Mac and Cheese, Class War, and the Many Meanings of Cheddar”, in Cheddar: A Journey to the Heart of…. From the entry rhubarb
• Galvanised, I jumped--the clatter of keys rang clear as I thrust the knife, handle down, into the back of my briefs.2012, Joe Tog, Aussie Prison Breaks: Not All Escapees Are Desperados. From the entry briefs
• But halfway through, this stateliness devolves into the kind of marchy clatter that Wagner’s Italian counterparts were writing.2009 February 27, Allan Kozinn, “A Viennese Meal Served With the Dessert First”, in New York Times. From the entry marchy
• They came clattering down like breakfast cereal.2009, Lee Ann Roripaugh, On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year, page 23. From the entry branchful
• He flew through the moonlight streets, clattering over cobbles, darting down narrow alleys and up twisty wynds, racing to his love.1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 637. From the entry wynd
• If e'er there was sic strife and clatter, Fracas o tongues and bellerin blatter, Twas at the towr o Babel.1996, David McCordick, Scottish literature: an anthology, page 572. From the entry yabble
• The clatter from the kitchen was comforting.1990, Rosamunde Pilcher, September, Thorndike, Me.: Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 412. From the entry washing-machine
• Now she could hear a man clatter over the cobbles and the jing-jang of the pails he carried.1918 September 7, [Katherine Mansfield], “Short Studies”, in The Nation, volume XXIII, number 23, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 596. From the entry jing-jang
• As a first warning the boiling liquid lifts the cover and washes over it with a noisy swash and clatter.1906, Good Housekeeping - Volume 42, page 352. From the entry swash
• I was buying some crisps and pop when there was a noisy clatter on the bare floorboards and something hit my right heel.2009, Sid Waddell, “Satan’s Citadel”, in The Road Back Home: The Bittersweet Memoirs of a Geordie Coal Miner’s Son, London: Ebury Press…. From the entry crisp
• The immediate effect, however, was that all the ingenious calculations of the Wilhelmstrasse came clattering to the ground like a house of cards.1911, The Fortnightly Review, volume 96, page 638. From the entry Wilhelmstrasse
• He walked to the edge and they heard his hoarse guffaw of laughter as the arrows clanged and clattered against his impenetrable mail.1905–1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter XX, in Sir Nigel, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], published January 1906, →OCLC. From the entry guffaw
• It runs on clattering steel tracks; the driver sits in a cab over the tracks, operating the controls that rotate the arm and turn the winch.2013, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 27, in The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, page 267. From the entry winch
• Available as a free download via Neon Gold, her debut single Youth is a monster mix of keening vocals, slow-burn electronics and, by the song's end, big clattering drums.2011 November 21, Michael Cragg, “New music: Foxes - Home”, in the Guardian. From the entry clattering
• The hundreds of embroiderers and stitchers hunched over clattering sewing machines at the New Era Cap factory could be forgiven for thinking these are good times.2009 August 27, Ken Belson, “Adjusting Caps to Fit the Times”, in New York Times. From the entry stitcher
• Whenever Root would put his elbows on the table or clatter his dishes or commit any other breach of etiquette, the Professor would gently correct him.2003, Yoko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor. From the entry etiquette
• From somewhere through the series of connecting rooms she smelled food, the stabbing odor of onions cooking, a distantly familiar spice, heard the clatter of women kitchening.1979, Barbara Ninde Byfield, A parcel of their fortunes, →ISBN, page 21. From the entry kitchen
• You know the sort of stuff I mean — the shots of blinking instrument panels, of wildly bleeping computers, of cryptic messages clattering in square type-faces across television screens.1979 May 25, Vincent Canby, “Screen: ‘Alien’ Brings Chills From the Far Galaxy”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry type-face
• Maugham suggests that storytelling began when primeval hunters told tales around their fires and turbaned raconteurs held forth in what Sinclair Lewis called the clattering bright bazaars.1963 October 5, Charles Poore, “Books of The Times: The Curtain Speeches of Somerset Maugham”, in New York Times, page 18. From the entry undoubtably
• I groped around a bit to find the bell-push, and let them have a full five seconds clatter, just to show what I was thinking of them.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 8. From the entry bellpush
• The hamsandwich men and pig-trotter women will give you notice when the time is come, for with the first clatter of the descending footsteps they commence their cries.1949, [Henry] Mayhew's London: being selections from 'London labour and the London poor' (which was first published in 1851), page 48. From the entry hamsandwich
• The low sun had set aflame the numerous windows of a large building which turned slowly, demonstrating one huge chimney, then another, as the train clattered by.1938–1939 (date written; published 1941), Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 13, in The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (Penguin Book; 2199)…. From the entry aflame

Meaning of clatter

1. verb To make a rattling sound.
2. verb To chatter noisily or rapidly.
3. verb To hit; to smack.

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How do you use clatter in a sentence?

Clatter is used as a verb and noun. For example: “What of my impetus and the stunning surprise, I clattered three or four steps along the deck before I could stop myself.”

What is a short sentence with clatter?

“The clatter from the kitchen was comforting.”

What does clatter mean?

Clatter means to make a rattling sound.