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Sentence Examples The horses' hoofs would begin to clatter over the boards of a covered bridge spanning Talladega Creek. The incendiaries rained down with a terrific clatter as they ricocheted off roof-tops and buildings, spitting fire as they came to rest. He slowly lowered it, released the clip and let the gun clatter to the floor. There was a sharp clatter when Mrs. Jones banged the pan with her spatula as she whipped around to face them. Ferdinand's intentions are not an issue, any more than intention is an issue when you clatter someone in the penalty area. Combined with Auzet's clitter clatter, the effect is reminiscent of an imagined rain forest tribal dance. Dropping her spoon with a clatter, Hope reached across the table to take the piece of paper from her sister. He collided with a shelf holding computer parts and knocked some to the floor with a clatter. Her body jerked and convulsed in pain and she fell backwards, dropping her sword with a clatter. He doesn't notice his peers' fearful presentiments, or the sharp clatter of something falling onto the floor, shattering the silence. Sir Ambrose rose up in considerable dismay at a clatter above his head which half blinded him with pulvilio and scattered feathers. Dropping the chair with a clatter, Joel made for the door, his vision dizzying him. The clatter of hammers, drills and sanders drown out the voices of the workers. The air was filled with the noise and clatter of servants and maids from every quarter. Sidroc opened his mouth and the knife dropped with a clatter to the stone floor. Suddenly he could hear his heartbeat drumming in his ears, muffling out the rest of the surrounding clatter. In the radio room, the Russian operator monitors the clatter of incoming telexes, faxes, weather forecasts and ice reports. There was a tug, a clatter as the leash handle hit the floor, and the rapid scrabble of claws on tile. There's the piercing screech of cats fighting and the clatter of bins somewhere in the blackness. Muttering a stream of obscenities, she threw the pan into the sink with a loud clatter. Show More Sentences At the nearby Desert Diner, dishes clatter as busboys set tables for the lunch crowd and crank the fireplace to a high blaze. Then, about 30 minutes later, I hit a bump and heard a loud clatter that sounded suspiciously like a cell phone hitting the ground. The last noodles disappear with a slurp and the spoon is left to clatter to the table. The distant clatter of a milk van revives a long-lost, though momentary, reverie. He was frightened by her hard tug and the weight of his armor made him clatter to the floor. The dagger spun away in a glitter of moonlight on metal to clatter on riverbed rock. Obedient, with fire in his eyes, Wolf unbuckled his belt and let his weapons clatter to the ground. The noise in the kitchen was almost deafening, filled with the shouts of cooks, the clatter of pans, the hissing sizzle of some food deep-frying. There was a grunt from the other room, then a clatter of glass striking uncovered floor. Plans are finalised, paint cans and brushes lined up, and the cheerful clatter of harmless domestic activities continues. Without saying anything I walked over and unslung my rifle, dropping it with a clatter on the desk in front of her. But bursts of operatic arias, incessant chatter and the clatter of pots and pans give it a curiously relaxing bustle. She listened to hear what she might, but the only sound was the steady clatter heard earlier. Suddenly, Asedrisean heard a sword clatter to the earth and felt it land broadside on his chest. The butter knife slipped from her hand to the table with a piercing clatter. Not to mention all those glorious noises, the clang and clatter, the rhythmic ring of the carriage return. As he neared the end he heard a frightful clatter in the cabinet with each tug on the hemp line. I particularly like the clatter of wind through bamboo she evokes in the fifth haiku. As she turned to walk away from the window her hip caught the edge of the side table, causing the brass vase to clatter to the ground. Sal stays awake all night, witnessing the sunrise and hearing the clatter of horse hooves. Show More Sentences The man's arm froze midair and his sword fell to the floor in a clatter of metal on stone. She was thinking about going back home when she heard hooves clatter on the bridge. The carriage slowed to a halt as Kaylen heard the clatter of hooves on cobblestone. Barnes's journalistic reputation is founded on his relaxed, anecdotal style, which is never entirely devoid of swank, clatter and show-off puns. Upon opening the door, the clatter of trays on silverware and the clamor of voices competing with one another washed over them. It was almost silent in there, other than the occasional shrill outburst of a young child, or the clatter of a fork falling to the ground. The performance was punctuated throughout with the clatter of seats as half the audience walked out. He shivers slightly, his teeth giving a faint clatter, and he winds his arms together over his chest. You could say that the only sound was the cling and clatter of eating utensils hitting the porcelain plates. Emily woke up and flinched when she heard the loud clatter from the kitchen. In the distance now they could hear the sounds of many more men shouting, a ragged chorus that rose over the clatter of steel against steel. There was a clatter of footsteps in the corridor, the thud of boots on the stairs. The sound of silence was gently broken by the distant clatter of horse hooves. Its attempts at reducing diesel clatter and eliminating turbo lag have been extremely effective. He jumps, surprised, and the loud clatter of silverware resonates from our corner of the reception hall. There was a sudden clatter and I turned to stare at the couple in surprise. The clatter of cutlery or the sound of high-pitched voices can be positively painful. Apart from some diesel clatter at low speeds, the engine fades away into the background. It was produced by scary, hairy, lairy Martin Hannett and as a whole the songs drunkenly fall and clatter with wild abandon. I heard the footsteps clatter down the stairs and I slid down the next railing. Show More Sentences The cotton mills of Bolton no longer clatter with the sound of looms, but they provided the town with a worldwide heritage. Warwickshire closed on 70 for 3, and unless there is a clatter of wickets or a generous declaration by Nick Knight this match is drifting to a draw. But timing is always unpredictable, and all the clatter around the film could have swallowed up I Am Abraham. Nightmares flowed like fever, syncopated by the twitch of a neon light outside and the rhythmic clatter of the air-con, punctuated by the shriek of car horns. All he could hear was his own breathing and the clatter of his shoes on the rough plank floors as he ran around the tower, shuttering the windows. Whatever the reason, we went out like lights the moment our heads touched our pillows and woke only when we heard the clatter of coffee cups outside our room. Sixty years ago these streets were full of the tumult and clatter of life. She was snapped harshly back to reality by the clatter of overturned toys. Over the pop of champagne, the clink of glasses raised in cheer, the clatter of china in the kitchen, one can almost hear conversation and laughter throughout these pages. In the narrow corridor, their ears picked up the clatter of footsteps. He threw his knife to the floor with a sharp clatter of metal on stone. He wanted to live with the clatter of dishes when entertaining. He reached the table and took a seat, hearing dishes clatter a bit. The horse's hooves clatter along the white, nicely layed rocks. He let the gun clatter to the floor, stepping back while shaking his head. The clatter of breakfast dishes competes with the din of the churning coffee grinder for Most Annoying Background Sound award for those seated in the booths near the counter. Overhead we hear drones, and from our left the occasional clatter of the Apache choppers, but there is no gunfire in the streets, no armed fighters in sight. A metal vent cover hit the floor of an alleyway with a large clatter. I could hear the milk-maids' buckets clatter, the cows lowing in the dell, and the indentured servant boy's tortured cries as he was being flogged. Spoons clatter, wooden benches scrape against the stone floor. Show More Sentences Another hour later, the screen door banged open with a small clatter. Wooden clubs meet and bamboo poles clatter as with split second accuracy, the exponents display their skill in the centuries old martial art form. In fact many times we can hear the clatter of the thesaurus Rogeting to the rescue. Contrast the mysteriousness of their satin and soft leather with peasanty clatter that the other Veronese make on the stage. But it looks so good you don't really care about the clatter unless you're an avid nitpicker, like our dear photographer. Wiv been hearin aahl this clatter aboot not caahlin wimmin sweetheart, love, darlin, or pet. These stacks are vulnerable to frost action and often collapse leaving trails of blocks down the slopes called clitter or clatter. There was a final flurry of fingers across fretboards, a smash and clatter of metallic percussion and a fierce, raucous harmonica. The public spaces in Rome resounded with such a din of hooves and clatter of iron chariot wheels that Julius Caesar had once proposed a ban on chariot traffic during the day. 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. 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. First, though, the clatter of Somerset wickets started when Coughlin threw himself left in his followthrough to catch a drive Trego had not kept down. Examples from Classical Literature She reveled in the white tiles, the white gloss paint, the eternal clearing-up and the clatter of flatware. But in the midst of it a clatter was heard, and five or six strapping fellows filed in with loud thumpings of their brogans. On a nearer view it is more like a Tower-of-Babel concern, with its click and clatter. Then I saw some cabmen and others had walked boldly into the sand pits, and heard the clatter of hoofs and the gride of wheels. This place resounded with cries, songs, and the clatter of plates and dishes. Then for some time could be heard a great bustle and clatter in the shed out yonder. An instant later there was a mad tugging at the front door bell, and an insaner clatter at the knocker. Not so far as we had been before, but far enough to be out of the whirl and clatter and jangle. That, combined with all the shouting and clatter of trollies, etc., rather racking in the small hours. The musicians walked first, making a deafening clatter of kettledrums in time with the heavy tread of the soldiers. There then the noise and clatter of the vanward rose up on the face of the heath, and men were exceeding joyous that they had come so far without mishap. A clatter and a swoosh, and a cylinder arced gracefully, catching me almost by surprise. The bearer of all this tintinnabular clatter is chosen from its superior docility and knack in picking out a way. Bob came over, and letting his tools down with a clatter he hitched up the knees of his moleskins and sat down on one heel. He heard the clatter of concrete mixers, the raucous grind of the crusher, the scream of donkey engines and the shouts of foremen. A vast and enthusiastic audience thronged, with joyous clatter, through narrow rues Mazarine and Dauphine, coming from the river. The clatter of the train trucks had dimmed, but a whistle up ahead was blaring an alarm. Then jog, jog, they went along Griffith Street down the curlycue road, the horse's feet going clatter on the cobblestones. He threw the helmet with a clatter on to the table as if it had been the knave's canting head. The clatter and commotion echoed to the hurry and discordance of the fugitive's ideas. Show More Sentences This clatter excepted and a few magnificent pairs of velvet breeches, the festival was the same as that at aas. The sound of a guitar strumming softly in the distance mingled with the clatter of chinaware and the babble of voices. He entered in the clatter of the shop bell with an air of sombre and vexed exhaustion. With them he fences heroically and causes a sufficiency of clatter and noise. But he heard, leaving the village along the trail to mayaguez, the sudden clatter of a pony's hoofs. From outside came a clatter of hoofs on the cobbled roadway. Then came a rush of catlike footfalls and a clatter of hoofs. The quick clack, clack, clatter when springing up in fear of capture. The clatter of crockery did not cease in the adjoining room. There was a clatter and rattle of speeding hoofs, which rapidly died out. The clatter of hoofs was growing louder with each passing second. And let me tell you that the spoons in the plates made a clatter. The sheep and lambs are bleating in the fields away behind me, and there is a clatter of donkeys' hoofs up the paved road below. This last act Hepzibah now performed, letting the bar fall with what smote upon her excited nerves as a most astounding clatter. In the semidarkness he upset a chair with appalling clatter. But this earsplitting clatter was like nothing he had ever heard before. Through the rumble of omnibuses, and the clatter of street-cabs, he could hear the droning voice devouring each minute that was left to him. She went up in the mornings to Madame Lebrun's room, braving the clatter of the old sewing-machine. The clatter of sleety rain against the windows made him restless. The creature thrashed up, wore round with a clatter and rattle, and lay head to wind within ear-shot. Show More Sentences Away he went, and Tom looked, till the clatter of his horse's heels died away, the last sound or sight of his home. Primmie dropped the mouth organ on the floor with a metallic clatter. Then there was the clatter of hoofs down the road, and Valdez appeared. The swineherd dropped his wooden spoon into the bowl with a clatter. He sits on his doorsill to take the sun's warmth, to hear the owls, to observe the clatter and turn of geese northbound in spring. Yet it did not seem so much the tramp of human footsteps as the clatter of sticks or the rattling of dry bones. But there is no noisy clatter of the cars to break the quietude. Must one clatter like kettledrums and penitential preachers? After the separate concussions could no longer be noted, the reverberations dwindled to a wild, long-sustained clatter of sounds such as a watchman's rattle produces. A frightful clatter came out of that hulk, and the virgin forest on the other bank of the creek sent it back in a thundering roll upon the sleeping station. Through the late autumn and the early winter every road and country lane resounded with nakir and trumpet, with the neigh of the war-horse and the clatter of marching men. Prop Logovi'i Mulipola was sin-binned for a high clatter on Attwood eight minutes later, then Mele was penalised for pushing over Peter Stringer and Ford kicked the goal. The show was arrogant, gigantesque, contemptuous of its audience, pretentious in its metaphors, sadistic in its manipulations, aggressive in its clatter and its clutter. Then he remembered that it was no fun being angry unless he had some one to frighten and make miserable, and he rushed to his big gong and made it clatter as loud as he could. There was something so big and arresting and virile in the man that the clatter and shouting died gradually away before his commanding gesture and his masterful eyes. They listened, breathless, when she told them the house in Esplanade Street was crowded with workmen, hammering, nailing, sawing, and filling the place with clatter. Find more words! 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