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Synonyms for clatter
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ado, alarums and excursions, ballyhoo, blather, bluster, bobbery, bother, bustle, clutter [chiefly dialect], coil, commotion, corroboree [Australian], disturbance, do [chiefly dialect], foofaraw, fun, furor, furore, fuss, helter-skelter, hoo-ha (also hoo-hah), hoopla, hubble-bubble, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly, hurly-burly, hurricane, hurry, hurry-scurry (or hurry-skurry), kerfuffle [chiefly British], moil, pandemonium, pother, row, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, shindy, splore [Scottish], squall, stew, stir, storm, to-do, tumult, turmoil, uproar, welter, whirl, williwaw, zoo
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Examples of clatter in a Sentence
Verb
The shutters clattered against the house. He heard dishes clattering in the kitchen. The box dropped and dozens of marbles clattered across the floor. The wagon clattered down the road.Noun
the clatter of a crowded cafeteria
Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
Allen unleashed a swerving bullet that rattled into the top corner of the Coventry goal, clattering off the stanchion and bobbling back out. — SI.com, "Frank Lampard's 'Ghost Goal' Against Germany & the 8 Infamous Goals That Never Were," 27 June 2019 According to the Zoo, the vocalizations can indicate distress (chirps and honks), pain (squeals), a friendly gesture (bleats), a defensive threat (chomp—a teeth clattering rapid opening and closing of the mouth), or a bark to scare off an enemy. — Beth Py-lieberman, Smithsonian, "14 Fun Facts About Giant Pandas," 10 Aug. 2019 Capture the motion of dancing fountains, quirky trams clattering up steep streets, and tumbling acrobats at the Chapitô circus school. — National Geographic, "Lisbon High School Photography Workshop," 12 June 2019 In another room, a plastic light cover clattered to the floor. — Leah Sottile, Longreads, "Chapter One: A Quiet Man," 15 July 2019 Sweden ultimately had to hang on, with an offside ruling that went to VAR negating a possible penalty when keeper Hedvig Lindahl clattered into Popp. — Ravi Ubha, CNN, "Sweden stuns Germany at Women's World Cup as Dutch reach maiden semifinal," 29 June 2019 Students set up street parties, commuters honked their horns and grandmothers clattered their pots and pans. — Tom Ball, The New Republic, "How to Stage a Successful Revolution," 1 July 2019 On top of that, the sounds from the Metra and L trains came clattering through the walls. — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, "A new theater in Broad Ripple is now open, and its first show will be in September," 26 June 2019 Wedges of hot red and aquamarine collide and clatter apart flinging off shards of yellow and splinters of black and white. — Stephen Ellis, The New York Review of Books, "Willem de Kooning: Acrobat with a Paint Brush," 1 June 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
The ball pummels a triangle of 10 pins, which clatter like startled geese. — Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, "Flagler Village: New bars, restaurants invade funky Fort Lauderdale village," 23 Aug. 2019 That makes certain sense in an outdoor setting where the dialogue sometimes has to compete with the wail of ambulances, the clatter of helicopters, and the chiming of church bells. — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, "On the Common, a whimsical ‘Cymbeline’," 25 July 2019 None of this pro-Trump clatter reaches through the thick walls of the Arsht Center. — Washington Post, "Biden’s spin doctors, Beto’s flop, a sea of sweat: The madness after the Miami debates.," 28 June 2019 The clatter could be heard in nearby office buildings. — oregonlive.com, "Construction rods spill from crane in downtown Portland; no one injured," 11 June 2019 Research supports the idea that a little background sound can help people tune out sleep-disrupting creaks or clatter. — Markham Heid, Time, "Why Not Everyone Should Sleep with a White Noise Machine," 4 June 2019