A clattering typewriter. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used without object) : The shutters clattered in the wind. ,The iron-wheeled cart clattered down the street. ,They clattered on and on about their children. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : clattering the pots and pans in the sink. From Dictionary.com.
Kyle moaned as the toaster slowly rose, clattering from the table to hover a few feet above it in the air. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2008 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
I caught him as he fell, the great iron sword clattering to the floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreamthief's Daughter]
Then the Mundane turned into a purple toad, his sword clattering to the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Labor Policy] Reference
Then suddenly the brute I was flying through the air, his sword clattering at Rig's feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of the Tempest]
As it was, he was hurled sprawling to the pavement, his sword clattering out of his grasp. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Freebooter]
The Drujani jerked hard on the haft of his weapon and Joscelin was disarmed, the sword clattering onto the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
And there, sure enough, the Black Captain strode by, with his sword clattering as if it did not know whose head to cut off first. From Wordnik.com. [Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories] Reference
With a shriek, the blood gushing from the wound, the master of the boar fell lifeless on the stairs, his sword clattering downward. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
I might have him, he thought, and his mind tossed him the image of piles of silver coins clattering out of the belly of a one-armed bandit. From Wordnik.com. [Memory of Fire]
Theo discussed: why he didn't mind getting a 'clattering'. From Wordnik.com. [Arsenal FC News Feed] Reference
I threw my sword clattering down the slope. From Wordnik.com. [Father Swarat] Reference
The clattering of plates in the kitchen continued. From Wordnik.com. [WHIPS, TEARS AND BLOOD:] Reference
Then there's this clattering noise for a few minutes. From Wordnik.com. [KEEP IT SIMPLE, PLEASE!] Reference
The farmer was on the rungs again, the ladder clattering. From Wordnik.com. [Why'd You Come Back?] Reference
Suddenly he pulled in the oar and dropped it clattering aboard. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
Dogs sitting on roofs, birds flying about indoors, clattering locusts. From Wordnik.com. [The Night of the Day the Khoi-Khoi Meet Bartolomeu Dias and Crew] Reference
We can imagine the clattering of the hoofs on the hard stones of the Via. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
There seemed to be millions of them, all clattering and pointing at him. From Wordnik.com. [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference
A heavy trampling and the clattering of arms announced the arrival of the. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The little girl was away like the wind, her broken shoes clattering over the flagstones. From Wordnik.com. [How Janice Day Won] Reference
Then there was a clattering of boots and the small boat bumped the sloop's counter again. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
A post-chaise soon came clattering along the road, and out of it jumped Sir Wiley Reynard. From Wordnik.com. [Comical People] Reference
And reaching his desk, the little boy slammed down his slate with clattering reverberations. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
For the praises of many tongues, is in effect no better than the clattering of so many tongues. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
There was a sound of clattering plates from end to end of the train, in a mist of tobacco-smoke. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
And he come out with his back pack and all these pots and pans he tied on the back of it clattering. From Wordnik.com. [Hobo, Interrupted, Still 'Dreams of Trains'] Reference
His mouth went like an O, -- and his eyes ditto, his eyeglass clattering down on to his shirt front. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
I listened to Bike again this week – chugging and clattering and waltzing its way to its conclusion. From Wordnik.com. [Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll] Reference
As he spoke there came a loud clattering sound down near the elevators -- the halfway mark of the race. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a White Rocking Horse] Reference
Instantly the giant's arms dropped to his side, his hands relaxed and the handles dropped clattering to the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in Captivity, or a Daring Escape By Airship] Reference
Army helicopters and gunships will come clattering out of the sky, bearing hundreds of weapons-toting American GIs. From Wordnik.com. [Shipping Out] Reference
No way but suicide king and down the alley roared the car clitter clattering up the motorways and through towards evermore. From Wordnik.com. [Final Resting Place of The Pen] Reference
There was, first, the blow itself, then the shivering of the glass, then the clattering of fragments into the area beneath. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Presently a clattering of hoofs was heard, and looking toward the sound, I perceived the Chancellor cantering down the road. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
It flew back into the stands behind home plate, clattering against the steps mere inches from Chicago's Mayor, Richard M. Daley. From Wordnik.com. [WATCH: Mayor Daley Nearly Hit By Baseball Bat At White Sox Game] Reference
The men tumbled over each other down the embankment, a mixture of bodies, legs, arms and tools, with the rail clattering after them. From Wordnik.com. [Tom of the Raiders] Reference
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