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.
Fast now, clattery, not the stealthy creaking tread from last night. From Wordnik.com. [Homebody]
Higby briskly went over and started the large, noisy, clattery, tinny. From Wordnik.com. [An American Tragedy] Reference
No longer smoky, clattery beasts of burden suitable only for BMW's new 7-series Q ship. From Wordnik.com. [The Car Connection] Reference
This train ride sounds clattery and jaunty, as the author does not seem concerned if he will find his baby. From Wordnik.com. [Expecting Rain] Reference
They do a kind of surfy version of New Order, bright and clattery, a minimalist collision of the 1950s and the 1980s. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Bill Cosby Launches Socially Conscious Hip Hop Project] Reference
He preferred showy, clattery things which exhibited her skill and muscular ability and left him wondering how she did it. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier, a novel] Reference
The food at Moro is splendid but the dining room is a fairly clattery place and doesn't lend itself to important chit-chat. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
Ranging from dusty old soul to big gospel harmonies, with clattery percussion that evokes Spoon at times and smolders at others. From Wordnik.com. [Fuel/Friends Music Blog] Reference
He is a sharp songwriter still in search of his own original musical style, with lazy horns and clattery drums not disguising the fact. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Over a laid-back, clattery backbeat between trip-hop and jazz-funk, Dylan rambles about fame, aging and love, dancing with his own noodly guitar lines. From Wordnik.com. [Expecting Rain] Reference
There was a small piano in this room, a clattery, wheezy, asthmatic thing, certainly the very worst miscarriage in the way of a piano that the world has seen. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp Abroad — Volume 05] Reference
I couldn't help wondering whether this was partly down to the carbon armour also acting as a vibration damper - either way it made for a distinctly un-clattery ride. From Wordnik.com. [Singletrack World] Reference
Since most of the Matadors were made with clattery, smog-belching VW air-cooled engines (driving the front wheels), such a project has remained but a dream … until today!. From Wordnik.com. [Jalopnik] Reference
It can be a bit clattery at start-up but smooths out impressively once the Greenline is under way, to the extent that this Superb must be one of the quietest cruisers on the market. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Why aren't more restaurants like Cheebo - a smart, fun, clattery cafe where the food is mostly organic, very fresh, modestly priced and prepared with an inarguable flair for flavor?. From Wordnik.com. [LA Weekly | Complete Issue] Reference
Ruby Blue, a collaboration with Moloko singer Róisín Murphy, is Herbert's most complete statement to date, a string of dusky torch songs, slo-mo dance-floor grooves, and clattery glam pop. From Wordnik.com. [Pitchfork: Latest News] Reference
The most obvious comparison is probably The Dodos (clattery drums, glockenspiel, whistling), but I even hear a little Real Estate in there too on the track "Away FRM You" which you can download above. From Wordnik.com. [brooklynvegan] Reference
Pencils with broken leads, yellowed instructions, faded homemade scorecards, and assorted sub-ins for lost game pieces litter the box and make it look like that clattery kitchen drawer of assorted knick-knacks. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
Is it that i am out of step with the people around me...and that my truth sounds clattery in their ears?. From Wordnik.com. [authenticity] Reference
More typing with the accompaniment of the Ting Tings and their clittery-clattery and utterly pernicious “That’s Not My Name”; then my ears switched over to Dr. Dog and their delicious harmonies. From Wordnik.com. [Lollapalooza 08 Saturday: We Rage happily, if not safely | EW.com] Reference
When we made 'This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours' it was our biggest-selling record in the world and then we made a clattery experimental punk album in 'Know Your Enemy' and managed to downgrade all our sales. ". From Wordnik.com. [Musicrooms.net - Music Games Movies - The Latest News, Reviews, Interviews And Videos] Reference
Droning hypnotic clattery free folk, dark and propulsive, mesmeric Krautrock, rhythmic pagan musicial rituals, all detuned guitars and hand drums, chanting and wild free percussion, and everything in between. ". From Wordnik.com. [Playback:stl Syndication] Reference
"Machines are so clattery," she said. From Wordnik.com. [The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes] Reference
Some clattery sounds. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient, Strange, and Lovely] Reference
Something clattery. From Wordnik.com. [Earthly Possessions]
That first clattery-chat-clatter-spatter-pip had sounded quite authoritative. From Wordnik.com. [A Canticle for Leibowitz]
2004-10-08 chattery-clattery-chattery - 2004-10-05 filibuster - 2004-09-28 yule-agy read at the top of niagara falls into an old tyme microphone to the entire world - 2004-09-27 cold cold cold shoulders - 2004-09-25. From Wordnik.com. [the-forest Diary Entry] Reference
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