clatter

Example Sentences

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Aromatics are where things begin: ginger, garlic, onions and their cousins; the soft clatter of mirepoix or soffritto; a bloom of spices warming in fat.

From Salon • Feb. 8, 2026

Dishes clatter, steam bursts from large cooking pots and music is seeping through the bustling chatter of Russian pensioners, hunched over bowls of free meals in a Saint Petersburg soup kitchen.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

Anderson’s crew entombed their cameras in a custom-built insulated box to prevent their clatter from bleeding into the dialogue and sound of the film.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

That rude clatter is his equivalent of a sonnet.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2025

They clatter and scatter, creating a terrible blockage and commotion.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin