clattery
Example Sentences
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The chord progression and clattery percussion on “Dead Women” evoke “Lay Lady Lay,” while Mitski’s song imagines someone pawing through her things after death, trying to uncover her secrets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
Disney Hall is famed for its vivid acoustics, yet at relatively close proximity details could be still be hard to pick out in the clattery texture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
The beat is clattery, jittery and subject to explosive changes; the melody that Meaghan Burke sings with such nervous intensity is full of leaps and angles, but there’s no escape.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2018
Sharma’s life was in flux the day in April when she hopped into a clattery auto-rickshaw to head out to the property she owned.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2016
The footfall in the hall this time was decided and not clattery.
From Dorothy Dale in the City by Penrose, Margaret
