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

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

What follows is a lot of clattery, only intermittently funny comic riffing by Rogen and Franco as they play bumbling but well-meaning bourgeois nerds who are forced into physical action.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 18, 2014

He preferred showy, clattery things which exhibited her skill and muscular ability and left him wondering how she did it.

From The Financier, a novel by Dreiser, Theodore