CLATTER in a Sentence

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72 example sentences for CLATTER, such as:
1. Her cup clattered in the saucer.
2. It would make a magnificent clatter.
3. From beneath it came the clatter of musketry.
4. Pots and pans were clattering in the kitchen.
5. The metal basin clattered down the stone stairs.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of CLATTER
clatter
 n.  a rattling noise (often produced by rapid movement)
 v.  make a rattling sound
Classic Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
1  Prissy was off with a clatter and Scarlett watched her hurrying down the street, going faster than she had ever dreamed the worthless child could move.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
2  It was almost out of her reach and she jerked at it so impatiently the nails came out of the wood, and the curtains, pole and all, fell to the floor with a clatter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
3  She threw a wrapper about her gown and went hastily out into the dark hall, her backless slippers making a great clatter in the stillness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
4  For a long time Mammy strained her sharp ears but she could distinguish nothing except the clatter of silver on china, and the muffled soft tones of Melanie's voice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
5  Lily sat quiet, leaning to the fire: the clatter of cups behind her soothed her as familiar noises hush a child whom silence has kept wakeful.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
6  The clatter was a relief to Carol after months of smug houses.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  It would make a magnificent clatter.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  The night telegraph-operator at the railroad station was the most melodramatic figure in town: awake at three in the morning, alone in a room hectic with clatter of the telegraph key.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
9  The sewing-machine made a resounding clatter in the room; it was of a ponderous, by-gone make.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VIII
10  She went up in the mornings to Madame Lebrun's room, braving the clatter of the old sewing-machine.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVI
11  The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVII
12  They listened, breathless, when she told them the house in Esplanade Street was crowded with workmen, hammering, nailing, sawing, and filling the place with clatter.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXII
13  At last he heard from along the road at the foot of the hill the clatter of a horse's galloping hoofs.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
14  From beneath it came the clatter of musketry.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
15  Everything seemed to be listening to the crackle and clatter and earthshaking thunder.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
Example Sentence:
1  The boys stopped their clatter when the teacher came into the classroom.
2  The clatter came from the kitchen where pans were being washed.
3  Don't clatter the dishes - you'll wake the baby up.
4  Pots and pans were clattering in the kitchen.
5  Her cup clattered in the saucer.
6  His hand went limp and the knife clattered to the ground.
7  The metal basin clattered down the stone stairs.