clatter

Object

• percussion: The piece later turns into a meditative journey, with Ward becoming peaceful amidst Sanders clattering percussion.
• drum: Made sense to me, anyway ' Venus ' is all tension and spiraling guitars and wonderful clattering drums.
• noise: Just then, she heard a strange clattering noise in another room.
• sound: There was a clattering sound as daggers were dropped to the ground.

Converse of object

• hear: I hear him leading his horse out of the stall, I hear the clatter on the barn floor.
• make: I pulled a table with milk vessels and a few pots with me, making a big clatter.

Adjective modifier

• loud: It dropped quickly to the floor with a loud clatter.
• great: His sword made a great clatter, as if the shop were too small for it.

Modifying Another Word

away: You clatter away in your ignorance, with never any reflection!

Followed by an intransitive particle

• around: Don't allow your precious watches to pick up storage marks from clattering around.
• down: With an interest rate increase they will clatter down even faster.
• up: There we met Dave and Tanya who had heard us clattering up through Pip.
• off: But she says nothing to me and the driver and his machine clatter off at speed across the lawn.

Followed by a transitive particle

• down: About ten o'clock we heard someone with spurs on, come clattering down the whole length of the house.
• up: He clattered up the narrow winding stairway into the gallery.
• off: Now and then you will hear one woman clattering off prayers for the edification of the others at their work.

Preposition: of

• hoof: He disappeared round a corner leaving Kai to follow the clatter of hoofs.
• wicket: Top order runs are hard to come by while an early clatter of wickets by our bowlers even scarcer.
• horse: She could hear the clatter of the horses ' hooves in the street below, the murmur of the workmen playing morra next door.
• foot: The corridor is a clatter of wee feet and chatter.