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Soft taped music in restaurants tends to mask the clatter of crockery and the conversation at the next table.

But all that clatter may also drown out the taste of your food, making it more bland.

To my dismay this caused the camera he was holding to fly out of his hands and clatter to the pavement.

My first thought was that it sprang from that admirable Chinese trait of searching out enduring patterns in the clatter and chaos of events.

In vain they rush frantically round from place to place, trying to escape from avenging boredom by mere clatter and motion.

I jumped back to the garage, threw the hammer down on the workbench with a loud clatter, and jumped back to the apartment.

You can almost hear the clatter of horses' hoofs on the narrow streets, the cries of the children and the laughter of the shopkeepers.

The spoon dropped with a clatter from her hand.

The moment she saw Harry, Ginny accidentally knocked her porridge bowl to the floor with a loud clatter.

They were rushing into a more crowded yard, alive with the clatter and clang of life.

She went into the pantry, and there was a clatter of dishes.

Each morning, Wall Street awakens to the clitter-clatter of helicopter blades thrashing through the air.

Every four years, as the clatter of the presidential campaign reaches a crescendo, Wall Street adds its voice to the din.

Walt : full game on the small game, like returning to childhood, oh, wrong to be punished clatter.

and "Such a Clatter! " is a dynamic explosion of objects.

And then, above the noise and clatter of the street traffic came to me the message: "You can trust the Man that died for you. "

Heads turned in surprise as the cane fell with a clatter to the marble floor.

With a clatter, the flatterer shattered the chattering wattmeter in the chaos .

There was a clatter of dishes and plates in the kitchen.

Silence predominates , broken only by the sound of shifting plates, sliding of bowls, and soft clatter of utensils.

Outside the cab, pigeons clatter up across the blinking blue of a Sony sign.

LET us, therefore, confront the clatter and rigidity we see around us with tolerance, variety, and calm.

It was Howell's misfortune that he had to listen to all their clatter.

The hill side was alive with clatter and motion; with sudden up-springing lights among the pines.

There was a clatter of dishes in the kitchen.

She went downstairs with a cheerful clatter, singing.

She heard of the gentle tinkling of teaspoons, and musical clatter of cups and saucers.

From somewhere distant he heard the clatter of a typewriter.

There were early lights in the cable cars, whose usual clatter was reduced by the mantle about the wheels.

Pigeons lifted from the roofs in a clatter of multicolored wings.

And threw it at the water-trough with a clatter.

and dance in the clatter of classics, help to eliminate stress and promote the health of body and mind.

Then clatter, clatter up the stairs.

The crack of whips, the clatter of wheels, galloping horses and jolting chariots!

The discord and clatter uptown offended his nice ear; so a friend had sent him to this oasis in the desert of noise.

clatter came from the kitchen where pans were being washed.

The trees screeching with frost. A ceaseless clatter of wooden shoes.

The sounds of cooking and the clatter of dishes came from the kitchen.

It dropped onto the board with a clatter .

The clatter of metal plates was heard from the kitchen.

after tossing and turning all night . i awake before dawn to the clatter of something pelting the window.

There is the clatter of footsteps in the corridor. Something must have happened.

"They made beneath the table A noise, a clatter of the feet that was abominable, " says Moliere.

A train would pass by, making a steely clatter across the bridge, which was quite long.

Don't clatter your knIves and forks about, I can't hear myself speak!

The clatter of cutlery, horse's hoofs, a typewriter.

Page 48: The clatter of armor and clanking of metal could be heard.

Don't clatter those dishes about, you'll break them.

He heard the clatter of chairs and smelt the well-known foul air.

Don't clatter your knives and forks at table.

They heard a clatter below stairs.

And as bodies continue to clatter, dainty Alfonso is felled just outside the area in minute 21.

Just over the border from Hong Kong, the shriek of car horns and clatter of machinery fill the air of Shenzhen, China.

Every day editorial rooms clatter with the sound of musical chairs and broken egos.

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter

Dictators clatter down the stairs and batten down the hatches as their regimes implode;

And a clatter and a chatter from within,

Just the bang and the clatter