Clattery

I recall caroms as a delightfully clattery sort of a game. ❋ Unknown (2011)

How about the sound of the words — soft consonants, sliding like water over stones, or clattery consonants banging around? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Bruce wants to move seats because he can't hear me; it's a lovely place but it is… clattery. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Beck composed (but does not sing, though he shows up alone on other tracks) songs for Pilgrim's band, Sex Bob-Omb, which are uniformly clattery and brief and un-Beck-like. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Their horses were skittish, all white rolling eyes and sweaty flanks, picking their way on clattery hooves across the cobblestones and through the milling crowds to form a ragged barricade between the unruly crowd and the park, the Polo Grounds. ❋ Joseph Wallace (2010)

This gets at least one vote for the most pointless piano concerto in the active repertoire, a clattery stream of scales and arpeggios that the pianist must deliver at top speed in a desperate search to keep the audience from expiring out of sheer boredom at the lack of any musical ideas. ❋ Lisa Hirsch (2007)

She had loud, clattery doorknob earrings of her own and wore a gray sweatshirt that said MOMS RULE! in plaid stitching. ❋ Andy Greenwald (2006)

He preferred showy, clattery things which exhibited her skill and muscular ability and left him wondering how she did it. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Higby briskly went over and started the large, noisy, clattery, tinny ❋ Unknown (2004)

But the vast clattery space was really not appropriate for my kind of intimate moment — if it had been me. ❋ Lindsay, Jeff (2004)

Fast now, clattery, not the stealthy creaking tread from last night. ❋ Card, Orson Scott (1998)

With infinite agility she scrambled to her knees and went darting off on all fours like a squirrel into some mysterious, clattery corner of the darkness from which she emerged at last with one little gray flannel arm crooked inclusively around a whole elbowful of treasure. ❋ Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1915)

And _run_ and _run_ and _run_ down clattery streets and through black woods and across green pastures ❋ Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1915)

She was so gay and responsive that one did not mind her heavy, running step, or her clattery way with pans. ❋ Willa Sibert Cather (1910)