(v. i.) To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds.
(v. i.) To talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue.
(v. t.) To make a rattling noise with.
(n.) A rattling noise, esp. that made by the collision of hard bodies; also, any loud, abrupt sound; a repetition of abrupt sounds.
(n.) Commotion; disturbance.
(n.) Rapid, noisy talk; babble; chatter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Now Michael, what was the word I just said?” I told her the word was “Monday” and, with no more ado, she returned to her desk and clattered something out on her computer.
(2) 2.23am GMT Thoughts on the refereeing... Adam Large (@largeam) @ busfield Useless MLS referee.Letting Houston foul at will and things are already getting out of hand.I'm not a KC fan, but seriously... November 8, 2012 Updated at 2.23am GMT 2.22am GMT 12 mins Beautiful little flick by Kamara down the left, before he's clattered by Garcia.
(3) Richard Dunne clatters into him late, the goalkeeper goes down and several France players swarm around Dunne to voice their displeasure at the Ireland defender.
(4) 20-odd seconds: Suarez goes for a loose ball down the inside-right channel and clatters into the back of Ferdinand, who in turn wallops Evra.
(5) With the eight lanes of France’s most famous avenue cleared of all traffic on Paris’s first car-free day , the usual cacophony of car-revving and thundering motorbike engines had given way to the squeak of bicycle wheels, the clatter of skateboards, the laughter of children on rollerblades and even the gentle rustling of wind in the trees.
(6) A doltish young buck, hairless and pouting, will clatter through the doors of an annoying boutique.
(7) He's also clattered, allowing Toure the chance to belt a fierce shot at goal from out wide.
(8) Beyond the clattering of cameras and some polite pleasantries about the families, it was impossible to tell exactly what the monarch-in-waiting learned from the commander-in-chief – but he seems to be picking up some lessons on US political campaigning at least.
(9) 5.06pm BST 4 mins: Talking of Webb and his decisions, Fernandinho clatters Charles Aranguiz after the ball's gone and gets away with it because it's a little too early for yellow cards.
(10) After the own goal, the game’s full-blooded, directionless nature was epitomised when Ashley Williams, the Wales captain, clattered into Jonny Williams, leaving them both in need of treatment.
(11) He clatters into Kirm again, and is lucky to escape a booking.
(12) Williams, however, was starting to find her groove and despite giving Mattek-Sands hope with a break back at 5-3, two clattering returns helped her break again at 6-5 to clinch the set and level up.
(13) He's now clattered clumsily into the back of Matuidi.
(14) As the train clatters downtown, I allow myself to feel feisty, and just a little bit fond.
(15) The former clatters, accidentally, into the latter.
(16) Winchell's quick-fire radio and TV shows, where he delivered news and gossip, accompanied by clattering telexes, gave him enormous power, and he perfected the use of slang to avoid legal disputes, promising his listeners each week the lowdown on celebrity and politics, "the very very low low down down".
(17) We hear only noises – a burst of gunfire and the clatter of broken glass: she could be watching Harrison Ford fight back against the hijackers in Petersen’s Air Force One .
(18) Webb, in truth, had been given no choice in a contest that bristled from the opening exchange, when Robin van Persie flew in late to clatter Sergio Busquets behind the Spaniard's right knee.
(19) My pace was slow; a mountain biker whizzed past me, his spokes clattering as small stones ricocheted off.
(20) Aggrieved that Colback, already booked for going in late on Muniesa, had escaped a yellow card for clattering into Victor Moses a couple of minutes earlier, Stoke’s bench looked far from amused.
Rustle
Definition:
(v. i.) To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves.
(v. i.) To stir about energetically; to strive to succeed; to bustle about.
(v. t.) To cause to rustle; as, the wind rustles the leaves.
(n.) A quick succession or confusion of small sounds, like those made by shaking leaves or straw, by rubbing silk, or the like; a rustling.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
(2) There is the sound of engines hissing and crackling, which have been mixed to seem as near to the ear as the camera was to the cars; there is a mostly unnoticeable rustle of leaves in the trees; periodically, so faintly that almost no one would register it consciously, there is the sound of a car rolling through an intersection a block or two over, off camera; a dog barks somewhere far away.
(3) From ovary we can perceive a rustle produced by gas crossing in abdominal cavity.
(4) With the eight lanes of France’s most famous avenue cleared of all traffic on Paris’s first car-free day , the usual cacophony of car-revving and thundering motorbike engines had given way to the squeak of bicycle wheels, the clatter of skateboards, the laughter of children on rollerblades and even the gentle rustling of wind in the trees.
(5) The hillsides of the West Bank are rustling with industry.
(6) Recipe supplied by Sasha Martin, globaltableadventure.com Merguez sausage and sweet potato hash This unusual take on hash is quick to rustle up.
(7) Late summer light glances off stubble-filled fields, a delicate breeze rustles through the trees and birds chirp contentedly.
(8) On the cash-strapped Independent, they worry the money will dry up if Lebedev is jailed, while Evening Standard staff wonder how the local TV station is going to be rustled up out of an operation that has already been shorn of all journalistic fat.
(9) As the chancellor has found, even after Mervyn King has thrown the best part of £400bn at the economy, a recovery can't be rustled up to order.
(10) They used the guns they found there to rustle cattle in neighbouring Kenya and what is now South Sudan.
(11) It was once the scene of cattle rustling, with the various clans – including the Matheniko, Gei and Dodoth – of the Karamojong people stealing from and ambushing one another using guns looted from armouries after the fall of Idi Amin.
(12) There are lots of menacing notices about ‘DON’T COUGH – you will deafen millions of people’, ‘DON’T RUSTLE YOUR PAPERS’, and ‘Don’t turn to the announcer and say was that all right?
(13) You relax with a glass of local vin rosé , listening to the river and the rustling trees.
(14) He considers one of the key challenges to be starting a dialogue with spiritual leaders, known as spear masters, who get young men fired up to go cattle rustling in exchange for hefty fees.
(15) But first let it be said, whatever the merits of this latest policy, it would not have been rustled up unless the US economy was in the doldrums.
(16) Another wet, grey morning – and another rustle of music on the wind, this time by Tchaikovsky and this time in New Cross, south-east London, played by children at Myatt Garden primary school.
(17) Nasa scrambled to get replacement equipment aboard Dragon, as did schoolchildren who rustled up new science projects.
(18) Fifteen years after the fledgling business failed to rustle up $2m from Silicon Valley, Alibaba will be raising $21bn or more and will be valued at around $160bn, with dealings due to start next Friday.
(19) A thick tropical garden protects the breakfast terrace from the street, and Arthur often rustles up the egg and bacon himself.
(20) Or she's just stepped off Christopher Kane's catwalk at LFW and is rustling up a quick cake before she heads back to the after party.