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Clattering


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clatter

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.

Hurtle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.
  • (v. t.) To move rapidly; to wheel or rush suddenly or with violence; to whirl round rapidly; to skirmish.
  • (v. t.) To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.
  • (v. t.) To move with violence or impetuosity; to whirl; to brandish.
  • (v. t.) To push; to jostle; to hurl.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Japan's efforts were widely regarded as too late, coming after many years of pain, but the Bank of Japan is now at it all over again, as the Japanese economy hurtles into a severe recession.
  • (2) Cohen crossed the ball long from the right and Hurst rose magnificently to deflect in another header which Tilkowski could only scramble away from his right hand post, Ball turned the ball back into the goalmouth and the German’s desperation was unmistakable as Overath came hurtling in to scythe the ball away for a corner.
  • (3) For 20 years the great British inequality machine has hurtled on, driven largely by the burgeoning incomes of this top 0.1% – almost all of whom are directors, bankers or work in business services and real estate – who captured the lion’s share of any gains in real productivity.
  • (4) We hurtled into Barcelona at speeds that should have torn Eglantine's juddering Peugeot 205 apart.
  • (5) A Barça attack broke down deep in Madrid territory and the ball was quickly slipped to Bale, who, from the half-way line, hurtles forward, playing the ball past Bartra and running on to it again and into the box.
  • (6) The books there can take you back in time or hurtle you into the future.
  • (7) Pisczek hurtles up from the back to join in but his shot from the edge of the area is well blocked by Ramos.
  • (8) I will admit that we often "hurtle", but not in a reassuring way.
  • (9) Kyle Walker hurtled down the right and picked out Alli, who, like Son for the first goal, had found space in the middle of the area and took full advantage.
  • (10) Gradually adjusting to a summer evening's long shadows, you register that all those elements are held in place by a single, dead straight Roman road, hurtling away from the canvas's foreground to far-off mountains.
  • (11) Muller then rolled the ball from a narrow angle towards the net... but Subotic produced an improbable twist by hurtling back to clear off the line, right under Robben, who was trying to escort the ball into the net rather than stretch and actually poke it in.
  • (12) Bale only threatened intermittently now, another wondrous free-kick from him in the 69th minute hurtling inches wide.
  • (13) He was accused of murderous human rights abuses, had been convicted in absentia of corruption and the club was hurtling towards ruin.
  • (14) Instead of sagely drawing back, Pyongyang's generals are recklessly hurtling forward.
  • (15) Karl Sabbagh Newbold on Stour, Warwickshire • Might I suggest Ian Birrell samples the delights of Northern Rail's rolling stock on its non-electrified lines before claiming "we hurtle along in slick modern trains".
  • (16) Vladimir Putin's United Russia party has come under fire for a suggestive election advert as the party's popularity hurtles towards record lows.
  • (17) The boss of PKO Bank Polski predicted that Europe was hurtling towards its Lehman moment, with Portugal, Spain, and Italy being dragged into the slipstream of a Greek exit.
  • (18) Hopefully for Sniper Elite V3 there'll be an even more comprehensive kill sequence in which, after an even more explicit close-up of the bullet boring a path through some Nazi intestine, the camera hurtles to the other side of the world and shows his sweetheart's expression as she receives a telegram announcing his death.
  • (19) She even posed as Bruce Bechdel in his coffin - "I put on a jacket and tie and crossed my arms" - and revisited the place of his death, where she took pictures of trucks hurtling by.
  • (20) Just before I hurtled off into the abyss, the wind seized my parachute and whisked me up into the air.

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