verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
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Willie rose and clattered down the hallway.
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Massive curtains of rain clattered down from wrathful skies, and the streets were full of swishing Audis and Mercedes.
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The next moment something heavy came clattering down the stairs.
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She clattered down the steps - noise is reassuring - and entered the church.
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Helpless, he toppled forward into blackness: his hand went limp and the knife clattered down on to the foot-rest.
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I raced back to the house, clattered down the hall and jumped behind the wheel of my Nova.
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I clattered down the street-my heels noisy as castanets on the kerb-through to the market.
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He clattered down the stairs two, three at a time, and almost fell when he reached the bottom.
■ NOUN
floor
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As he yanked one out for himself, something clattered loudly to the floor .
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The phone clattered to the shower floor .
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Something clattered on the tile floor , behind a frothing bed of shrubs.
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They clatter on to the floor loudly.
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His gun clattered noisily to the floor .
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Something heavy fell out of his pocket and clattered to the floor and lay hunched and dark.
stair
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Two hours later we clatter down the stairs of a West End restaurant feeling like two plum puddings on legs.
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The next moment something heavy came clattering down the stairs .
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He clattered down the stairs two, three at a time, and almost fell when he reached the bottom.
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I just flourished an arm and clattered down the stairs .
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They heard her clatter down the basement stairs to her room.
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The soldier walked ahead of me, holding his sword in his left hand so that it didn't clatter against the stairs .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All the pots clattered to the floor.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Boldly he kicked loose stones off the ledges and heard them clatter into the silence below.
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He picked out something from the shelves and made a clattering U-turn.
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Her heart was clattering inside her.
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Her splayed arms sent the dishes clattering.
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His gun clattered noisily to the floor.
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Wyatt hoisted himself up into the truck and began to push and shove the rest of the load on to the clattering pile.