The distant clatter and murmur of a busy building.

The Earl moved his cup towards her, and when a distant clatter in the kitchen startled both men, she noted how physically alike they were.

Now they could hear the distant clatter in the sky.

For ten seconds we stood silent before a dull distant clatter told that it had at last reached the bottom.

But the distant clatter was gone, the night silent.

She could hear the distant clatter of plates, which meant dinnertime for the patients.

Things fell with a distant clatter onto the marbled floor below.

Not long after, the distant clatter of falling rock started to echo through the tunnels, and his favorite scout returned to report.

With a distant clatter of closing doors the elevator came to life.

With another distant clatter of doomed tiles, the troll disappeared from view.