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rat-tat

NOUN
  1. a series of short sharp taps (as made by strokes on a drum or knocks on a door)

How To Use rat-tat In A Sentence

  • Straight before us lay the key to Ladysmith -- Platrand, whence now and again came the sharp rat-tat of the Metford, followed by the Mauser's significant cough. With Steyn and De Wet
  • Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of the rat-tat! The History of Pendennis
  • Swing is about the dancing, the music, the spirit of lower-class youth, the rat-tat-tat of a song you just can't get out of your head.
  • Claxby tut-tutted, a sharp little rat-tat through clenched teeth that sounded more like gunshot. The Fifth Rapunzel
  • The pounding of the cannon increased; there was the rat-tat-tatting of machine guns, and from somewhere came the menacing pocketa-pocketa-pocketa of the new flame-throwers.
  • Swing is about the dancing, the music, the spirit of lower-class youth, the rat-tat-tat of a song you just can't get out of your head.
  • Suddenly there came a little _rat-tat_ at the door. How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell
  • This necessitated frequent tacks, so that, overhead, the mainsail was ever swooping across from port tack to starboard tack and back again, making air-noises like the swish of wings, sharply rat-tat-tatting its reef points and loudly crashing its mainsheet gear along the traveller. CHAPTER III
  • Her headsails emptied, there was a rat-tat of reef-points and quick shifting of boom - tackles, and she was heeled over and filled away on the other tack. THE PEARLS OF PARLAY
  • They sat there in complete silence, save for the consistent rat-tat-tat of Gabe's leg knocking over and over against the hard metal of the chair.
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