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UK
/ɹˈætəl/
]
[ US /ˈɹætəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈɹætəɫ/ ]
VERB
- make short successive sounds
- shake and cause to make a rattling noise
NOUN
- loosely connected horny sections at the end of a rattlesnake's tail
- a baby's toy that makes percussive noises when shaken
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a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders)
the death rattle
How To Use rattle In A Sentence
- You think Spielberg would only have a rattletrap third-rate spaceship like the Millennium Falcon to ensure his survival? Does George Lucas think the world will end in 2012?
- The boa and the rattlesnake are homebodies that seldom travel more than a couple of miles in a lifetime.
- Gil probably should have thought about that and realized that a street address with the word rattlesnake in it was most likely a bad omen—that things probably wouldn’t turn out well if they tried living there. Fatal Error
- It was built on the track of an elephant trail and it was so rough that it rattled our bones and sent the radio antenna into a series of harmonic wobbles.
- Order now before today's pussified, PADI-preaching prattlers warp you into taking "living reef eco-tours" when, instead, you could be going 30 fathoms deep and power-heading jewfish between the eyes. Hell Divers' Rodeo
- Soon the seeds in the inflated seed cases of the yellow rattle will be hard and rattle at a brush.
- She gave me a cheerful grin and rattled off her past employers, accompanied by a brief biodata, both seemingly satisfying.
- A dear little announcerette rattled off expert intros to various gymnastic jingles, one of which featured dogs barking in the background.
- He looked at the capable assistant with sincere eyes knowing that this would rattle him into some flustered explanation of his whereabouts.
- Is that anger enough to overturn governments and rattle the founding idea of Europe? Times, Sunday Times