How To Use Rattled In A Sentence

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 gently rattled the cage and whispered to the canary.
Who rattled your cage?
They have rattled the narcos, impeding some trafficking routes and increasing weapons seizures.

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.
My faith, the very name begets a towering conceit wherever it goes," he answered, and he brought his stick down on the floor with such vehemence that the emerald and ruby rings rattled on his shrunken fingers. The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
He waved the man off dismissively and we all watched as his car clunked and rattled its way out of the parking lot.
At the same time three muskets were discharged; and while one ball rattled against the corslet of proof, to the strength of which our valiant Captain had been more than once indebted for his life, another penetrated the armour which covered the front of his left thigh, and stretched him on the ground. A Legend of Montrose
I rattled and sang to detoxify the current of anger the anti-abortion marchers projected.
Lou prattled on about various trivialities till I wanted to scream.
As their teacher rattled off numbers in Chinese, the duo listened, picked up their markers, wrote identical answers on whiteboards and held it up for the audience to see!
England were rocked back, their famously brittle confidence rattled again. Times, Sunday Times
Slightly rattled you say the dog belongs to your boyfriend. Times, Sunday Times
Many smaller tremors had rattled the area in the months before the quake, which destroyed much of the historic centre of the city. Times, Sunday Times
The carriage rattled gently past the gatehouse, its wheels grating on the rocky path into the courtyard.
She'd have prattled on about her new job for the whole afternoon if I'd let her.
She prattled the secret to the stranger.
They had wrested the lead from Melrose by a one-point margin, and were facing an opposition that looked rattled, weary and vulnerable, with just five minutes to go.
I hope it's not something that would break if you rattled it too hard.
The truck jolted and rattled over the rough ground.
So the president decided to call a news conference, and he rattled some reporters by giving them just 45 minutes notice this time.
$2.39 billion to $12.85 billion during the week when the main American indices plunged more than five per cent as the escalating Greece debt crisis rattled the global markets during the week. The Times of India
The mechanised contraption rattled its way over the rolling hills.
An officer rattled off some statistics about the aid program.
An officer rattled off some statistics about the aid program.
Surely scowling is the big giveaway to your opponent that they are getting the better of exchanges and you are getting rattled. The Sun
The stairs creaked and groaned and rattled in protest.
And Jo shook the blue army sock till the needles rattled like castanets, and her ball bounded across the room.
Dad and I rattled around miserably in the house after Mum died.
The helicopter rattled a bit, the engine spooled back up, and Nr rapidly rose to 100 percent.
Werner's voice was a bit sharp; he was rattled by something almost feverish in her tone, and those twin spots of raspberry colour high on Gretina's normally sallow cheeks.
He took green but rattled a difficult brown and Watkinson picked off brown, blue and pink to win 83-49.
As the young woman rattled on she grew more and more glib; she was what they call whopper-jawed, and spoke a language almost purely consonantal, cutting and clipping her words with a rapid play of her whopper-jaw till there was nothing but the bare bones left of them. The Minister's Charge
Loud rattled the teaboard to Mrs. Berry's dropping hands. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
Slightly rattled you say the dog belongs to your boyfriend. Times, Sunday Times
Then, the hostler was told to give the horse his head; and, his head being given him, he made a very unpleasant use of it: tossing it into the air with great disdain, and running into the parlour windows over the way; after performing those feats, and supporting himself for a short time on his hind – legs, he started off at great speed, and rattled out of the town right gallantly. Oliver Twist
It is true, these beautifully gowned, beautiful women prattled sweet little ideals and dear little moralities; but in spite of their prattle the dominant key of the life they lived was materialistic. What Life Means to Me
Successive governments have prattled on at length about the importance of this for our economy and for our businesses.
From what sounds like an amalgamation of hardcore and thrash metal, any promising musical ability is then shrouded by the raspy rap-rattled-off vocals, which are then accompanied by a dominating rhythm.
His spirits exhilarated by the unexpected good cheer, the Comedian gave way to his naturally blithe humour; and between every mouthful he rattled or rather drolled on, now infant-like, now sage-like. What Will He Do with It? — Volume 03
England were rocked back, their famously brittle confidence rattled again. Times, Sunday Times
A cart full of milk - bottles rattled past.
The vibrations of the vehicles rattled the shop windows.
The spritsailyard rattled, and broke off sharp'at the point where it crossed the bowsprit; and a heavy smashing thump against our bows told, in fearful language, that we had run her down. Tom Cringle's Log
Surely scowling is the big giveaway to your opponent that they are getting the better of exchanges and you are getting rattled. The Sun
He gently rattled the cage and whispered to the canary.
Underpinning the optimism is a belief that the sovereign-debt concerns that rattled markets earlier in the year have become less threatening. Deal Making Increases in Europe
‘Just before half-time things were not going too bad and then the goal that they got rattled us before we went in,’ he said.
But the ambush, and the enemy flares and gunfire that followed, rattled the men of Bravo Company more than any event.
Such tours brought the middle-class walker into contact with the common people who shared the roads, while the rich rattled past in their coaches. The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
An earthquake rattled the area knocking the teen hero to the ground.
At a Celebration of Reading ceremony in 2001, the president rattled off a dozen of his own lulus to a delighted audience.
My guard had been increased and it was a small army of a couple of dozen soldiers who rattled around with me.
Old-timers recall barefoot children scampering into the woods to hide when the first cars rattled into their villages in the 1950s. Oil Spill Threatens Way Of Life For American-Indian Fishing Villages
A cart rattled past .
From the shrinking snowpack of Western Washington through the unseasonable fog and heat of California to the drought of Baja, something was up with the climate, and people were rattled.
It was overflown thirteen times in the previous two days by Israeli Air Force planes and eight times just prior to the Israeli attack by various IAF aircraft, some passing so close their engine vibration rattled the Liberty's deck plates and some of their pilots even waved to crew members on board. Thomas Lipscomb: Maybe Brzezinski is Half Right?
The West Indies had rattled up 411 for 5 when rain stopped play.
An old blue van rattled into view.
She rattled some coins in the box.
Way back in junior high I did the science fair thing on deer behavior, I think I did a lot of stuff on moon phases, but I also remember doing a rattling demonstration somewhere in there ... funny thing is, I've never actually rattled while I was hunting. Proud Dad Alert!
A chesty cough rattled its way from inside the frail woman.
Brind seemed somewhat rattled by a few disputed calls at critical junctures of the match.
An explosion and fire at a sprawling sugar refinery rattled this Savannah suburb Thursday night, severe-ly injuring dozens of people.
Walking around the city last night, several hours after the morning's atrocities, many people were visibly rattled by what had happened.
I went back to her, held her hand and prattled away for a little while.
Over two sets in which he visibly unwound from a nervous start, Cullum rattled through originals, pop covers and standards, with a yearning account of Radiohead's High And Dry, and Fran Landesman's classic Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most – riskily but successfully joining intimate balladry to beatboxing – the highlights. Hugh Laurie at Cheltenham Jazz Festival - review
The sky rattled loudly and the noise sounded like rain clouds thumping together, creating a shaft movement of energy.
Over time, that insignificant value becomes significant," said Connors, who rattled through an abridged list of Khannouchi's ailments—patellofemoral syndrome, ankle impingement, bone spurs and something called hallux rigidus, which is degenerative arthritis in the big toe. The Achy Return of a Running Icon
As their teacher rattled off numbers in Chinese, the duo listened, picked up their markers, wrote identical answers on whiteboards and held it up for the audience to see!
Another thing which she had not done for some time, Wendy realized as she rattled round the empty house on Saturday morning, was try out Pete's latest composing aid.
As Mom drove and rattled on endlessly about how wonderful her high school years were, I studied my class schedule which I hastily scotch-taped to the cover of my binder.
Wanderers twice rattled the woodwork. The Sun
She refused to be rattled by his ￡3,000-a-day lawyer.
His confidence was rattled by the accident.
He must not, however, allow the remarks of coacher or spectators to cause him to become rattled or confused. Outdoor Sports and Games
flivver" as it bounced and squeaked and rattled and splashed its way along. Galusha the Magnificent
I simply couldn't grasp this idea with my mind, especially with my brain rattled up enough as it was.
The tin is being rattled hard again this week for more corporate support.
Still, his downbeat tone has rattled bankers and business leaders. Times, Sunday Times
The windowpanes rattled, and the girls could feel the subsonic boom of a bomb exploding.
The blond and the jock were still finishing up their witty repartee while frantic techno music rattled on in the background.
Even the grasshoppers ceased their churr in the trees — only a window rattled somewhere. First Love
His job requires him to fly a great deal, and he spent a week going up and down with ears packed tight with cee-ment, and when they finally popped I think it rattled china in Duluth. Wednesday, Sept. 30 – The Bleat.
Every time a bus went past,(Sentence dictionary) the windows rattled.
His puck-handling prowess can cause him to get overconfident or rattled by elements such as a kink in the boards of a road arena.
His mocking smile rattled her more than his anger.
I simply stared across the empty greyness while my headache rattled my brain cells like a QuaAvian earthquake.
And I am rattled till my screws come loose, I am rattled like, like… the way, when I am in a mood, I attack and scour a sooty pot.
He rattled off the names of various Muslim sects, both Shia and Sunni.
Just so, pusillanimous; prattling out little moralities that have been prattled into them, and afraid to live life. Chapter 32
rattled off the facts in a dry mechanical manner
There was a clink as some of the coins rattled to its tin floor.
Strong gusts of wind rattled the shutters in their frames, driving the rain against the slate roof with such vigour it sounded like hail.
He rattled the first two fences and his race was as good as done. The Sun
So remote is this little place from the stir and bustle of travel, and so destitute of the show and vainglory of this world, that my calesa, as it rattled and jingled along the narrow and ill-paved streets, caused a great sensation; the children shouted and scampered along by its side, admiring its splendid trappings of brass and worsted, and gazing with reverence at the important stranger who came in so gorgeous an equipage. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II)
The wind blew hard.The doors and windows rattled all night.
All I'd been told was to get hold of her and scare her, get Gerald rattled, you know.
Lula -- issued from a very poor family in the poor northeast, and a former metalworker -- rattled the nerves of the old-style Brazilian sub-imperialist comprador elite to an extent that is hard to fathom abroad. Pepe Escobar: Is Brazil the New United States?
Her armored foot finally rattled the lockset loose. Sparks
It was Christmas Day the following day and as she looked through the carriage window, she could only see a desolate blackness, the fields flying by as the train puffed and rattled towards home.
Gunfire rattled against his pectoral shields, and he staggered backwards from the blast.
Dan banged on her door and rattled the handle.
Germany was dominating a dejected Norway and almost went up 4-0 in the 78th minute when Prinz, with yet another cutback from the right, found Bajramaj, whose firm shot rattled the crossbar. Germany blanks Norway, will face U.S.-Brazil winner
Sunderland, in fact, rattled the woodwork twice in the first half. Times, Sunday Times
This den -- he spoke of it as his 'scriptorium' -- had a window looking out upon an elevated railway, along which the trains of the London, Chatham, and Dover line banged and rattled all day long. Shining Ferry
The door then rattled and I heard my wife's voice. The Sun
He swore in Spanish, another indication that he was rattled.
He swore in Spanish, another indication that he was rattled.
Who's rattled his cage?
Nearly scored with a header which rattled the bar. The Sun
He listened in silence as Niccolini rattled on, emphasizing his remarks with one hand and steering with the other.
She rattled through a translation from Virgil's Aeneid.
The truck jolted and rattled over the rough ground.
Think uv a feller, when he feels like takin 'a scalp, comin' out before the hull army an 'beatin' a big brass shield till it rattled like a tin pan, an 'then, when he got 'em all to lookin' an 'listenin', hollerin 'at the top uv his voice,' I'm A-Killus, Defyer uv the The Forest Runners A Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kentucky
Again an anonymous pair of guards sat and watched me as the carriage bounced and rattled its way through the streets.
If the Americans have not adopted a 'positive policy' vis-à-vis Pakistan since inception, what else Pakistan has in fact been rattled by the Obama Administration's new plans, to 'rejig' the American policy towards Pakistan and Afghanistan, and the region as a whole. Asian Tribune
• Newcastle United defences rattled by Swede's muscle• Owen Coyle 'unfazed' by talks with striker over contract Johan Elmander becomes Bolton Wanderers' most dangerous man
Their companions nodded sagely in agreement as they prattled on.
He rattled the first two fences and his race was as good as done. The Sun
She rattled through her set, the highlight being the sweary 212. The Sun
I prattled on a bit, about how clear and cold that lake was, and how the children slept in the boathouse and watched the ducks until it grew dark; how entire families used to canoe to the country club for dinner, dressed in black tie and bare feet. The Bird House
In this small Moslem cabaret I think there was nobody more opulent than a small shopkeeper, but the performers numbered a male gypsy who sang and played the gusla, a very beautiful Serbian singer, a still more beautiful gypsy girl who sang and danced, and this danseuse de ventre, who was called Astral When Astra came round and rattled the plate at our table I found she was a Salonica Jewess, member of another colony of refugees from Ferdinand and Isabella who still speak Spanish, and I asked her to come and see me the next day at my hotel and give me a lesson in the danse de ventre. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part IV
‘Not a problem,’ he gabbles, so rattled he's not noticed that the important fields are filled out in pencil.
Goodwin was rattled by criticism that the £2.9bn profit was flattered by dealing revenues, pointing out that a large chunk of income growth was organic.
Clearly rattled, Miller bricked the second, the game went to overtime and the Clippers lost.
There was no need of this caution, for the elder Sedley himself began immediately to speak of the event, and prattled about it, and wept over it plenteously.
The smaller stones soon rattled, and without considering that we had again an interval of cessation before us, and only too much rejoiced to have outstood the danger, we rushed down and reached the foot of the hill together with the drizzling ashes, which pretty thickly covered our heads and shoulders .... Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two
Clearly rattled, Liverpool had three players spoken to by the referee but none carded.
The girls had never known lock picking to be such a dangerously loud task before, as Loki's attempts rattled the tumblers of the lock so much, someone in a surrounding house could hear it from an open door or window.
An ox cart rattled along the stony road.
The automatic writing prattled on like this at length, interrupted by neither full stop nor comma and driven by a rhyme scheme that might politely be described as random but which did not seem especially Japanese in origin.
The mules geed up nicely; the gig rattled down the Valley of Murcia in which the Circus Maximus lay, and left the city through the Capena Gate. The First Man in Rome
The child rattled off the poem he had learnt.
The machine - gun rattled away.
Jack's presence rattled Wilson, reminding him of Henry as a little boy showing Jack how to work the old cash register.
Only two other tables were occupied: at the one two men and a woman played _manille_, on the other a pair of players rattled dominoes, Madame Boin, sunk into her rolls of fat, drowsed on her throne behind the counter. The Belovéd Vagabond
The cart rattled along the stony road.
The teacher rattled out a story and left the classroom.
I rattled through the list of the students' names.
It turned out that there was a short-circuit when a bolt rattled free and connected with the carbon of the boat.
The train passed through bright sunlit gardens and dark tunnels as it rattled over the tracks, stopping every once in a while and blowing its long low whistle.
The pad began to curvet as the post horses rattled behind, and the Parson had only an indistinct vision of a human face supplanting these human legs. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851
There was no space for dwellers in these shadowed lanes to rush from their houses before our car, when warned by the “choof, choof” of the motor as we rattled over the “agony stones,” that something extraordinary was coming; but mothers shrieked for their offspring, while young girls hailed their friends to the free show; and men, women, and children jostled each other good-naturedly in every window and door as we approached, pouring out in our wake, though seemingly half afraid even then that the dragon might take to charging back upon them. The Car of Destiny
He danced the Lancashire clog-hornpipe; he rattled out puns and conundrums; yet did he contrive to infuse into all this mummery and buffoonery, into this salmagundi of the incongruous and the The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
It prattled sweet ideals and dear moralities, rubbed its eyes not once, nor ceased one whit in its greediness, and smashed down in a failure as tremendous only as was the opportunity it had ignored. Revolution
Returning quickly and wiping his mouth, he handed Brownlegg a canned drink and a plastic pot, which rattled.
Refusing to be rattled by their losses, however, Oxford responded with a goal and a point from the irrepressible Brendan McGurk.
They hit one scarp particularly hard and Rex was convinced they'd blown a tire, but the truck rattled on, undeterred. MINUTES TO BURN
He rattled to 57 before miscuing a pull. Times, Sunday Times
Many smaller tremors had rattled the area in the months before the quake, which destroyed much of the historic centre of the city. Times, Sunday Times
The cart rattled, and she had been jostled unmercifully.
The wind blew hard.The doors and windows rattled all night.
They whirred, clicked, chirred and rattled till she dumped the whole teeming mass of them on the bed.
The net was asking to be rattled but Amond choose to dink the ball over the bar and provide the point that ensured his side's survival.
He supposed thoughts, like shoes, were something you either rattled about in, or grew out of.
There were no windows inside the carriage, so Primrose's leader had to sit in silence as the carriage rattled towards Graveyard.
My lord was smiling, so the auctioneer prattled on, and the deformed creature upon the catasta wound his ill-shapen body into every kind of contortion, grinning from ear to ear, displaying the malformation of his spine, and the hideousness of his long hairy arms, whilst he uttered weird cries that were supposed to imitate those of wild animals in the forest. "Unto Caesar"
The steam pipes rattled suddenly, and Franklin uttered a shriek and jumped with fright.
Perhaps those comments will help steady the nerves of many Americans apparently rattled by an e-mail that is circulating nationwide.
A roll of thunder rattled the windowpane above his head, but not loudly enough to wake him. DO NO HARM
I won't even delve into the confusion between solitude and the ‘modern malaise’ of feeling lonely, which I've prattled on about before.
The goombay beat time, and the dancers rattled or tinkled the woody seed-cases of the sand-box tree set on long handles and with each of their lobes painted a separate vivid color; rattles of basketwork; and calabashes filled with pebbles and shells. The Flower of the Chapdelaines
Anamika, who tied for fifth in her debut last year, kept both hands behind her back as she rattled off "exacerbate" and "foggara. ABC News: Top Stories
My everlasting, and most fearful, memory of the war was being woken by an thundering noise which shook and rattled the windows of my bedroom.
Hicks claimed a century of his own to go 4-2 ahead, but O'Sullivan rattled off his second ton to end the first session level at 4-4.
They rattled through the industrial outskirts of the capital, past refinery tanks and banana trees — and then, for no good reason, the train coasted to a stop. The 12:39 to Matanzas
It was true that they prattled sweet little ideals and dear little moralities, but in spite of their prattle the dominant key of the life they lived was materialistic. Chapter 5: The Philomaths
City could hardly hear themselves think in the electric atmosphere and were clearly rattled. The Sun
Lou prattled on about various trivialities till I wanted to scream.
As my bus slowly rattled and groaned its way out of La Paz for the long journey south, I shuddered at what I'd let myself in for.
The door then rattled and I heard my wife's voice. The Sun
Glasses and milk bottles rattled on the counter.
Judging form the light, it was about mid afternoon when the door at the end of the hall rattled open and a man came walking up the corridor, heels clicking against concrete.
His falchion rattled against his side as he ran, still un-drawn.
A train of artillery rattled past the knot of staff, on its way to higher ground. Man of Honour
When the train rattled into the next station, an inspector ran into the carriage and tried to settle the bitter argument.
He rattled off the list of headline-worthy cases he was being forced to abandon.
A cart full of milk - bottles rattled past.
The Russians had rattled sabers throughout 1983, trying to stop NATO's theater missile deployment.
At least he rattled his glass with a spoon and, when all had broken off their preprandial conversations and looked up from their cocktails, Mario made his introduction. Banquets of the Black Widowers
Maybe he was rattled by Lorelai's sudden possible job offer?
The victory was no more than Ireland deserved, as they had also twice rattled the woodwork. The Sun
It's a dance show that is very unique - it's open to all ages, so we say from 6 to 106, Paula prattled on perkily. Paula Abdul and David Letterman talk 'Idol,' new dance show
If he hadn't been so rattled by the collision/confrontation, it might have oc-curred to him that in leaving by the way he'd entered he damned himself more thoroughly than he could have with any number of words. The Howling Stones
It's hard to credit that trains once rattled under the sheer limestone cliffs and hanging woods where cyclists, walkers and riders now enjoy themselves. Times, Sunday Times
In many ways, they were pioneer days, when the old order was having its cage rattled from across the Atlantic and the University of California at Davis, around 70 miles northeast of San Francisco, began to forge an international reputation for viticulture and oenology. California Dreamin'
The departure of this tusk is really a great relief to me, for it had come down from its socket till I looked like one of the three fabled cabirii of Samothrace, who had got and kept possession of the solitary tooth they owned amongst them, and it shook and rattled in my mouth, so that I felt as if I was talking to a castanet accompaniment. Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
A few aid agencies, charter airlines and the national carrier rattled around the dimly lit concourse.
The sun seemed remote and heatless, the explosions rattled his teeth together, he felt the earth vibrations in his boots. Do you ever read writing?
The vehicle rattled over a bridge, and Brian caught a glimpse of dark trees hunched protectively over black water.
The Cameroon striker got the first goal after just four minutes with a thumping header that rattled the bottom of the crossbar before landing in the net. The Sun
Others yelled support or argued nonchalantly in groups while bursts of automatic gunfire rattled unnoticed from the speakers. The Crossing-Place
But I say, lass," she rattled on, "have you heard what that great gammerstang of a Mother Garth has been telling 'Becca Rudd about The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance
The train rattled on and on towards doom as my backside cramped itself on the seat.
And I can only stay home and knit, like a poky old woman! 'And Jo shook the blue army sock till the needles rattled like castanets, and her ball bounded across the room.
After one win, I remember a man being prevented from euphorically throwing himself off the train as it rattled towards the Border.
The steam pipes rattled suddenly, and Franklin uttered a shriek and jumped with fright.
Hailstones rattled on the tin roof.

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