Example sentences for: patter

How can you use “patter” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In form, it's a showbizzy patter song, but because of its lightning tempo (which makes the words barely intelligible) and the steady repetition of "bitch" on the downbeat, it has the primal force of an incantation:

  • All the while, they keep up a patter about how terrible a neighbor the casino industry is and how superficial Las Vegas' prosperity is.

  • Through the rest we get Lewis' sensitive transcriptions of "a booming hick drawl," culminating in a contrast to Jim Barksdale, who, we are told, has escaped hickdom--he "retains only enough of the piney woods patter to offer a passing imitation of a good ol' boy when he needs to."

  • .. methor baruthar, eseluth with the obvious themes per-, bar-, -uth, -uthar, -ethor , setting the tone in this ancient version of a magical patter song or jazz scat.

  • But the largest group of words that characterise the early period are those that clearly formed part of a language used for the limited communication that took place between the two peoples: cobra head, mundowie foot, bogie to bathe or a bathing place, crammer to steal, nangry to sleep, patter to eat, budgeree good, cabon big, cooler angry, jerron afraid, narangy little, muny very, baal a negative, and cooee a call or to call.


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