Example sentences for: rattle

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

  • ..is being dismantled, I think there is a price to pay," should be translated as warning Congress that "eating into the [budget] surplus with either tax cuts or spending increases could rattle investors."

  • In the three hours following Taiwan's mainshock, for example, there were only seven quakes that would have done more than lightly rattle dishes.

  • The bridge trembles underneath your feet, and the lamp-posts rattle as the wind whistles through swooping cables.

  • If a drug dealer were to rattle off lists of narcotics words, the English speaker would be surprised at all the familiar sounds: California, sunshine, gelatina (gelatin), and gelé jelly, for instance, are cryptic nicknames for drugs in general.

  • Got 90-year-old men biting rattle snakes' heads off, and shooting guns.


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