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."

  • They cock their trapezoidal dice heads and emit a series of clicks; then their heads pop back with a conclusive rattle.

  • First there is of course the conductor Simon Rattle and perhaps less well known is the old established firm of Cape Town undertakers by the name of Human & Pitt Ltd.

  • It is "virtually guaranteed to rattle the most jaded of cages" (John Anderson, the Los Angeles Times ). One cage is left unrattled, though: Stephen Holden of the New York Times delivers an uncharacteristically nasty write-up, calling it "gaggingly mawkish supernatural kitsch" that is "a garish hybrid of Simon Birch and What Dreams May Come ." (Click here to visit the official site.)

  • At issue in this epic struggle were questions of First Amendment rights and the specter of prior restraint, making this battle call to mind nothing so much as the confrontation between Tweedledee and Tweedledum over ownership of a rattle.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast