Example sentences for: rattle

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

  • "Hiss, Chirp, Rattle, Click!"

  • 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.

  • In one, the teen-age Stevens writes a dead-on Stevensian description of a motley village band--"the piping of flamboyant flutes, the wriggling of shrieking fifes with rasping dagger-voices, the sighing of bass-viols, drums that beat and rattle, the crescendo of cracked trombones."

  • Now's the time therefore, he writes, to "really rattle his cage."

  • 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.


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