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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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