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Meanings of patter in English
Synonyms
Examples for "spit"
Examples for "spit"
1
Sarge fit, although he didn't look capable of any spit-flecked rants today.
2
New figures also show gardaí are continuing to use spit-hoods on suspects.
3
Our ancestors used not to chew and spit it everywhere unlike today.
4
About 40 acres have been lost from the spit as a result.
5
A single spit was heard; bodies crashed to a floor somewhere below.
1
Wash the shelves with salt and water; sprinkle salt in their paths.
2
Place the mackerel in a baking-dish; sprinkle with pepper and chopped parsley.
3
Then beat in the yolks of two eggs, sprinkle in 3 ozs.
4
Coat the outside with olive oil and sprinkle with coarse sea salt.
5
Top with Cool Whip Free and then sprinkle chocolate chips on top.
1
And shape is one of the things we consider in spatter-pattern analysis.
2
Neill leaped back in a spatter of bullets that rained round him.
3
Three loud reports and then the touf-touf, spatter-dash-spatter-dash of a motor bicycle.
4
Several showed blood spatter, including above the bed in the main bedroom.
5
Blaine anticipated them with a spatter of bullets from their own weapon.
1
Aside from the gentle pitter-patter of rainfall, the silence is almost palpable.
2
I'd signed up for a happy family and the pitter-patter of tiny feet.
3
Her heart did a pitter-patter in her chest at the sight of him.
4
She could still hear the rain playing pitter-patter against the window.
5
Then, with a swift pitter-patter, she ran back to the house.
Usage of patter in English
1
But I seem to know the general root idea of this patter.
2
He tore in the direction whence came the patter of retreating foot-steps.
3
The noise had always been there, a background hiss-patter-splash of falling water.
4
Soon the rain began to patter on the leaves of the brake.
5
Their patter sounded on the leaves a minute or two; then ceased.
6
Pit patter: Passion Pit will release their second album, Gossamer, this summer.
7
When the rain began, it did not fall in a gentle patter.
8
And now the patter of running feet sounded from the pavement below.
9
The iron sides of the truck tanged with a patter of bullets.
10
Through the patter of the rain, he heard a thin voice say:
11
From without came the cheerful patter of melting snow upon the sill.
12
The air, except for the patter of the rain, was absolutely still.
13
In moments, she can hear the patter of their feet following her.
14
She heard the light patter of bare feet running to the well.
15
Interested driver-pilots may want to brush up on their radio patter now.
16
Not the drumlike pounding of charging rescue personnel: a fast, gliding patter.
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Patter through the time
Patter across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common