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Meanings of rat-a-tat-tat in English
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Examples for "rat-tat"
Examples for "rat-tat"
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At the rat-tat-tat of the knocker her heart flew into her mouth.
2
The voices broke off, and a rat-tat sounded on the front door.
3
A thundering rat-tat-tat at the hall door brought Jones to his feet.
4
Here Mrs. Butler souded a loud rat-tat on the Bells' hall door.
5
In the same moment there sounded again a rat-tat at the outer door.
1
The sound, not unlike the rat-a-tat-tat of parade drums, heralded Hickock's arrival.
2
I drummed my fingers rat-a-tat-tat on the wagon wheel place mat.
3
The B-movie genre's rat-a-tat dialogue sounded like sure box office.
4
And not just because of the at-first-impenetrable, hard-boiled, rat-a-tat dialogue and dizzying plot twists.
5
To a child's ears the rat-a-tat of laminated linen against spokes was engine noise.
Usage of rat-a-tat-tat in English
1
The sound, not unlike the rat-a-tat-tat of parade drums, heralded Hickock's arrival.
2
I drummed my fingers rat-a-tat-tat on the wagon wheel place mat.
3
The crack of Kalashnikov fire and the rat-a-tat-tat of a machine gun fill the air.
4
They all need to supply the crackling rat-a-tat-tat dialogue you might find in a Capote novel.
5
Concentration on what is being said is further stymied by the rat-a-tat-tat delivery of the lines.
6
The rat-a-tat-tat of the drums calls them forward.
7
Air raid sirens began howling, then the litany of rat-a-tat-tat from anti-aircraft artillery for half an hour.
8
Juventus were about to be pierced by the rat-a-tat-tat of three more goals in breathtakingly quick succession.
9
Three gasping coughs in rapid succession, rat-a-tat-tat.
10
Merrill Grant will lead them to the chuppah, at the music cue of a rat-a-tat-tat on the drums.
11
It was not quite a samba beat: more rat-a-tat-tat, not dissimilar to the rhythm of his uncomplicated shot-making.
12
Murray. It was not quite a samba beat: more rat-a-tat-tat, not dissimilar to the rhythm of his uncomplicated shot-making.
13
At the heart of "Better Off Ted's" comedic genius is its rat-a-tat-tat dialogue that sounds real, not forced.
14
The moment she recognized her visitor, she opened the door to him, her heart doing a crazy little rat-a-tat-tat number.
15
In the middle of January there is a quiet tap on the door of my privy chamber, a little rat-a-tat-tat that is George's knock.
16
His arms and his fists were like those old ack-ack guns, rat-a-tat-tat, slamming back and forth, blood flying everywheres, and he just kept charging.