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Meanings of rattling around in English

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Usage of rattling around in English
1
A single man rattling around in a family-sized home -his parents'?
Broken Homes
2
Gigi presented the tambourine with the few pennies rattling around somewhat lonesomely.
John of the Woods
3
Gretchen dropped the box and heard the porcelain pieces inside rattling around.
Goodbye dolly
4
God knew how many little-bitty bullets he had rattling around in him.
I'll never get out of this world alive
5
The tray was still rolling and rattling around on the floor.
The Black Wolf's Breed / A Story of France in the Old World and ...
6
I really don't like the idea of me rattling around inside of you.
Sea of Rust
7
Just the six of us rattling around in these big offices.
From those wonderful folks who gave you pearl harbor: front-line...
8
Our gear was rattling around loose on the collapsed microtent fabric.
The Hyperion Cantos
9
A streetcar came rattling around the corner and missed her by a hair.
The Golem and the Jinni
10
I have enough rattling around in my head without those numbers.
The brush-off: a hair-raising mystery
11
Witchy old woman, rattling around in that big house of hers.
Exposure
12
Each egg is a 2-centimetre-wide ball rattling around an enormous cavern.
BBC
13
That question was rattling around in my mind last weekend.
The Irish Times
14
Fear of corporate surveillance is a topic that has been rattling around for years.
The Irish Times
15
I don't like thinking of you rattling around the house alone on Thanksgiving Day.
Pet Sematary
16
Nate could hear something rattling around inside his chest, like beans in a can.
Apocalypse of the Dead
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common