A series of short sharp taps (as made by strokes on a drum or knocks on a door)
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Examples for "rat-a-tat-tat "
Examples for "rat-a-tat-tat "
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.
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.
1 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.
6 Even at that height I could hear the methodical rat-tat - tat of the machine-guns.
7 There are the dull thuds of explosions and an occasional rat-tat - tat .
8 He was interrupted by a loud rat - tat at the outer door.
9 Kephart went back into the cabin, and the typewriter's rat-tat-tat began.
10 Not a ring, but a hard rat - tat on the hobbit's beautiful green door.
11 But these graceful synths are matched with a relentless chiptunes-style, rat-tat-tat drum beat.
12 The rat-tat-tat of opportunity for some, the final bit of well-worn rope for others.
13 The first sound I heard the next morning was the rat-tat - too of a drum.
14 Again the rat-tat - tat upon the panel, more peremptory than before.
15 On this our guide knocked with a peculiar postman-like rat - tat .
16 Various sounds, transit of shells, bursting of shells, crashing of near-by cannon, and rat-tat - tat - tat !
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