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Patter
"Patter" in a Sentence (13 examples)
The pitter patter of the rain on the roof kept me from falling asleep.
The young couple climbed into the vehicle not long before the first raindrops began to patter on the windscreen.
I could hear the patter of mice running about in the dark.
The patter of feet, and clatter of strap and swivel, seemed to swell into a bewildering din, but they were almost upon the fielato offices, where the carretera entered the town, before a rifle flashed.
The bullets pattered into the log-cabin walls.
The stealing shower […] 'Tis scarce to patter heard.
1819 (published in 1835) Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay Patter the water about the boat.
This particularly rapid, unintelligible patter isn't generally heard, and if it is it doesn't matter.
Dad, I want to be a jock. All a jock needs is some hep patter and a real gone image. Now, they just don't teach that jazz in college.
“Did you say the bodies are getting mixed together with the toxic waste?” [sigh] “Now I got to look at the brochure. Yeah, that's what it says.” “By the way, you're really gonna have to work on your patter a little bit.”
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As a young man he [Beppe Grillo] performed with a guitar in local bars, but fans preferred his pre-show patter, and he evolved into a successful stand-up comedian.
He showed a little of the pride of art in describing the management of his business, but he would not hear that he “pattered:” he talked to his customers, he declared, as any draper, who knew his business well, might talk to his.
I used to hate head patters, and I have realized that all children dislike being patted on the head.
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