rat-a-tat

Example Sentences

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“People were amazed. They could see these top stars singing and dancing. They could hear the rat-a-tat of the guns. And sound also made for a tremendous amount of creativity in movie making.”

From The Wall Street Journal

You could hear her before you could see her: a throaty, rat-a-tat laugh — ha-ha-ha-ha — drifting through the cool canyon air.

From Los Angeles Times

Each show reflects in its own way the influence of a gritty genre that situated world-weary protagonists in cold, uncaring worlds armed only with their wits, fists, guns and rat-a-tat dialogue.

From Los Angeles Times

The film, in its first minutes, prefers the latter, opening with a rat-a-tat montage of her many successes: author, linguist, Phi Beta Kappa scholar.

From New York Times

As four Northwest Tap Connection dancers struck the metal plates of their shoes against the wooden podium, twisting, jumping and toe-toe-heel-heel-ing in ever-changing formations, they added layers of rat-a-tat to the rhythmic drum track.

From Seattle Times