patter
Example Sentences
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During his $45 two-hour tours that embark from a dock at Schooner Landing, Holmes offers a steady patter of oyster-related wisecracks, as his partner, Olga Oros, shucks and hands out shellfish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Since Deutch’s first lead role in the undervalued 2014 “Twilight” piggybacker “Vampire Academy,” her screen presence has been 15-going-on-45: a dimpled ingenue with the confident patter of a Preston Sturges heroine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
But for Griffin, this New Age Page-A-Day calendar patter sounds “like poetry.”
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026
Above the patter of rain cascading through the jungle canopy comes the haunting call of a pileated gibbon singing to fend off intruders in Cambodia's Cardamom Mountains.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
She keeps a steady patter through the open window, catching me up on her life since we last talked.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
Vocabulary lists containing patter
The Watsons Go to Birmingham
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Not Your Father's Word List: Pater, Patr
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"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury
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