pitter-patter
Example Sentences
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After greeting students, chasing a football around, "attacking" shoelaces and tights, and exploring parts of the school she has never seen before, the pitter-patter of puppy paws slows down.
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026
A noise jolts you awake, and you hear the pitter-patter of tiny, scurrying feet.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 27, 2023
Miller’s playing was kinetic, especially in Owens’s vivid writing — efficiently obstinate in “Desire,” with a lovely pitter-patter of raindrops in “In time of silver rain.”
From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2023
Obviously modest in quantity, Saturday’s pitter-patter in Washington may also have escaped widespread notice for another reason.
From Washington Post • Apr. 9, 2022
We’re both quiet for a few moments as we walk, the rain making pitter-patter sounds against our umbrellas, and our shoes squeaking on the wet sidewalk.
From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
