{"loaderData":{"0":null,"0-3":[{"type":"fetchPageData/fulfilled","payload":{"_id":"home-legacy","story":{"created_at":"2023-07-04T15:14:18.526Z","published_at":"2024-05-02T04:05:00.000Z","content":{"heroModule":[{"cta":[{"url":"https://www.thesaurus.com/e/writing/how-to-write-a-scary-story-tips-to-haunt-your-reader/","text":"Read more.","target":"_self"}],"article":{"name":"How to Write a Scary Story: Tips to Haunt Your Readers","content":{"topicLabel":"Writing tips"}},"imageUrl":"https://assets.dictionary.com/home/featured/hero/how-to-write-a-scary-story-tips-to-haunt-your-reader-20251006.png","description":"Interested in crafting the next big thriller or a spooky short story? Here are some tips to get started.","subjectLabel":"Today"}],"quizModule":[{"cta":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/learn/quizzes","text":"Go to all quizzes","target":"_self"}],"image":"https://assets.dictionary.com/home/daily-quiz.png","articleLink":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/games/quizzes/keep-it-short-an-abbreviations-quiz","text":"Take the full quiz.","target":"_self"}],"subjectLabel":"Quiz","wordpressSlug":"keep-it-short-an-abbreviations-quiz","questionNumber":"1"}],"xotdModule":[],"gamesModule":[{"gamesList":[{"name":"Daily Crossword","created_at":"2023-07-04T15:24:23.318Z","published_at":"2024-02-07T05:05:00.000Z","id":336141299,"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/e/crossword/","text":"Daily Crossword","target":"_self"}],"image":{"id":10215805,"alt":"","name":"","focus":"","title":"","source":"","filename":"https://assets.dictionary.com/home/daily-crossword.png","copyright":"","fieldtype":"asset","meta_data":{},"is_external_url":false},"subscriberLink":""},"slug":"daily-crossword","full_slug":"games/daily-crossword","sort_by_date":null,"position":0,"tag_list":[],"is_startpage":false,"parent_id":336140985,"meta_data":null,"group_id":"013f4974-3fad-4e2b-8aa2-c573ef31f263","first_published_at":"2023-07-04T15:32:55.972Z","release_id":null,"lang":"default","path":null,"alternates":[],"default_full_slug":null,"translated_slugs":null,"_stopResolving":true},{"name":"Hurdle","created_at":"2023-07-07T20:42:46.109Z","published_at":"2024-02-06T05:05:00.000Z","id":337835996,"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://play.dictionary.com/games/todays-hurdle","text":"Hurdle","target":"_self"}],"image":{"id":10215808,"alt":"","name":"","focus":"","title":"","source":"","filename":"https://assets.dictionary.com/home/hurdle.png","copyright":"","fieldtype":"asset","meta_data":{},"is_external_url":false},"subscriberLink":"https://www.dictionary.com/games/hurdle"},"slug":"hurdle","full_slug":"games/hurdle","sort_by_date":null,"position":-30,"tag_list":[],"is_startpage":false,"parent_id":336140985,"meta_data":null,"group_id":"3342f4e9-9403-4609-a956-7cd5eab50dc9","first_published_at":"2023-07-10T17:24:55.648Z","release_id":null,"lang":"default","path":null,"alternates":[],"default_full_slug":null,"translated_slugs":null,"_stopResolving":true},{"name":"Word Puzzle","created_at":"2023-07-04T15:31:56.964Z","published_at":"2023-07-10T17:24:59.422Z","id":336150578,"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/games/word-puzzle","text":"Word Puzzle","target":"_self"}],"image":{"id":10215807,"alt":"","name":"","focus":"","title":"","source":"","filename":"https://assets.dictionary.com/home/word-puzzle.png","copyright":"","fieldtype":"asset","meta_data":{},"is_external_url":false}},"slug":"word-puzzle","full_slug":"games/word-puzzle","sort_by_date":null,"position":-20,"tag_list":[],"is_startpage":false,"parent_id":336140985,"meta_data":null,"group_id":"71792320-7229-4ab6-8558-b3af16f5e557","first_published_at":"2023-07-04T15:32:43.933Z","release_id":null,"lang":"default","path":null,"alternates":[],"default_full_slug":null,"translated_slugs":null,"_stopResolving":true},{"name":"Word Wipe","created_at":"2023-07-04T15:28:02.623Z","published_at":"2024-02-06T05:05:00.000Z","id":336141320,"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://play.dictionary.com/games/word-wipe","text":"Word Wipe","target":"_self"}],"image":{"id":10215806,"alt":"","name":"","focus":"","title":"","source":"","filename":"https://assets.dictionary.com/home/word-wipe.png","copyright":"","fieldtype":"asset","meta_data":{},"is_external_url":false},"subscriberLink":"https://www.dictionary.com/games/word-wipe"},"slug":"word-wipe","full_slug":"games/word-wipe","sort_by_date":null,"position":-10,"tag_list":[],"is_startpage":false,"parent_id":336140985,"meta_data":null,"group_id":"3789fc63-90b3-4407-99f4-fa263d1a3e39","first_published_at":"2023-07-04T15:32:50.947Z","release_id":null,"lang":"default","path":null,"alternates":[],"default_full_slug":null,"translated_slugs":null,"_stopResolving":true}],"description":"Calling all cruciverbalists! Sharpen your mind with crosswords and word games, or take a brain break with your favorite classic games.","subjectLabel":"Games"}],"commonModule":[],"ribbonModule":[],"trendingModule":[{"articles":[{"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/e/words-for-book-lovers/","text":"Words All Book Lovers Should Add to Their Lingo Library"}]}},{"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/passenger-princess/","text":"Do You Have a \"Passenger Princess\" In Your Car?"}]}},{"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/e/macro-vs-micro-economics/","text":"Macro vs. Micro: the Big (and Small) Difference"}]}},{"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/e/s/cool-words","text":"15 Cool Words to Add to Your Vocabulary"}]}},{"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/e/french-fries-words-around-the-world/","text":"Frites, Chips, and More: French Fries Around the World"}]}}],"subjectLabel":"Trending"}],"newsletterModule":[{"title":"Salutations, logophile!","imageUrl":"https://assets.dictionary.com/home/newsletter.png","description":"Sign up to get everything a word lover could want: word origins, fun facts, and the latest language trends.","subjectLabel":"Newsletter"}],"largeRibbonModule":[],"recirculationModule":[{"articles":[{"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/e/news-from-october-4-october-10-2025/","text":"This Week in Words: News from October 4–October 10, 2025"}],"topicLabel":"This Week in Words 🌎"}},{"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/e/emoji/face-in-clouds-emoji/","text":"How Are You Using the Face in Clouds Emoji 😶‍🌫️?"}],"topicLabel":"Emoji IRL"}},{"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://www.thesaurus.com/e/grammar/whycapitali/","text":"Why Do We Capitalize the Pronoun \"I\"?"}],"topicLabel":"Writing"}}],"subjectLabel":"Featured"}]},"slug":"shared-homepage","full_slug":"homepages/shared-homepage","sort_by_date":null,"position":0,"tag_list":[],"is_startpage":false,"parent_id":336140983,"meta_data":null,"group_id":"c7ed375b-9129-448c-aeec-9f52e3fef270","first_published_at":"2023-07-04T18:23:43.845Z","release_id":null,"lang":"default","path":null,"alternates":[],"default_full_slug":null,"translated_slugs":null}},"meta":{"requestId":"pqS7uK9YRUw6qeCSTA_sF","requestStatus":"fulfilled"}},{"type":"luna/fetchExampleSentences/fulfilled","payload":{"data":{"nlp":[{"id":"3513910-90","sentence":"For my preceptor, similarly, those wet rales were as recognizable as a familiar jingle.","source":{"sourceName":"The New Yorker","publicationDate":"2017-03-27T04:00:00.000Z","publication_date":"2017-03-27T04:00:00.000Z","url":"http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/03/ai-versus-md","abbreviation":"nlp","author":"Siddhartha Mukherjee","title":"A.I. Versus M.D."},"offsets":[39,44]},{"id":"1688675-3857","sentence":"I’ve always had this rale—never ask anybody in that kind of situation; they will tell you what they want you to know.","source":{"sourceName":"Literature","publicationDate":"1965-01-01T00:00:00.000Z","publication_date":"1965-01-01T00:00:00.000Z","url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00193RJEM","abbreviation":"nlp","author":"Alex Malcolm X;Hailey","title":"The Autobiography of Malcolm X"},"offsets":[21,25]},{"id":"1629084-9775","sentence":"\"The regent rales until the king is of age.\"","source":{"sourceName":"Literature","publicationDate":"1998-11-16T00:00:00.000Z","publication_date":"1998-11-16T00:00:00.000Z","url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008YF2JH0","abbreviation":"nlp","author":"George R.R. Martin","title":"A Clash of Kings"},"offsets":[12,17]},{"id":"1613219-154","sentence":"Many of them were delicious in the rale; one of them was the embodiment of every womanly grace and charm.","source":{"sourceName":"Literature","publicationDate":"1899-01-01T00:00:00.000Z","publication_date":"1899-01-01T00:00:00.000Z","url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/1494831937","abbreviation":"nlp","author":"Kate Chopin","title":"The Awakening"},"offsets":[35,39]},{"id":"903464-1951","sentence":"It must be gone through,\" said Flan Sucker,—\"because them sentiments is the rale Dimmocracy, and we want to hear them.","source":{"sourceName":"Project Gutenberg","publicationDate":"2012-03-26T02:00:29.820Z","publication_date":"2012-03-26T02:00:29.820Z","url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39245","abbreviation":"nlp","author":"Kennedy, John Pendleton","title":"Quodlibet"},"offsets":[76,80]}],"tdb":[],"gbg":[]}},"meta":{"arg":{"word":"rale"},"requestId":"tvzO_lK0xLBuTwqxhYKS7","requestStatus":"fulfilled"}},{"type":"dcomWeb/fetchThesaurusRelatedEntries/fulfilled","payload":{"relatedEntries":[{"headword":"death rattle","partOfSpeech":"noun","shortDefinition":"sound made while dying","slug":"death-rattle","synonyms":[{"headword":"death groan","slug":"death-groan"},{"headword":"rale","slug":"rale"}]}],"slug":"rale"},"meta":{"arg":"rale","requestId":"EPTEB0brxWmTucEeJJMaY","requestStatus":"fulfilled"}},{"type":"dcomWeb/fetchThesaurusEntry/fulfilled","payload":[{"entries":[{"createDate":"2021-05-09T14:53:56Z","headword":{"normalizedForm":"rale","standardForm":"rale"},"id":"6097f78400000000cc00e880","lang":"en","modifyDate":"2021-05-09T14:53:56Z","ngrams":{"allLetters":true,"forward":"rale","groups":["a","e","l","r"],"numLetters":4,"reverse":"elar","subwordTokens":["rale","ale","le","e"]},"normalizedLetter":"r","ordinal":1,"partOfSpeechBlocks":[{"definitions":[{"crossReferences":[{"targetEntry":{"headword":"death rattle","id":"6097fb720000000352009626","slug":"death-rattle"},"targetEntryId":"6097fb72000000035200962b","type":"as-in"}],"id":"6097f78400000000cc00e885","ordinal":1,"shortText":"sound made while dying","source":"random-house","synonyms":[{"entry":{"headword":"death groan","id":"6097fb720000000352009463","slug":"death-groan"},"similarity":10}]}],"id":"6097f784bb1f88f7c11dd507","ordinal":1,"partOfSpeech":"noun"}],"pronunciationSets":[{"id":"55680d6900000001c8006641","lang":"en","ordinal":1,"pronunciations":[{"audio":{"flac":"R00/R0042800/R0042800.flac","mpeg":"R00/R0042800/R0042800.mp3","ogg":"R00/R0042800/R0042800.ogg","wav":"R00/R0042800/R0042800.wav"},"id":"55680d6900000001c8006642","ipa":{"text":"ræl"},"phonetic":{"html":"ral","text":"ral"}},{"id":"55680d6900000001c8006645","ipa":{"text":"rɑl"},"phonetic":{"html":"rahl","text":"rahl"}}],"region":"us"}],"slug":"rale","source":"random-house","subType":"as-in","type":"tcom"}],"type":"tcom"}],"meta":{"arg":"rale","requestId":"lqtbm7MCRPwugQf0m0mw-","requestStatus":"fulfilled"}},{"type":"dcomWeb/fetchDictionaryEntry/fulfilled","payload":[{"entries":[{"createDate":"2010-07-27T12:57:32Z","headword":{"normalizedForm":"rale","standardForm":"rale"},"id":"4c4ed7bc000000031e0016d6","lang":"en","modifyDate":"2010-07-27T12:57:32Z","ngrams":{"allLetters":true,"forward":"rale","groups":["a","e","l","r"],"numLetters":4,"reverse":"elar","subwordTokens":["rale","ale","le","e"]},"normalizedLetter":"r","ordinal":1,"origin":{"source":"collins","text":"C19: from French râle , from râler to breathe with a rattling sound; compare _rail ³","type":"etymology"},"partOfSpeechBlocks":[{"definitions":[{"id":"4c6f0beebbce6b690e8ada9f","ordinal":1,"tags":[{"tag":"Science_and_Technology:Medicine:Pathology","type":"subject-field"}],"text":"med an abnormal coarse crackling sound heard on auscultation of the chest, usually caused by the accumulation of fluid in the lungs"}],"ordinal":1,"partOfSpeech":"noun"}],"pronunciationSets":[{"ordinal":1,"pronunciations":[{"ipa":{"text":"rɑːl"}}]}],"slug":"rale","source":"collins","type":"british"}],"type":"british"},{"entries":[{"createDate":"2015-05-29T06:55:37Z","headword":{"normalizedForm":"rale","standardForm":"rale","syllabicForm":"rale"},"id":"55680d6900000001c800663d","lang":"en","modifyDate":"2015-05-29T06:55:37Z","ngrams":{"allLetters":true,"forward":"rale","groups":["a","e","l","r"],"numLetters":4,"reverse":"elar","subwordTokens":["rale","ale","le","e"]},"normalizedLetter":"r","ordinal":1,"origin":{"id":"55680d6900000001c8006653","source":"dcom","text":"1820–30; < French râle, derivative of râler to make a rattling sound in the throat; rail ³","type":"origin"},"partOfSpeechBlocks":[{"definitions":[{"id":"55680d6900000001c800664e","ordinal":1,"source":"random-house","tags":[{"tag":"Pathology","type":"category"}],"text":"an abnormal crackling or rattling sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by disease or congestion of the lungs."}],"id":"55680d6900000001c8006649","label":"Pathology.","ordinal":1,"partOfSpeech":"noun","tags":[{"tag":"Pathology","type":"subject-category"}]}],"pronunciationSets":[{"id":"55680d6900000001c8006641","lang":"en","ordinal":1,"pronunciations":[{"audio":{"flac":"R00/R0042800/R0042800.flac","mpeg":"R00/R0042800/R0042800.mp3","ogg":"R00/R0042800/R0042800.ogg","wav":"R00/R0042800/R0042800.wav"},"id":"55680d6900000001c8006642","ipa":{"text":"ræl"},"phonetic":{"html":"ral","text":"ral"}},{"id":"55680d6900000001c8006645","ipa":{"text":"rɑl"},"phonetic":{"html":"rahl","text":"rahl"}}],"region":"us"}],"slug":"rale","source":"dcom","type":"dcom"}],"type":"dcom"}],"meta":{"arg":"rale","requestId":"lUjbbomfUhWnYmB0HDqGF","requestStatus":"fulfilled"}},{"type":"fetchSpellSuggestions/fulfilled","payload":{"data":{"lunaWithSlug":[{"displayForm":"rale","slug":"rale"},{"displayForm":"race","slug":"race"},{"displayForm":"race","slug":"race"},{"displayForm":"race","slug":"race"},{"displayForm":"race","slug":"race"},{"displayForm":"race","slug":"race"},{"displayForm":"race","slug":"race"},{"displayForm":"race","slug":"race"},{"displayForm":"race","slug":"race"},{"displayForm":"rage","slug":"rage"},{"displayForm":"rage","slug":"rage"}],"tunaWithSlug":[{"displayForm":"rale","slug":"rale"},{"displayForm":"orale","slug":"orale"},{"displayForm":"ale","slug":"ale"},{"displayForm":"bale","slug":"bale"},{"displayForm":"dale","slug":"dale"},{"displayForm":"gale","slug":"gale"},{"displayForm":"hale","slug":"hale"},{"displayForm":"kale","slug":"kale"},{"displayForm":"male","slug":"male"},{"displayForm":"pale","slug":"pale"},{"displayForm":"race","slug":"race"}]}},"meta":{"arg":{"word":"rale"},"requestId":"XdaF4szTqCcBpw5zVi8LQ","requestStatus":"fulfilled"}}]},"actionData":null,"errors":null}

rale

Example Sentences

Related Words