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 • Feb. 15, 2026

Inspired by US vocal harmony groups such as En Vogue and SWV, Mis-Teeq cleverly incorporated garage and hip-hop to their sound, with Alesha Dixon's rat-a-tat MC'ing setting them apart from more their pop rivals.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025

He and editor Andy Jurgensen keep the tenor strictly rat-a-tat, so his riskiest choice is that he trusts we’ll feel awful about these scapegoats even without close-ups of teary faces behind bars.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2025

By longstanding, bipartisan tradition, decades of White House press secretaries have handed down a cheeky symbol of their job fielding rat-a-tat inquiries from feisty reporters: a flak jacket.

From New York Times • May 20, 2022

The man pulled drumsticks from his vest pocket and gave a practice rat-a-tat run before readjusting some buckets.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman