rat-a-tat

Example Sentences

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Even though the admission rushes out in Wall’s normal rat-a-tat cadence, it makes the interviewer, Donal Ware, sit back and mouth a single word that speaks for all of us: “Wow.”

From Washington Post

But while rat-a-tat and packed in a manner to be expected from someone once known as “Sally Soundbite,” Conway’s own bid at recording history, written with a book doctor, is spotty and selective.

From New York Times

We didn’t grow up with this, yet we allowed this rat-a-tat, consistent interaction with gun violence to be part of our children’s lives.

From Washington Post

His buddies knew his talents for table-to-table rat-a-tat, and urged him to make a tape.

From New York Times

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