rat
Example Sentences
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China’s industrial rat race helped power the country’s economic miracle.
This little creature is much cuter than the rats that plague the Ranch’s compost piles.
From Literature
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“You don’t really expect me to rat them out, do you?”
From Literature
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The new novel from the author of ‘My Absolute Darling,’ is a riveting read featuring two desert rat teens climbing to escape the precarity of the American Dream.
From Los Angeles Times
New York has a whole new rat problem.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.