Rattle can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| rattle - make short successive sounds | ||
| rattle - shake and cause to make a rattling noise | ||
Noun |
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| rattle - a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders); "the death rattle" | ||
| rattle - loosely connected horny sections at the end of a rattlesnake's tail | ||
| rattle - a baby's toy that makes percussive noises when shaken |
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| 1. | noun | The death rattle. | |
| 2. | verb | When you talk of the devil you will hear his bones rattle. | |
| 3. | verb | The baby was shaking the rattle. | |
| 4. | verb | The earthquake caused the house to rattle. | |
| 5. | verb | Flies high the cow and low the cattle, a twister does the farmyard rattle. | |
| 6. | verb | He's a little on edge today. I wouldn't rattle his cage if I were you. | |
| 7. | verb | When the train goes through the station, the windows rattle noisily and the whole house shakes. | |
| 8. | verb | The baby was playing with a rattle. | |
| 9. | verb | Tom took the rattle from the baby. | |
| 10. | verb | The piggy bank was stuffed so full that it could no longer rattle, which is the highest state of perfection that a piggy bank can attain. | |
| 11. | verb | The baby is putting the rattle in its mouth. | |
| 12. | verb | I received a rattle as a gift for Purim. | |
| 13. | verb | You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. | |
| 14. | verb | As they passed, a great rock came thundering down with a hoarse rattle which woke the echoes in the silent gorges, and startled the weary horses into a gallop. | |
| 15. | verb | The rattle of our wheels died away as we drove through drifts of rotting vegetation—sad gifts, as it seemed to me, for Nature to throw before the carriage of the returning heir of the Baskervilles. | |
| 16. | verb | Yanni's doorknob began to rattle. |
| Sentence | |
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| noun | |
| The death rattle. |
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| verb | |
| When you talk of the devil you will hear his bones rattle. | |
| The baby was shaking the rattle. | |
| The earthquake caused the house to rattle. | |
| Flies high the cow and low the cattle, a twister does the farmyard rattle. | |
| He's a little on edge today. I wouldn't rattle his cage if I were you. | |
| When the train goes through the station, the windows rattle noisily and the whole house shakes. | |
| The baby was playing with a rattle. | |
| Tom took the rattle from the baby. | |
| The piggy bank was stuffed so full that it could no longer rattle, which is the highest state of perfection that a piggy bank can attain. | |
| The baby is putting the rattle in its mouth. | |
| I received a rattle as a gift for Purim. | |
| You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. | |
| As they passed, a great rock came thundering down with a hoarse rattle which woke the echoes in the silent gorges, and startled the weary horses into a gallop. | |
| The rattle of our wheels died away as we drove through drifts of rotting vegetation—sad gifts, as it seemed to me, for Nature to throw before the carriage of the returning heir of the Baskervilles. | |
| Yanni's doorknob began to rattle. | |