Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Rattling or likely to rattle; clattering.
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- adjective That
rattles .
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Examples
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Yes, the outside of her figurehead was mighty hard to beat, everybody said so; but the inside was kind of -- well, kind of rattly, as you might say.
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As for us kanakas, our heads were hot and light and rattly as dry gourds with the whisky and the rum.
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It's a rattly festival of lifesaving compounds that — once the dreaded expiry date has arrived — no longer serve any legal function past perhaps so many makeshift maracas.
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“Diana?” asked Gary, whose voice was low and rattly, due to his extensive allergies and the hay fever he seemed to have for ten months out of the year.
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A rattly old car pulled up in front of the warehouse and a man got out.
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We've all seen them before: Those rattly sidewalk grates that tremble and shake each time someone steps on them.
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Her breath was rattly and drool ran down her chin.
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A rattly old car pulled up in front of the warehouse and a man got out.
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A rattly old car pulled up in front of the warehouse and a man got out.
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Yesh, an bringz mee de rattly mousy toy ob de wicked kitteh ob de basemint!
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