14 examples of rat-tat-tat in sentences

"Bang! rat-tat-tat! whack!" sounded from the schoolhouse, and the faces of the younger children paled.

But even as they talked there came the harsh, importunate rat-tat-tat of an irregular volley from among the rocks, and the high, keening whistle of bullets over their heads.

CHAPTER II THE RESCUE The rat-tat-tat of gunfire suddenly ceased.

[The WOODPECKER knocks three times with his bill on the tree: Rat-tat-tat!] Come in!

[THE WOODPECKER'S knock is heard: Rat-tat-tat.]

[Rat-tat-tat, from the WOODPECKER.] Come in!

Where's the knocker?" He felt for it in the darkness and gave a thundering rat-tat-tat at the door.

You must imagine snow waist-deep, the heights furrowed with trenches, the frosty balsam stillness split with screaming shells and shrapnel and the rat-tat-tat of machine guns; imagine yourself floundering upward with winter overcoat, blanket, pack, rifle, and cartridge-beltany one who has snow-shoed in mountains in midwinter can fancy what fighting meant in a place like this.

He was just conscious of Courtenay shouting something about "Get back," of his being thrust violently back into the wide trench, of two or three figures crowding in after him, cursing and staggering and shooting back into the Frying Pan, of Courtenay's voice shouting again to "Stand clear," of a knot of men scrambling and heaving at something, and then of a deafening "Rat-tat-tat-tat," and the streaming flashes of a machine-gun.

Bullets were kicking up little spurts of dust about us; bullets were tang-tanging through the trees and clipping off twigs, which fell down upon our heads; the rat-tat-tat of the German musketry was answered by the angry snarl of the Belgian machine-guns; in a field near by the bodies of two recently killed cuirassiers lay sprawled grotesquely.

"I have often thought" The sentence was never completed, being interrupted by a thundering rat-tat-tat at the front door, followed by a pealing at the bell, which indicated that the visitor was manfully following the printed injunction to "Ring also."

* Rat-tat-tat at the door next afternoon, and little Pansy ran to open it, expecting to see the postman, but the knocking was only a bit of Tom's fun.

So wrapt was he in these unhappy self-communings, that he did not hear a vigorous "rat-tat-tat" on the door of the little back parlor.

Some time had thus elapsed when my combative propensities were suddenly aroused by the loud dash of a carriage to the door, and the peremptory rat-tat-tat which followed.

14 examples of  rat-tat-tat  in sentences