Example Sentences

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The wispy author, who wears her hair in a halo, pitter-patters about in a set of high-ceilinged rooms in which the light seems to have died long ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

I felt little pitter-patters in my heart the day I tried on my first pointe shoes.

From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince