rat-a-tat-tat

/ ˈrætəˈtæt, ˈrætəˌtætˈtæt /

noun

1. the sound of knocking on a door

Example Sentences

At one point, a rat-a-tat-tat could be heard on the microphone, and an announcer said, “Thuuunderrrr. The guns recoil. The earth shakes and 1-5-5 mm shell tears through the air. ... Steel rain inbound.”

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Mulaney’s rat-a-tat-tat delivery demanded you keep up with his thought process.

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After a while—faintly at first and then louder—came the shrilling of fifes and rat-a-tat-tat of the drums.

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Far away in the mountains behind them, the rapid-fire rat-a-tat-tat of machine guns echoed loudly.

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The rat-a-tat-tat of sustained fire outside filtered through the windows — soldiers firing on a drone they spotted flying in the cloud-filled sky.

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