rats
/ (ræts) /
an exclamation of rejection or disdain
Australian slang deranged; insane
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How to use rats in a sentence
And in a city with large slums and poor sanitation, rats can thrive easily, fleas and all, to spread the plague.
Bubonic Plague Is Back (but It Never Really Left) | Kent Sepkowitz | November 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe researchers first isolated a set of cells known as neural stem cells (NSCs) from the brains of rats.
Fish Oil, Turmeric, and Ginseng, Oh My! Are ‘Brain Foods’ B.S.? | Dr. Anand Veeravagu, MD | October 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAlf Adams did not want to talk rats but he did want to show me his bottle collection preserved in a dusty shed.
“Did you want to know about rats,” he asked, finally, as we walk down the hill to drink tea in his living room.
Remember when Chandler was sexually attracted to sharks and Phoebe raised a litter of baby rats?
Ney and Marmont did not accompany the other Commissioners with their sorrowful terms; like rats they left the sinking ship.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonBut the next time that the two rats went out together, poor Simple did not come off so well.
The Nursery, December 1881, Vol. XXX | VariousHe had known men who were almost as sly as rats; but on the whole he looked upon them as inferior beings.
The Nursery, December 1881, Vol. XXX | Variousrats, however, are commonly infected as if by a miasm before the disease appears in man.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin Malleyrats burrow along a drain pipe from the sewer into the house and admit sewer gas.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin Malley
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