rattle off

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Also, reel off. Utter or perform rapidly or effortlessly, often at length. For example, The treasurer rattled off the list of all those who had not paid their dues, or She reeled off song after song. The verb rattle has been used for fast talking since the late 1300s and for other kinds of fast production since the late 1800s (George Bernard Shaw wrote of “men who rattle off their copy” in a letter of 1896). The verb reel off, which alludes to unwinding from a reel, has been used figuratively since about 1830.

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How to use rattle off in a sentence

Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.
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A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
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The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.
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The off-year special election into which Duke threw himself drew little media notice at first.
The Louisiana Racists Who Courted Steve Scalise|Jason Berry|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Aaron Paul may play a young Han Solo in the first Star Wars spin-off.
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A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
It is much more convenient than a lamp, because it doesn't rattle, and you can throw the light on the page so much better.
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
He will rattle on in Spanish till Herr S. gets desperate, and tries to reduce him to order.
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
The nerves of our industrial civilization are worn thin with the rattle of its own machinery.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
The brazen roar of the cannon is mingled with the intermittent rattle of innumerable machine guns.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, April 28, 1920|Various