Word Finder - rattled

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To create a rattling sound by shaking or striking.

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Rattle the can of cat treats if you need to find Fluffy.

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To scare, startle, unsettle, or unnerve.

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To make a rattling noise; to make noise by or from shaking.

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I wish the dashboard in my car would quit rattling.

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To assail, annoy, or stun with a ratting noise.

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To scold; to rail at.

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To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering.

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We rattled along for a couple of miles.

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To make a clatter with one's voice; to talk rapidly and idly; often with on or away.

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She rattled on for an hour.

She was too rattled to deal with anyone.

She came awake with a start as thunder rattled the entire house.

So he rattled on, telling all the gossip he had heard among the orderlies.

The vents rattled without producing heat.

If anything, it rattled her.

Thunder rattled the windowpane and hail pounded on the roof.

He could tell his left leg was bleeding through his long bike pants and his head felt rattled but in one piece.

She, too, was rattled by the events of the night.

Lightning flashed brilliantly and thunder rattled the windowpanes in their frames.

He rattled off more rules, and she listened without registering any of them.

Approaching Elisabeth's house, Jackson felt rattled with uncertainty.

Every breath rattled, and she coughed in her sleep.

Rissa started toward the bathing chamber once again, rattled and exhausted.

The men heard it as it whistled through the trees and rattled the doors of the abbey.

His teeth rattled at the raw energy coursing within his body.

Connor was clearly rattled.

I'm a little rattled.

Sweet, minty and warm, it was comforting at a time when she felt rattled.

Mikey's been rattled by Tony's toothy grin.

The woodwork and the Aldershot players were visibly rattled and a hush descended on the ground as the ball ricocheted away to safety.

Paper rattled and then something was placed on the skin under her ear.

He rattled off his number and then gave Connie a stern look.

My books and pages were rattled off quickly while Martha had pointed to twenty different words listed in a large dictionary.

I rattled off the plate number from memory.

The conversation between her father and the man who should've killed her rattled around in her thoughts as she returned to the door.

His nearness rattled her senses in a way that reminded her of how she felt around Gabriel.

When Saturday's daylight arrived to David Dean's exhausted eyes, the time had slipped past his usual rising hour and voices and footsteps rattled the old timbers of Bird Song.

Being so close rattled her senses, and she thought again of the kiss they had shared over a month before.

Leyon's shake rattled her to her bones, and she pushed at him.

That has me a little rattled.

Lightning flashed so bright that the room lit up, and shortly afterward it thundered so loud that the windows rattled.

Rattled and thrilled, she moved to the other side of the bed to reach the pillows there instead of stretching.

The "eagle stones" of older writers were generally concretions of this kind, containing some substance, like sand, which rattled when the hollow nodule was shaken.

Meanwhile, the wind whistled around the eaves and rattled the plastic covering on the windows, persistently seeking a port of entry.

The phrase 'mature male' rattled around in her thoughts.

Power was rattled again and slammed the next backhand into the tin.

Seeding rattled through with Dale Holmes strolling in 1st in seeding, Longden nearly came in last after hitting that for mentioned hay bail.

He was clearly rattled, for having seen the board calling him in he promptly spun at the first hairpin!

In other words, having come so far, having rattled the saber for so long, we were obliged to follow through.

The Swiss man rattled in a break of 87.

But, unhappily, age discrimination has rattled top legal boffins.

He stood up and listened, but the wind, growing boisterous, shook the door and rattled the windows to distract his attention.

Paris then rattled the crossbar with a minute left on the clock.

Saturday 10th December 2005 Your cage could be rattled by the apparent indecision of friends.

It was a smart little landau which rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge.

And he has, on 20, lost ideal position, played the pot left-handed and rattled it.

Soon we rattled across the level crossing with the Cork main line at Limerick Junction.

A comment in last week's New Journal warning about the risks involved in postal votes had clearly rattled the councilor.

The Lancaster surge seriously rattled York and they lacked organization for a while after.

Paul Stansfield rattled the Brigg crossbar from 25 yards and keeper Peter Collinge made some smart saves to deny the home strikers.