rattle off
phrasal verb
rattled off; rattling off; rattles off
informal
: to say (something) quickly or easily from memory
She rattled off the names of all 50 states.
Examples of rattle off in a Sentence
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Her friends and family all rattled off a list of Bolan’s adventures and hikes lasting hundreds, sometimes thousands, of miles: Driving across Canada in her van, backpacking through New Zealand and climbing mountains in Jordan.
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Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 22 May 2024
Native Arm Apps for Windows At today's event, Microsoft rattled off a list of big software titles that have been updated to run natively on Windows systems powered by Arm chips, which should deliver better performance than apps using Prism.
—Michael Muchmore, PCMAG, 20 May 2024
Amanda Silver, corporate vice president of product design, user research, and engineering systems, rattles off a long list of stats from studies that have shown how much faster and more accurately programmers code with Copilot.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 20 May 2024
After a 1-2 start in conference play, the Cavaliers have rattled off six straight with a 10-9 victory at McDonogh on April 16 and Friday’s win at Calvert Hall the biggest statements.
—Glenn Graham, Baltimore Sun, 7 May 2024
Young kids are kidnapped and groomed to be killers, according to Armes, who rattled off names of several infamous Mexican female assassins, like Claudia Ochoa Felix, known as the Kim Kardashian of Mexican cartels.
—Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 14 May 2024
Finigan rattled off a list of ingredients sourced from the immediate vicinity—lobsters caught by her husband; scallops raised by Marsden and Bob Brewer, a father-son team in Stonington; and peas from Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch's Four Season Farm.
—Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 5 May 2024
Its subjects rattle off a dizzying array of subcategories, from HBCU Twitter to NBA Twitter to Blackademic Twitter, and so forth.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
The 17-year-old, composed and well prepared, rattled off data about the need for youth involvement in civic decision-making.
—Mará Rose Williams, Kansas City Star, 14 Apr. 2024
Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 22 May 2024
Native Arm Apps for Windows At today's event, Microsoft rattled off a list of big software titles that have been updated to run natively on Windows systems powered by Arm chips, which should deliver better performance than apps using Prism.
—Michael Muchmore, PCMAG, 20 May 2024
Amanda Silver, corporate vice president of product design, user research, and engineering systems, rattles off a long list of stats from studies that have shown how much faster and more accurately programmers code with Copilot.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 20 May 2024
After a 1-2 start in conference play, the Cavaliers have rattled off six straight with a 10-9 victory at McDonogh on April 16 and Friday’s win at Calvert Hall the biggest statements.
—Glenn Graham, Baltimore Sun, 7 May 2024
Young kids are kidnapped and groomed to be killers, according to Armes, who rattled off names of several infamous Mexican female assassins, like Claudia Ochoa Felix, known as the Kim Kardashian of Mexican cartels.
—Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 14 May 2024
Finigan rattled off a list of ingredients sourced from the immediate vicinity—lobsters caught by her husband; scallops raised by Marsden and Bob Brewer, a father-son team in Stonington; and peas from Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch's Four Season Farm.
—Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 5 May 2024
Its subjects rattle off a dizzying array of subcategories, from HBCU Twitter to NBA Twitter to Blackademic Twitter, and so forth.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
The 17-year-old, composed and well prepared, rattled off data about the need for youth involvement in civic decision-making.
—Mará Rose Williams, Kansas City Star, 14 Apr. 2024
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“Rattle off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rattle%20off. Accessed 1 Jun. 2024.
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