Examples of prat in a Sentence
He acts like a real prat sometimes.
I need competent people for this job, and all they send me are prats.
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As Ray Winstone might say, what a prat.
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Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2022
Through it all, however, the gal has retained a sort of grand hauteur, even while prat-falling into a bush.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 24 Mar. 2022
At times Javed’s insistence on reciting lyrics to other people becomes irritating (his girlfriend, a white anti-Thatcher campaigner who did not feature in the book, tells him off for being a prat).
—J.t., The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
Ut pratin utpate modiatumsan henit wisl ulla faccum num autpationum vel doloreetue minci tatet ute dipisci elis aut prat.
—Melanie Feuk, Houston Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2018
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Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2022
Through it all, however, the gal has retained a sort of grand hauteur, even while prat-falling into a bush.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 24 Mar. 2022
At times Javed’s insistence on reciting lyrics to other people becomes irritating (his girlfriend, a white anti-Thatcher campaigner who did not feature in the book, tells him off for being a prat).
—J.t., The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
Ut pratin utpate modiatumsan henit wisl ulla faccum num autpationum vel doloreetue minci tatet ute dipisci elis aut prat.
—Melanie Feuk, Houston Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2018
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“Prat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prat. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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