How to Use rat in a Sentence

rat

noun

• I can't believe that rat turned us in to the police!
• Every night he goes to work out with the other gym rats.
• No one understands why she's with a rat like him.
• Are there rats or mice on cruise ships?
  — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 6 May 2026
• That ****** is a rat ****** cap.
  — Dan Raby, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
• More than likely a mouse or rat.
  — Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
• The rain, or the rats, had made holes in all the flour sacks.
  — Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
• These are like dollar store rats.
  — Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
• The rat tail, his little jabs here and there.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
• Are rats cute, creepy, or a matter of genre?
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 21 Oct. 2025
• There are rats in the yard from the orange tree.
  — Joan Morris, Mercury News, 18 May 2026
• Now, any creature that eats rats is a friend of mine.
  — Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026
• For her, yes, the noise, yes, the dirt, yes, the heat—whoops, a rat!
  — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• The risk of seeing a rat or mouse on your next cruise is, too.
  — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 6 May 2026
• Not a gym rat but want to burn off the late-night snacks and buffet bites?
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 30 Jan. 2024
• These posts referred to the witness as a rat and as a snitch.
  — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2026
• Both old friends had fond memories of rats.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026
• Stop these rats by installing a locking gas cap.
  — Josh Max, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
• Noe returned to the wharf and slung the dead rat across the water.
  — Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
• In one, an empty egg crate was filled with newborn rats.
  — Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
• One of the rats available for adoption.
  — Neal Riley, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
• On one side stood a dozen or so cages occupied by snow-white rats.
  — Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
• The human cells wound up making up one-sixth of the rats' brains.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 24 Feb. 2023
• VanDam hopes the craze fades, the crowds ebb and the rat hole can stay.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
• Lali actively hunts mice, rats, and birds.
  — Tao Lin, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
• In the meantime, traffic and rats.
  — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 5 Jan. 2026
• The two cats stayed at the house but also roamed outside to help with the rats.
  — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 4 July 2026
• Short of these kinds of changes, no amount of rat poison can fix the problem.
  — Arkansas Online, 20 Jan. 2026
• Squirrel poop is about half an inch long, but a little rounder than rat poop.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 1 July 2026
• That way, the rat has to work at getting the nut, which will trigger the trap.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2024