How to Use rat-a-tat in a Sentence

rat-a-tat

noun

• Still have that rat-a-tat-tat on the sideline.
  — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2026
• Matt and Pete had stuck around to rat-a-tat their vamp.
  — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
• The regular-size kid that followed in their wake kept up a constant rat-a-tat on his drum.
  — Lee Marshall, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 May 2026
• The rat-a-tat-tat of victory after victory has tailed off with this team.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
• Ritchie’s terrific rat-a-tat-tat script remains his best, performed by a cast at the height of their game.
  — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Sep. 2026
• But Kilgo had been used to the rat-a-tat-tat of constant newspaper deadlines.
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 28 Jan. 2026
• Only the heel of a woman's oxford pump could make that sort of solid but somehow dainty rat-a-tat-tat.
  — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 9 June 2026
• Daily Variety reflected the rat-a-tat newspaper style of the era in which it was born.
  — William Earl, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
• The very utterance of the pairing — Stabler to Biletnikoff — has a nice rat-a-tat-tat sound to it.
  — Steve Buckley, New York Times, 2 June 2026
• Her ability to sell the most demented line readings with a doe-eyed smile—and to thrive in the show’s rat-a-tat pacing—gave 30 Rock some of its funniest moments.
  — Keaton Bell, Vogue, 2 Jan. 2026
• In his mesmerizing, rat-a-tat, expletive-riddled style, Evans nonchalantly recalls the almost unbelievable trajectory of his life, leaving the reader barely able to catch her breath.
  — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 9 Feb. 2026
• Once Ida is revived, Buckley is rife with tics and guttural asides, switching between rat-a-tat mobster slang and Shelley’s flowery English prose like some postmodern literary Gollum.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2026
• It’s also brilliantly arranged, from the chiming guitar on the intro to the way the rhythm section makes its entrance (McCartney-esque bassline and rat-a-tat snare) before pulling back on the chorus, where Ruess’ vocal appears to be floating in space on a bed of keyboards and piano.
  — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 26 Sep. 2025
• Nick Interlandi’s soundscapes swell with the rat-a-tat of machine guns, or zero in on the precise, satisfying crunch of glass cracking under bone, while Oren Soffer’s cinematography runs the gamut from sickly clinical to startlingly sensual.
  — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2026