How to Use rattle in a Sentence

rattle

1 of 2 verb

• The thing about Ava is she doesn’t get rattled.
  — Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2026
• Yet the young Raiders weren’t rattled by a rough start.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 2 June 2026
• Some days will stretch it; others will rattle it to the core.
  — Neri Karra Sillaman, Harvard Business Review, 20 Mar. 2026
• During the day there is no rattling.
  — John Paul, The Providence Journal, 20 Feb. 2026
• Early in the year, we got rattled.
  — Martin Henderson, Oc Register, 18 Feb. 2026
• Look past the saber rattling and campaign rhetoric.
  — Brian Jones, Oc Register, 6 Jan. 2026
• The dude is steady, even-keeled, doesn’t appear to get rattled.
  — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
• Markets were rattled by the news.
  — Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2026
• Don’t let the losses rattle you.
  — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026
• Kay woke before dawn to the sound of rain rattling the windows.
  — Charlotte Brooks, Big Think, 13 Mar. 2026
• Earlier in the week, a pair of quakes rattled the same area.
  — Chelsea Hylton, CBS News, 8 May 2026
• But the brink of history can rattle the best of ’em.
  — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
• When this thing went off, every filling in my mouth rattled.
  — Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
• The officers would walk by and rattle the cage.
  — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 6 May 2026
• He wasn’t rattled by the SEC stage.
  — Zach Sweet, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2025
• Thank god, because how boring would life be if we got rattled and stopped all that.
  — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 20 May 2026
• No rattling wheels, no jolts, just a smooth, whisper-quiet ride.
  — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
• None of it seemed to rattle the president.
  — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 24 Jan. 2026
• Even now, months later, the author looks rattled.
  — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 15 Jan. 2026
• She is rattled by her own sloppiness.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026
• The Broncos sped him up at times, but he was never rattled.
  — Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
• The war has rattled the Middle East.
  — Munir Ahmed, Fortune, 11 June 2026
• Harriet’s old pans rattled in the kitchen.
  — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 30 May 2026
• The loss rattled many in the neighborhood.
  — Andrew Ramos, CBS News, 25 June 2026
• Gray wallpaper rattled in the wind like ashen newsprint in a dying fire.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 12 Feb. 2024
• The blast rattled Gentry Stover from his sleep.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025
• The blast rattled Gentry Stover from his sleep.
  — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2025
• The president didn't seem rattled by it.
  — ABC News, 7 Sep. 2025
• Then back-and-forth strikes rattled the Middle East this week.
  — Konstantin Toropin, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2026
• Shut your bedroom door or use a towel to prevent rattling.
  — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025

rattle

2 of 2 noun

• I'd go nuts if I had to endure the rattle of that bottling plant every day.
• The owl tells him to sing and play his rattle in the morning.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2021
• The source of my rattle was a locking pin on the front brake.
  — Thomas Ricker, The Verge, 6 Sep. 2018
• His life has been lived in joy with his finger on those rattle cans.
  — Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 17 Mar. 2022
• But a circlet of shells could have been a bracelet, a rattle, or both.
  — Sarah Wild, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2020
• The rattle inside his body that had played the white noise to his life was hushed.
  — Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
• They were built to handle the rattles and shakes of dirt-road driving.
  — Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2019
• But a night off from calling football didn't stop the rattle in his voice.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 26 Oct. 2022
• His drum beats rattle and scatter and swell, the sound bouncing off of rock.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Sep. 2023
• Be lulled into peace by the rattle of the train on its way to Hogwarts!
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2021
• An echo of chattering macaws cracks through the rattle of the cicadas.
  — Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2023
• Would this award-winning rattle be that much better than the many my baby had tossed aside?
  — Glamour, 6 June 2022
• In fact, there's that sort of rattle and a clang to our entire cul-de-sac, and that's mostly on us.
  — Chris Erskine, latimes.com, 25 May 2018
• Their rasping sound is something akin to a rattlesnake’s rattle.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 30 June 2020
• By midday, the rattle of Aztec anklets rang across the park along with the steady beat of drums.
  — Austindedios, oregonlive, 10 Sep. 2023
• A little two-inch yellow box of Ship matches with a healthy rattle to it.
  — Ann Wroe, The Economist, 7 Dec. 2020
• From inside her house, M heard a rattle of gunfire and a chorus of screams.
  — Washington Post, 5 July 2018
• Old men fished along its quays despite the rattle of German machine guns.
  — Bruce Dale, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
• Gender-reveal cakes have a pink or blue rattle hidden in the cake’s center hole.
  — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2022
• Pygmy rattlesnakes are much smaller with a tinier rattle and are considered very rare.
  — Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 13 Aug. 2025
• Think things like rattles, balls, activity gyms, and more.
  — Kimberly Zapata, Parents, 2 Oct. 2025
• How does this April fool feel as another decade clicks past with the deadly rattle of a snake?
  — Herb Caen, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2018
• The snakes can, however, lose their rattles or simply decide not to use them.
  — Don Sweeney april 21, Sacbee.com, 21 Apr. 2026
• No weird rattles or vibrations.
  — Adam Iscoe, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
• To drive home the threat, Loesch's parents would sneak outside the window and rattle chains.
  — Deena Prichep, NPR, 8 Dec. 2025
• Give the baby a dose of big-city adventure with a rattle that looks like a vintage taxicab.
  — Good Housekeeping, 16 Nov. 2022
• Rattlesnakes can be recognized by the distinct sound their rattles make.
  — Don Sweeney april 21, Sacbee.com, 21 Apr. 2026
• Safe for ages 3 months and up, the rattle is made of BPA-free plastic.
  — Maya Polton, Parents, 8 Mar. 2024
• Paul made the first, missed the second and watched Embiid's long toss rattle in and out the rim at the horn.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 21 Apr. 2021
• The rattle looks like multiple layers of scales stacked on top of one another.
  — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2021