pattered

past tense of patter

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of pattered Big shot guests popped up in the studio audience, including the actors Bryan Cranston, Paul Rudd, and Ryan Reynolds, who did a few bits and pattered about the host going off air; Colbert moved through the usual jokes about the day’s news. David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 May 2026 As rain pattered against windows, and trees lining the streets swayed, flurries of urgent texts began ricocheting from one end of the neighborhood to the other, and panic set in as some residents put on their shoes and hurried out the door. Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pattered
Verb
  • Holland can be heard saying in the video, while the Euphoria star, whose full name is Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman, chatted with a reporter.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 27 July 2026
  • Flow Space chatted with two leading experts about the best ways to keep your eyes healthy in midlife and beyond.
    Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 22 July 2026
Verb
  • But today’s linguistic diversity may be only the shadow of a time when humans conversed in 10 times as many tongues.
    Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 23 July 2026
  • But the writers have conversed with one another and have been living in this world for so long.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 July 2026
Verb
  • Scott Harris, the Tigers’ president of baseball operations who orchestrated the deal, talked last year of not believing in a Skubal window.
    Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Those two talked for about 10 minutes while my wife and I were settled at the table.
    Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Around the family, people shared takeout dinners, swung on hammocks and chattered.
    Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2026
  • The youthful musicians chattered away like creatures of the Transylvanian night.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
Verb
  • Ceuta, SpainAP — Ceuta over the weekend no longer looked like a city on edge, but residents were still rattled by the events of the week.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Tolle navigated a tricky Dodgers lineup with poise and didn’t get rattled in the second after giving up the lead on Hernández’s homer.
    Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2026

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“Pattered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pattered. Accessed 5 Aug. 2026.

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