PATTER in a Sentence

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For PATTER, below is one of 36 sentences:
Both listened to the thunder, which was loud, and to the rain, as it washed off the roof, and pattered on the parapets of the arches.

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 Meanings and Examples of PATTER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
patter
 v.  rain gently
 v.  make light, rapid and repeated sounds
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  She heard the patter of Prissy's feet as she broke into a trot, and then the sound died away on the soft earth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
2  She had been too busy remembering the swift running patter of Bonnie's feet and her bubbling laugh to think that he, too, might be remembering and with pain even greater than her own.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
3  The boys were being put to bed; the patter of their bare, escaping feet could be heard occasionally, as well as the pursuing voice of the quadroon, lifted in mild protest and entreaty.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVII
4  Go patter thy petitions to heaven," said the fierce Norman, "for we on earth have no time to listen to them.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
5  There was a thin, crisp, continuous patter from somewhere in the heart of that crawling bank.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
6  I could only hear the heavy splashing thump of the stern-wheel and the patter of these things.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
7  He heard something like the gentle patter of several drops of rain on the plank which covered him.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS
8  I trembled when I heard the patter of little feet down the dusty road, and saw the growing row of dark solemn faces and bright eager eyes facing me.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IV
9  Ten o'clock passed, and I heard the footsteps of the maid as they pattered off to bed.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
10  Both listened to the thunder, which was loud, and to the rain, as it washed off the roof, and pattered on the parapets of the arches.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
11  The rain came down, thick and fast, and pattered noisily among the leafless bushes.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
12  Outside the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered against the windows.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
13  Pork pattered into the dining room and Scarlett groped her way into the inky small room and sank down on the sofa.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
14  She slipped off her worn shoe and, barefooted, she pattered swiftly to the bureau, not even feeling her festered toe.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
15  The bullets pattered along the lake, and one even pierced the bark of their little vessel.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
Example Sentence:
1  You have to learn to resist the sales patter.
2  It's difficult to look at the cars without getting the sales patter.
3  She's not particularly interested in having children, but her husband longs for the patter of tiny feet.
4  Rain pattered gently outside, dripping on to the roof from the pines.