RAP in a Sentence

Learn RAP from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

49 example sentences for RAP, such as:

1. She was woken by a sharp rap on the door.
2. I bounded up the step and rapped on the door.
3. They rapped the door, but there was no answer.
4. Her favorite music was by Run DMC, a rap group.
5. He rapped loudly at the door with his knuckles.

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 Meanings and Examples of RAP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rap
 n.  heavy or quick, smart, blow; a sharp or resounding knock; concussion from striking
Classic Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1  If you should ask me," said Honey with mysterious importance, "there's only one person she does give a rap about.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  Atlanta ladies vehemently told their husbands that they did not care a rap what the Yankees thought.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
3  And as Lily stared at the breathless suddenness of the suggestion, she continued with her easy laugh: "You don't know them and they don't know you; but that don't make a rap of difference."
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
4  She was growing interested in her occupation of picking out the aria, when there was a second rap at the door.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXIII
5  At this moment, voices were heard in the outer apartment, in earnest conversation, and very soon a rap was heard on the door.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  At this moment, there is a rap at the door; and Eliza goes and opens it.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
7  To this Observatory, then: a stern room, with a deadly statistical clock in it, which measured every second with a beat like a rap upon a coffin-lid; Louisa repaired on the appointed morning.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV
8  He had scarcely swallowed the last spoonful, when there came a soft rap at the door.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  A rap at the door startled him in this occupation.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  Her letter was scarcely finished, when a rap foretold a visitor, and Colonel Brandon was announced.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
11  In this manner they had continued about a quarter of an hour, when Marianne, whose nerves could not then bear any sudden noise, was startled by a rap at the door.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
12  The curtain, which had risen at the close of the scene with Albert, again fell, and a rap was heard at the door.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 88. The Insult.
13  For comeliness of exterior they care not a rap, and therefore a dress coat sits less easily on their figures than is the case with figures of leaner individuals.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
14  The child gave it a brisk rap, drew in the brioche, frightened away the swans, seized the cake, and sprang to his feet.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
15  P'raps tha art a young un, after all, an p'raps tha's got child's blood in thy veins instead of sour buttermilk.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence:
1  She was woken by a sharp rap on the door.
2  You'll be facing a Federal rap for aiding and abetting an escaped convict.
3  Her favorite music was by Run DMC, a rap group.
4  He has created some masterpieces I guess within rap music.
5  The page is a young man of color who raps in crushingly artless rhymes.
6  His father rapped out an answer and then left the room.
7  They rapped the door, but there was no answer.
8  She rapped the table to get everyone's attention.
9  The prisoner rapped out a message on the cell wall.
10  I bounded up the step and rapped on the door.
11  He rapped the government on the knuckles for wasting the public money.
12  He rapped loudly at the door with his knuckles.