1 You start--did you hear a noise? I daresay it is only a rat scrambling along the rafters of the adjoining schoolroom: it was a barn before I had it repaired and altered, and they are generally haunted by rats.
2 When he played out, Johnny Miller bought in for a dead rat and a string to swing it with.
3 Did you hear a noise? I dare say it is a rat scrambling along the rafters of the adjoining schoolroom.
4 By the time Ben was fagged out, Tom had traded the next chance to Billy Fisher for a kite, in good repair; and when he played out, Johnny Miller bought in for a dead rat and a string to swing it with -- and so on, and so on, hour after hour.
5 But she watched for a chance, and directly banged away at a rat; but she missed him wide, and said "Ouch!" it hurt her arm so.
6 And when you throw at a rat or anything, hitch yourself up a tiptoe and fetch your hand up over your head as awkward as you can, and miss your rat about six or seven foot.
7 Like a rat in a hole.
8 A rat had gnawed a hole in the box.
9 The pest control officer put bowls of rat poison in the attic.
10 Paul got caught up in the rat race and was never at home.
11 I had to get out of the rat race and take a look at the real world again.
12 The back yard was infested by rats.
13 The rats was gnawing at the box.
14 Stores of grain are frequently attacked by pests, especially rats.
15 We put down some poisoned bait to kill the rats.