RAT in a Sentence

Learn RAT 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.

80 example sentences for RAT, such as:

1. Like a rat in a hole.
2. Not even a rat had been killed.
3. The rats was gnawing at the box.
4. A rat had gnawed a hole in the box.
5. The back yard was infested by rats.

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 Meanings and Examples of RAT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rat
 n.  any of various long tailed rodents, similar to but larger than mouse
Classic Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
1  Not even a rat had been killed.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
2  Then there was the peculiar dying reference to a rat.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
3  The other was his singular dying reference to a rat.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
4  It was so small that a rat could hardly pass through.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
5  A rat could not conceal himself either in the room or the corridor.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
6  Milverton had glided as quick as a rat to the side of the room and stood with his back against the wall.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
7  And as for the exotic viands the Irish ate at the siege-- personally I'd as soon eat a nice juicy rat as some of the victuals they've been serving me recently at the hotel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
8  Hope you don't mind the house looking like a rat's nest.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
9  What a relief it was to choking Stubb, when a rat made a sudden racket in the hold below.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
10  I asked what he meant, and he grinned and said they belonged to the rat family.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
11  Then he begun to squeal like a rat and run about wringin his hands.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
12  "The gray hue of a reassured rat," said Courfeyrac.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS
13  The cellar rat, which emitted more smoke than light, rendered the interior of the elephant confusedly visible.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
14  Gavroche still had the cellar rat in his hand.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
15  There appears, in the humid mist, the rat which seems the product to which Paris has given birth.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
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.