Read full poem →Sobbed through all its robes of darkness,
Rattled like a shore with pebbles, 70
Answered wailing, answered weeping,
Dictionary Entry
To create a rattling sound by shaking or striking.
In a Sentence
“Rattle the can of cat treats if you need to find Fluffy.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. rattledoff rattleddown rattledrattled windows
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Poetry examples for “rattled”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Sobbed through all its robes of darkness,
Rattled like a shore with pebbles,
Answered wailing, answered weeping,
Read full poem →I picked up off the straw-dust covered floor.
Not bones, but the ill-fitted window rattled.
The door was still because I held it shut
Read full poem →The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard
And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood,
Read full poem →To the dark house after so long an absence,
And the key rattled loudly into place
Seemed to warn someone to be getting out
Read full poem →The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard
And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of
Read full poem →And bones cast in a little low dry garret,
Rattled by the rat’s foot only, year to year.
But at my back from time to time I hear