| Out in all weather, bringing a friendly rat-tat-tat to many an isolated cottage door, sharing a bit of news, taking a message to a doctor or priest if someone was in trouble. |
| At the rat-tat-tat of the knocker her heart flew into her mouth. |
| Drops of water the size of a baby's fist come splattering down with the rat-tat-tat of hailstones in their wake. |
| In the rat-tat-tat of nightly machine-gun fire, people are beginning to hear the government's death knell. |
| I would be absorbed in the study of maps and geographies when a thundering rat-tat-tat would make me start from my seat, and, lo! |
| They sat there in complete silence, save for the consistent rat-tat-tat of Gabe's leg knocking over and over against the hard metal of the chair. |
