Pattered
[pætəd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Patter
Edited by Cecilia
Examples
- Both listened to the thunder, which was loud, and to the rain, as it washed off the roof, and pattered on the parapets of the arches. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The rain came down, thick and fast, and pattered noisily among the leafless bushes. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Outside the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered against the windows. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- As my waking sense returned, the bare walls of the guard room closed round me, and the rain pattered against the single window. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The rain fell heavily on the roof, and pattered on the ground, and dripped among the evergreens and the leafless branches of the trees. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- At first it dropped slowly and regularly, then it pattered into a stream. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
Edited by Cecilia