Examples of rattle

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Studies on the function of rattling calls and mewing notes would be important since the calling rate differed according to the association with macaques.
The chain cable rattles out, the noise is deafening and the whole ship is covered in a cloud of dust and sparks.
Such nuclei behave as if they have a-particles rattling around inside them.
When the third landwave rattled the stovepipe inside the brick chimney, the earth broke open.
The piano joins a percussion section of rattles and gongs that dominates the ritual, whilst a mournful cello portrays the plight of the horse.
In the third version, the three brands are rattled off together between breath pauses and one intonation contour.
A denuded orchestral palette, with rattling percussion and sombre woodwind lines, is supported by an austere, pianissimo chord.
Instead, there was a row of sitting and kneeling men with gourd rattles and a wooden barrel drum, chanting melancholic songs that put me to sleep.
Fruits may persist on vines for up to 18 months at which time the ovary is reduced to a papery brown hull with seeds rattling about inside.
However, the alliance was not rattled.
To illustrate the difficulties a child faces, imagine viewing a simple scene such as a baby dropping a rattle.
A lightweight oscillating motor causes glass bottles, placed on these mattress springs, to rattle against one another.
The imperceptible vibrations from the ship caused the liquor bottles on the shelves in the tax-free shop to rattle, and the effect was quite hallucinatory.
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