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How to use pattering in a sentence

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The sound of rain pattering on the pavement added to my feeling of hopelessness.
The crew could hear metallic pattering on their plane as the run in continued through heavier flak.
Then you take a little jump, and what follows immediately is lightsome and pattering.
With rain pattering gently off the window of her small bedroom, the fourteen year-old girl clambered out of bed to face the first day of term.
And then I hear the sound of little feet and they aren't pitter pattering, they are running.
I handed her the pen and paper and she thanked me quickly, pattering back over to her table.
He leapt to his feet and came pattering over to me, followed closely by Chestnut.
Children run delightedly between the different science exhibits, their feet pattering over Hadid's pillowy shapes.
We'd release them, then you'd hear their footsteps pattering across the woodwork, then they'd fall into the trough with a thump.
The pattering textures of the opening provide a foil for plaintive central ruminations largely cast in two voices.
The sounds seemed to have awakened the maids, too, for I could hear their bare feet pattering outside my door.
As for myself, the idea of creating a travel magazine had been pattering along in my head for quite some time now, about ten years I guess.
They could hear his fat paws wildly pattering for water on the empty wooden bucket.
If you closed your eyes it was easy enough to mistake that sound, that staccato of rifle and gunfire, for rain pattering onto the surface of a raincoat.
I ran to the stair chamber, listening to the footfalls of the figure come back down the stairs with another pair of feet pattering quickly behind.
I should perhaps warn you that if I don't get any votes, I might just end up doing nothing but listening to the rain pattering against the window.
A light spill of acid rain was pattering against his window.
A violent report caused the watchers to flinch involuntarily, and after a second or so of quietness, the pattering of falling fragments was heard.
We traveled downwards for a while, as I watched the darkness and listened to the gentle pattering of tiny feet and the drip of water falling into a pool.
We heard Natalie pattering up the hall, so I decided to pull away.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The rain is dripping from the trees without and pattering on the stone flags.
I could hear the pattering of their feet upon the planks as they scampered away.
It made a pattering noise upon the unburnt part of the hills.
There was a pattering noise and an old woman rat poked her head round a rafter.
They may hunt the whole country-side, while the raindrops are pattering round their inactivity.
The dancing and the scurry of pattering feet had both ceased.
So the child flew away like a bird, and, making bare her small white feet went pattering along the moist margin of the sea.
Then I heard the pattering of their feet, and they came round me by tens and by twenties, and fawned upon me.
Thus clad and ticketed, I go pattering along the pilgrimage.
Then came a sudden pattering of bare feet, the sound of heavy objects being thrown about, a violent creaking and the rattling of chains.
These rain-drops are like the pattering feet of the invisible host.
There was a delighted squeal and the sound of pattering feet.
I close my eyes now and fancy I hear it pattering on the leaves.
Some animal kept rustling and pattering, but I let it rustle and patter.
Outside the rain was pattering and there was absolutely no light.
Suddenly the pattering noise increased with tenfold violence.
The roar of the splashing and pattering was quite deafening.
And so on and so on, more conjugal talk pattering softly and unintelligibly, until they were both ready to go down to tea.
First he passed two Dominicans in their long black dresses, who swept by him with downcast looks and pattering lips, without so much as a glance at him.
She begged him to remain at home, as she could hear the rain pattering against the window, but in spite of her entreaties he pulled on his large mackintosh and left the house.
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