Crossword-Solution: RATTLING 8 letters, 13 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Rattling p. pr. & vb. n. of Rattle

We have 13 clues for the answer “RATTLING”

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Emitting percussive sounds 1 answer
Fazing 1 answer
Making short percussive sounds 1 answer
Noisily shaking 1 answer
Not good under-the-hood sound 1 answer
Shaking, as a saber 1 answer
Shaking, saber-style 1 answer
Snake's danger signal. 1 answer
Some saber sounds 1 answer
Sounding like a clunky car 1 answer
Spooky sound of chains or bones 1 answer
Clattering 2 answers
Lively 89 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
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greedy person
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Sentences with RATTLING (5)

The clanking of fetters and the rattling of chains in the prison, and the pious psalm and solemn prayer in the church, may be heard at the same time.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
Marie, when she was alone or when she sat sewing in the evening, often thought about what it must be like down there where Emil was; where there were flowers and street bands everywhere, and carriages rattling up and down, and where there was a little blind boot-black in front of the cathedral who could play any tune you asked for by dropping the lids of blacking-boxes on the stone steps.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
People rattling Londonwards peered into the darkness outside the carriage windows, and saw only a rare, flickering, vanishing spark dance up from the direction of Horsell, a red glow and a thin veil of smoke driving across the stars, and thought that nothing more serious than a heath fire was happening.
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992
The old farmers gathered together their families in their wagons, and were heard for some time rattling along the hollow roads, and over the distant hills.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving 1992
Soon London houses were left behind, and rattling over old Hammersmith Bridge, Sir Percy was driving his bays rapidly towards Richmond.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993

Quotes with RATTLING (3)

They found a coin and helped him to the telescope. He complained and insulted them, but they helped him look at each individual letter in turn. The first letter was a 'w,' the second an 'e.' Then there was a gap. An 'a' followed, then a 'p,' an 'o,' and an 'l.'Marvin paused for a rest. After a few moments they resumed and let him see the 'o,' the 'g,' the 'i,' the 'z,' and the 'e.'The next two words were 'for' and 'the.' The last one was a long one, and Marvin needed another …
Douglas Adams So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
I think it should be done over, Buddy. …Please make peace with your wit. It's not going to go away, Buddy. To dump it on your own advice would be as bad and unnatural as dumping your adjectives and your adverbs because Prof. B. wants you to. What does he know about it? What do you really know about your own wit? I've been sitting here tearing up notes to you. I keep starting to say things like 'This one is wonderfully constructed,' and 'The conversation between the two cops i…
J. D. Salinger Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
But I can no longer ready any faith's Napoleonic saber rattling without picturing smoking rubble on cable news. I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.
Sarah Vowell
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 14 times in crossword archives (1951–2023).