Definition: 1. A small animal with a long tail, that looks like a large mouse, usually considered a pest. 2. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse. 3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike. 4. A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible.
Use 'rat' in a sentence:
1. How I hate a rat!
2. My cat caught a rat.
3. Cat, cat, eats that rat!
4. "Nothing at all," replied the Rat firmly.
5. They accused the local government of ratting on its promises.
6. The rats were controlled by poisoning.
7. They were accused of encouraging children to rat on their parents.
8. And this is a fast rat.
9. There is a rat.
10. He held his breath as a rat scuttled past.
11. You are a rat.
12. One hundred million rats are killed each year by pest exterminators.
13. The cat meets the rat.
14. The apartments were infested with rats and roaches.
15. I had to get out of the rat race and take a look at the real world again.
16. The city is under threat from a plague of rats.
17. A rat can gnaw a hole through wood.
18. A rat? Yes, a rat. Right next to you.
19. Suddenly the rat cried, "Hooray!"
20. The rats gnawed a hole in the box.
21. What did you do with the gun you took from that little rat Turner?
22. The government is accused of ratting on its promises to the unemployed.
23. Where is the rat?
24. The rat is in the boot.
25. I have a rat.
26. It's me—it's old Rat!
27. Here the Rat nudged the Mole.
28. I was a rat?
29. Mr. Rat, Mr. Rat, I'm near the river.
30. The rat looked around him.
31. There's a fat rat!
32. But the rat wouldn't listen to her.
33. The rat! I saw it!
34. A rat has gnawed a hole in the box.
35. Is the rat important?
36. We realized too late that we were caught like rats in a trap.
37. She claims he ratted on their divorce settlement.
38. The brown rat has prominent ears and a long scaly tail.
39. Rats had gnawed through the cable.
40. The rats had been conditioned to ring a bell when they wanted food.
41. Where I come from, you don't rat on your friends.
42. People think I'm sick for having a rat as a pet.
43. The Hotel has been ordered to close because it is overrun by mice and rats.
44. The stores were overrun with rats and mice.
45. If I don't send a picture, he will smell a rat.
46. Work will now begin to test the hypothesis in rats.
47. Rats! I forgot my glasses.
48. Though Lloyd George's behaviour seemed curious, Haig still did not smell a rat.
49. He nearly jumped out of his skin when he saw two rats.
50. Thus, teenagers become mall rats, hanging out but rarely shopping in those megamalls.
51. The scientists have experimented on the tiny neck arteries of rats.
52. This was demonstrated in a laboratory experiment with rats.
53. A huge effort was made to exterminate the rats.
