rat
Example Sentences
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Strikes have led to rubbish piling up, with uncollected waste several feet high in some streets in the first few months, amid complaints of rats, foxes and seagulls tearing open plastic bags.
From BBC
Within weeks of arriving, I loathed Madras, where rats stole the padding from my earphones, the humidity left me weak and men tailed my mother in traffic, desperate to buy our imported car.
A new demographic label has swept through China’s social-media feeds in recent months: “rat people.”
From MarketWatch
Rats live in drains, sewers and burrows, and emerge mostly at night, so counting them is nearly impossible and estimates on rat population figures vary.
From BBC
But Dharmendra wore his stardom lightly, staying away from the rat race and said he never wanted to be number one in the industry.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
