A few long-range arrows pattered on the rocks, and then with a deep booming sound a huge stone, hurled from a mangonel, sang over the head of the two Squires and crushed into splinters amongst the boulders behind them.
Now the two vessels were within arrow flight, and the bolts from the crossbowmen pattered upon the English ship.
Lady Shelton stared at him with frightened eyes; then her little fat feet set themselves in motion, and she patteredhastily out of the room.
Now and then a volley of snow pattered against the window.
The roar of a shotgun shattered the silence, and the shot pellets pattered against the logs and stones.
As the crackling rolls of linen peeled off one after the other, a strong aromatic odour filled the chamber, and fragments of scented wood and of spices pattered down upon the marble floor.
I pattered in flash like a covey knowing, “Ay, bub or grubby, I say.
There was a moment of silence, and the rain pattereddrearily through it against the panes of the window.
But when they had pattered on for a long distance, he knew that either they had passed beneath the stream or that he was totally lost as to direction.
Raf longed to inspect it, but both aliens brushed by him and pattered back down the corridor, the discoverer pouring forth a volume of words to which the officer listened with great intentness.
A golden nonhuman child murmured something as she pattered by me in the street, and I stopped, gripped by a spasm of stagefright.
Tiny hammers pattered on miniature anvils in a tinkling, jingling chorus of musical clinks and taps.
As he pattered down the stairs in his stiff, new Bluchers, he could not help wishing that Stehman had come a little earlier.
The rain splashed and patteredon the engine and on the thwarts, and rolled with a luxurious swishing sound in the bottom.
The heavy dew was shaken in large drops out of the wet flapping sails, against which the reef points pattered like hail as the vessel rolled.
It fed without any apparent fear, and while it pattered over the tiled floor, with its hard claws, it would now and then stop and seize a crum of bread in its forceps, and feed itself like a little monkey.
The little man rose from his solitary seat at the back of the room and pattered across.
Her breath was coming painfully, and her heart pattered against her side like the beatings of an imprisoned bird.
And all the while M'Adam pattered after him, laying hands upon him only to be flung aside as a terrier flings a rat.
The missile pattered on his son's face like a rain-drop on a charging bull, and David smiled as he came on.
He rose, pushed open the door, and softly pattered across the passage.
Ninette pattered on as if she had trod the floors of churches all her life; and as for Beppo, only once did he stir, and then he gave a faint "Baa!
And good Grandmother Viaud dropped a tear upon her knitting; for she remembered many such little feet that had once pattered about the cottage floor.
The boys pattered off, and the lieutenant resumed his perambulation.
His left arm seemed numbed and useless, and a little trickle of blood ran down inside his coat-sleeve and pattered to the deck.
Then Harriet made an attempt to speak of other things--of how the rain pattered against the window-panes, and what an ill night it was for Nathanael's journey.
Now and then shapes met them and pattered past in single file, furtive and sinister.
Rudolph obeyed, and, running at top speed, dimly understood that he had doubled round a squad of grunting runners, whose bare feet pattered close by him in the smoke.
The ashes of the logs, by whose blaze Mademoiselle had told me the secret, lay on the hearth white and cold; and now and then a drop of moisture, sliding down the great chimney, pattered among them.
The little coach dog stepped aside from the road to give them a bark as he passed, and then pattered and pattered his tiny feet to catch up.
A shower of darts pattered down on the deck of the Hellene, but a twinkling later from the Barbarians arose a frightful cry.
A few arrows pattered on the plankings of the Bozra.
The heavy gate was quickly barred, while bullets pattered against the close-set palings.
The bullets from the Indians pattered like hail, sending the bark flying, and drumming upon the bare trunks of the breastworks.
Outside, the rain pattered with a monotonous, dismal sound, and the distant cry of a jackal floated upon the heavy night air.
The white-striped Skunk pattered with quick, mincing little steps into the group, his back humped up and his terrible tail carried high, ready to resent any insult.
He pattered up and down in it, rolled in it, and generally had a pleasing, dusty time.
As he did so three or four rifles flashed from the forest, and the bullets pattered upon the heavy oaken shutter.
A yell of rage arose from the others, and again bullets pattered on the surface of the lake, but all fell short.
He kept up the cry while Tina wrote the receipt, and when she led the way to the door he pattered after them.
Just as the first spring-showers pattered against the ground, there arose such shouts of joy from all the small birds in groves and pastures, that the whole air rang with them and the boy leaped high where he sat.
The hens and geese patteredabout in the yard, and the cows, who felt the spring air away in their stalls, lowed their approval every now and then.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pattered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
