Miss Lee taught mathematics and didn't care a rap about sociology, and still less about Indians.
We would make her feel that we didn't care a rap whether she was poor or not; that it was she herself we cared about.
He doesn't care a rap for reading; all he cares for is horses.
We all cried over her and assured her a million times we didn't care a rap what her brother had done; we loved her and were proud to have her for a friend.
I'm the man who sat in Berkeley with temerity to wonder if that rapwould have had actual existence had my ear not been there to hear it.
He laughed to think of that rap at his door, the diaphanous shadow in Hume, Marcia's threatened kiss.
The rap sounded--three seconds leaked by--the rap sounded.
But when you opened your door at therap of life you let in many things.
In fact, his only reaction to a low, clear-cut rap at his study was to make him speculate as to whether any rap would have actual existence without an ear there to hear it.
Ze kwam vóór den hoogen spiegel staan en zag, in een rap zicht over haar gansche lijf, hoe ze in 't blauwe kamerlicht oprankte blank en blond en blozend tallenkant.
It had seemed to him as though he had heard a soft rap at the hidden door leading to the secret staircase.
She was suddenly startled from her musings by a soft, timid rap at the door leading to the reception-room.
Another rap at the door was heard, and a royal footman entered.
A gentle rap at the door aroused him from his meditations.
At this moment another hasty rap at the door was heard, and Heinle's arm appeared again in the door.
Every night after supper Uncle Remus would creep softly into the back piazza, place his hat carefully on the floor, rap gently on the door by way of announcement, and so pass into the nursery.
Champagne,' said Curran, 'simply gives a runaway rap at a man's head.
They then entered the hall and put the usual question if the spirits would rap for them, in answer to which, and to the unspeakable delight of all present, they were greeted with a perfect shower of the much-lamented sounds.
I then asked it torap my age--the number of years of my age.
I then told it to rap my wife's age, and it rapped thirty times, which is her exact age; several of us counted it at the same time.
I then requested it to rap when I mentioned the sum of money for which it was murdered.
Then I locked the door and bolted it while the laughs of my neighbours greeted Mister Rap as he fell.
I opened the door again abruptly and dispatched a kick to the spine of Mister Rap that promptly sent him reeling down more than a score of stairs: "That's what's happening!
This abominable Rap had driven me completely round the bend.
The words were scarce out of his mouth when we heard a loud rap on the door, which I opened to discover a Swiss fellow in a private livery, come to say that his master begged the young gentleman would sup with him.
There's no girl in Boston that I care a rap for," he said.
He stood rubbing his hands together, and it seemed to William Wetherell that the Speaker did not rap as sharply with his gavel as he had upon other occasions.
One thing about Chiltern that's to be admired is that he's never cared a rap what people think.
And yet she will fly up the stairs to don a fine gown at the first rap of the knocker.
If there is any hostile influence which prevents your communicating with us, rap twice.
His rap was sharp, quick and decided, quite a characteristic rap.
If the obstacle is one that can be removed, rap once.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rap" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
