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While there are plenty of sounds to choose from, our favorites included the gentle patter of rainfall, which masked a bed partner’s snores.

In the patter around, and woven into, his brisk piano reading of “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” he recalled his late friend and longtime bandmate Clarence Clemons.

Demi had been keeping up a soft patter of chat, but just now she wasn’t sure what to say.

“Without knowing it, during the kite chases I was learning how to get around — by sensing the currents of air and by listening to the patter of feet on a roof, to the scrapes of shoes along a wall,” he wrote.

The scenes are succinct, by and large; the patter of the characters rolls right along, whether you catch their drift or not.

But feverish speculation and the constant patter of Vaudevillian innuendo came to overshadow more serious business.

Her father, Frederick Dalziel, was British and with a bearing and patter that suggested far more wealth than he had.

You pretty much can't get a better absurdist parody of politicians' vapid sure-is-nice-to-be-here patter than that.

My heart kept up its pitter-patter as I continued reading down the thread.

The short steps patter on the bridge connecting the upper rotunda with the cell-house, and pass along the gallery.

When the carriage-door was shut and the driver was mounting his box, the same old patter attracted my attention.

Weston looked up sharply as a patter of approaching footsteps rose out of the shadows behind him.

At that moment there was the sound of a scream, then the patter of running feet in the court below.

Let others who have more sin on their souls, and are more frighted by priests' patter, go if they list.