Ah, just for fun: People take up enough column inches with other crap no one wants to see:
How to Use rat in a Sentence
rat
noun
Definition of rat
Synonyms for rat
I can't believe that rat turned us in to the police!
Every night he goes to work out with the other gym rats.
No one understands why she's with a rat like him.
Are there rats or mice on cruise ships?
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Nathan Diller, USA Today, 6 May 2026
That ****** is a rat ****** cap.
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Dan Raby, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
More than likely a mouse or rat.
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Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
The rain, or the rats, had made holes in all the flour sacks.
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Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
These are like dollar store rats.
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Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
The rat tail, his little jabs here and there.
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Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
Are rats cute, creepy, or a matter of genre?
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 21 Oct. 2025
There are rats in the yard from the orange tree.
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Joan Morris, Mercury News, 18 May 2026
Now, any creature that eats rats is a friend of mine.
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Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026
For her, yes, the noise, yes, the dirt, yes, the heat"whoops, a rat!
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D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
The risk of seeing a rat or mouse on your next cruise is, too.
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Nathan Diller, USA Today, 6 May 2026
Not a gym rat but want to burn off the late-night snacks and buffet bites?
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Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 30 Jan. 2024
These posts referred to the witness as a rat and as a snitch.
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Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2026
Both old friends had fond memories of rats.
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Bethy Squires, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026
Stop these rats by installing a locking gas cap.
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Josh Max, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
Noe returned to the wharf and slung the dead rat across the water.
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Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
In one, an empty egg crate was filled with newborn rats.
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Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
One of the rats available for adoption.
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Neal Riley, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
On one side stood a dozen or so cages occupied by snow-white rats.
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Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
The human cells wound up making up one-sixth of the rats' brains.
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Harold Maass, The Week, 24 Feb. 2023
VanDam hopes the craze fades, the crowds ebb and the rat hole can stay.
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Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
Lali actively hunts mice, rats, and birds.
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Tao Lin, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
In the meantime, traffic and rats.
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Ben Smith, semafor.com, 5 Jan. 2026
The two cats stayed at the house but also roamed outside to help with the rats.
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Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 4 July 2026
Short of these kinds of changes, no amount of rat poison can fix the problem.
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Arkansas Online, 20 Jan. 2026
Squirrel poop is about half an inch long, but a little rounder than rat poop.
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Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 1 July 2026
That way, the rat has to work at getting the nut, which will trigger the trap.
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Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2024
