What's the difference between rattling and wondrous?

Rattling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rattle

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In EastEnders , the mystery surrounding the identity of Kat's secret squeeze continues amid the grinding of narrative levers and the death rattle of overflogged script-horses.
  • (2) While none of the fears that have rattled markets are yet realised, the relentless focus on possible risks will likely see another soggy Asia-Pacific trading session.
  • (3) Kim has ruled the country since his father, Kim Jong-il, died in 2011, and his early tenure has been marked by sabre-rattling and repeated nuclear tests.
  • (4) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
  • (5) Klitschko is a self-confessed control freak; so Fury was trying to rattle him out of his rhythm.
  • (6) Partners to the drug-treated mice showed a decrease in the occurrence of offensive ambivalence and of the element "rattle".
  • (7) (Peter Adamik) The Order of Merit (OM) awarded to individuals of greatest achievement in the fields of the arts, learning, literature and science, goes to the conductor Sir Simon Rattle , and to the heart surgeon Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub.
  • (8) Rattled investors brace for big week as Federal Reserve considers rate increase Read more The Dow Jones industrial average fell 114 points, or 0.7%, to 16,528.
  • (9) Directional responses did not differ from the standard when rattle bursts were repeated at a rate of 20 per second for 1 s (experiment 1).
  • (10) Rattle said his performances in these later years were transcendent.
  • (11) A s Michael Howard’s flag-waving, sabre-rattling, Madrid-baiting intervention made clear, Gibraltar can occupy an oddly atavistic place in some corners of Britain’s collective psyche.
  • (12) Petraeus and his men would make unannounced visits in the middle of the night to Ljiljana Karadžić, the fugitive’s wife, with the aim of rattling her with a show of bravado about his imminent capture, in the hope she would rush to warn him, and give away his location.
  • (13) In the mid-1990s, when the movement's influence on HTB was at its height, I visited a Chelsea church run by Nicky Lee, one of the men who converted Welby at Cambridge, and when the Holy Spirit started knocking people down, I'd hear the distinct rattle of pearls when the young women fainted to the floor.
  • (14) 9.33pm BST 73 min: Pedro this time looks for Torres in behind – but his pass rattles straight into the shins of Francisco Silva.
  • (15) He has taken various elements of the war, and translated their brutality into elegiac works, as with Freedom Qashoush Symphony, a delicate song which starts with rattled off gunfire, the symphony culminates in an urgent instrumental cry of freedom, inspired by Ibrahim al-Qashoush, an early symbol of rebel martyrdom.
  • (16) Juventus 1-3 Barcelona | Champions League final match report Read more He redeemed himself soon after with a lunging challenge to break up another attack but Juventus overall looked rattled.
  • (17) The city appeared, according to a report in the Daily Mirror, “like a battlefield with blazing houses, hordes of refugees, dead cattle and horses and the rattle of automatic weapons”.
  • (18) Accusing Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, of “sabre-rattling”, he said the UK commitment to a new Nato rapid reaction force is to be extended by three years, with 1,000 troops sent next year and 3,000 in 2017.
  • (19) A telecom engineer who has not been able to find work, he rattled off statistics: unemployment in the province is 42% – the highest in Spain – rising to 69% for those under the age of 30.
  • (20) Paresh Davdra, co-founder of RationalFX, said the situation was rattling investors and raising parallels with the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.

Wondrous


Definition:

  • (n.) In a wonderful or surprising manner or degree; wonderfully.
  • (a.) Wonderful; astonishing; admirable; marvelous; such as excite surprise and astonishment; strange.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That moment, however, before the blossom breaks, is perhaps the most wondrous.
  • (2) The second series of BBC1’s hit drama Happy Valley ended on Tuesday night , bowing out in a wondrous blaze of confrontation, perceptive resolution and poignant revelation.
  • (3) To put it another way, I trust that among the properties of this wondrous device will be the ability to make me invisible.
  • (4) The signs are that children's films are coming round to the idea of strong female heroes, even if Studio Ghibli still remains a wondrous anomaly.
  • (5) The Pulitzer-winning novelist Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, joined the campaign "because censorship is the primal enemy of the artist and of a democratic society.
  • (6) Space folk call these EVAs (short for extra-vehicular activity), but it is clearly the glamour job – and it excites the astronauts, who experience perhaps the most wondrous view that is ever experienced by anyone.
  • (7) Bale only threatened intermittently now, another wondrous free-kick from him in the 69th minute hurtling inches wide.
  • (8) Critics feast on Hayley's straight-talking manner, her Oasis trouser suits and her neck scarves, like she's some sort of wondrous oddity.
  • (9) Their clockwork cities are ever more immaculate, but Morin admits they fall short on the people front: the sense of a city as a wondrous, unconducted symphony of individual minds.
  • (10) Scattering out around the goals and small pitches informal games are played in mixed groups as pretty much every kid here takes a turn to demonstrate their range of tricks, traps and flicks on that wondrous green shag.
  • (11) If we get another year of this, we’ll be in an absolute world of hurt Col McKenzie By an accident of geography, the tourist operators say, the most wondrous sites for public viewing, which tend to fall on the edge of the continental shelf near cooler, deeper waters, are the ones also spared the worst damage from bleaching.
  • (12) But far beyond his family, he leaves a host of disconsolate people, from his closest friends to those whose only acquaintance was through what he wrote and said, who know they have lost a rare, wondrously talented and wholly original man.
  • (13) How long the honeymoon would last was anyone’s guess, but it was wondrous to behold.
  • (14) Ed Balls (@edballsmp) Ed Balls April 28, 2011 Now Ed Balls Day is actually a thing, as users mark the anniversary of this wondrous event by... er... tweeting Ed Balls.
  • (15) I arrived late and as I made my way to the audience through the plastic smiles and plastic cups I heard the rolling, wondrous resonance of a female vocal.
  • (16) But hats off to the TV coverage that accompanied the story, showing us what that ancient and wondrous Turkish civilisation was all about.
  • (17) In formative years for my generation, City played enlightened football, won the League Cup at Wembley with a wondrous Dennis Tueart overhead kick in 1976 , and played in European competitions on those starry midweek nights.
  • (18) When I was little he embellished the story with suitably wondrous detail – the mysterious howling he'd heard at night, the yeti footprints he'd seen in the snow – and even his antiquated climbing gear, all cracked leather and polished wood, seemed like artefacts from an age of greater magic.
  • (19) He was a giant heart, a fireball friend, a wondrous gift from the gods.
  • (20) It is a wondrous experience, worth the competitive wait.

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