Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: pats
IPA transcription: [p'æts]
Usage examples
  • NOT PATS BUT SCRATCHES
  • Then Yuki Chan nestled close, and gave little pats of love and tried to listen.
  • Now return to one pat and one finger, repeat two pats and the holding up of two of his fingers, and three pats and three fingers.
  • A few sad tears does Betty shed.... She pats the pony, where or when She knows not.... happy Betty Foy! Oh, Johnny, never mind the doctor!'
  • Seemingly this left gave Duke three lightning little pats upon the right ear, but the change in his voice indicated that these were no love-taps.
  • Having established this system of response on his part to sensations perceived, it is not difficult to shift from the number of pats to the number of times he hears a noise.
  • At such times the water comes out of the places in her face that she looks out of, and she pats the fish on the back and makes soft sounds with her mouth to soothe it, and betrays sorrow and solicitude in a hundred ways.