Sentence examples for a rat on from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a rat on" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to "ratting on" someone, which means to inform on or betray someone, but as it stands, it lacks clarity.
Example: "He decided to rat on his accomplices to save himself."
Alternatives: "inform on" or "snitch on".

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Not until the 1970's did I see a rat on the street, when I was forced one evening to stop in my tracks as one crossed my path on its way to the river.

A rat on the subway?

We will think of you the next time we see a rat on "Law and Order".

Think of you in your wheelchair and me with a rat on a platter, me all Bette Davis late-career screech".

Ms. Torres, who lives in the Baruch Houses on the Lower East Side, said she was attacked by a rat on June 29.

I noted that Rogan had a tattoo of a rat on his neck, a rat that had just been knifed and was crying.

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Open image in new window Fig. 5 Relative expression ratios (±SE) of RAGE in different tissues in base 2 log scale using BAC as the endogenous reference, Group A (rats on standard rat chow) as the calibrator and Group C (rats on HF/HS diet and GA) as the target.

Open image in new window Fig. 3 Relative expression ratios (±SE) of RAGE in different tissues in base 2 log scale using BAC as the endogenous reference, Group A (rats on standard rat chow) as the calibrator and Group B (rats on HF/HS diet) as the target (**p < 0.01 between groups).

For each replication, 100 first instars were placed on a rat cadaver on which one household product was spilled.

In 2012 an image of a parachuting rat on a Greville Street shop was destroyed by construction workers.

I may curse e-mail for destroying my workday, for turning me into a lab rat on a drug unable to stop clicking on "send-receive".

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