Sentence examples for brattle from inspiring English sources
verb
To rattle; to make a scampering noise
- 1972: Him too I hate, the same as I hate these brainless budding trees, these brattling birds. — John Gardner, Grendel (London 1972, p. 6)
"Anne hid in the basement to avoid the cocktail brattle".
(I think I reached my acme with "brattle," which boasts five or six, depending on whether you ever call your child a rat).
Thou need na start awa sae hasty Wi bickering brattle!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty, Wi' bickering brattle!
/ One needs tae eat ye hasty / Wi bickering brattle!
From his Manhattan office and the drafting board in his Staten Island home came the drawings for the early commissions in Springfield, the State Asylum for the Insane in Buffalo, New York (designed 1870 72), and the Brattle Square (1870 72) and Trinity (1872 77) churches in Boston.
Every morning in 1768, he and Abigail, to their intense annoyance, were woken by the sounds of fife and drum, the soldiers making a great show in Brattle Square, in front of their house.
Still, unless rates are linked to the level of demand, much of the benefit of smart grids will fail to materialise, says Mr Faruqui of the Brattle Group.
All told, estimates the Brattle Group, a consultancy, the benefits from a smart grid could amount to $227 billion over the next 40 years in America alone.
This could cut power demand by 10-15% during peak hours, estimates Ahmad Faruqui of the Brattle Group, a consultancy more than twice the reduction likely to be achieved by just giving customers real-time information about their usage.
By 2017 or so, reckons Brattle Group, a consultancy, coal use will stabilise again, as gas demand finally makes gas prices dearer than coal.
