Sentence examples for there were rats from inspiring English sources

When it happened to him, he decided there were rats in the walls.

There were rats in the attic anyway.

There were rats on the bottom and pigeons on the top".

In fact, there were rats all over the menu, so to speak.

It didn't really have a roof and there were rats running about the place.

I mean, there were rats in my bed and things like that".

So it seems there are rats in City Hall — but not the kind you may have in mind.

Had there been rat nests among the ivy shoots and filth swept up that day?

"My son got sick because of the black mold, we both have asthma … and there were rat holes everywhere".

It was filthy, there were ants all over the floor and in the corner there were rat droppings.

I don't mean ratty in a figurative sense, either: there were rat traps tucked into most of the corners and nooks, and they weren't ironic.