Sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience

Usage examples of racket.

What if there were to be an article in the newspapers reporting that an apprentice from Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors had been arrested by the police in connection with some racket?

It was just the kind of racket they make at a horse show when a thrown rider gets back on a balky horse.

Pope, in the center of the picture, who is talking with the bonnetless Doge--talking tranquilly, too, although within twelve feet of them a man is beating a drum, and not far from the drummer two persons are blowing horns, and many horsemen are plunging and rioting about--indeed, twenty-two feet of this great work is all a deep and happy holiday serenity and Sunday-school procession, and then we come suddenly upon eleven and one-half feet of turmoil and racket and insubordination.

Treger in turn would convince Brassard that he had better rackets under his thumb than petty larceny.

Apparently the carbon monoxide detector that was causing such a racket was down there somewhere.

He listened for the sounds of anyone stirring inside the house trailer, but it was impossible to hear above the obstreperous racket of the guinea fowl.

COMEDIE HUMAINE SCENES DE LA VIE PRIVEE SCENES FROM PRIVATE LIFE La Maison du Chat-qui Pelote At the Sign of the Cat and Racket Le Bal de Sceaux The Ball at Sceaux La Bourse The Purse La Vendetta The Vendetta Mme.

He was a clever man, and soon had a nice racket going for himself, selling Persil certificates, clearances for Old Comrades, you know the sort of thing.

I managed to come up with some tennis rackets, balls, and net, and we paid the natives to stamp out a playable court.

Deneir the Prattler and Gond of the Forgestinking Breath, and even to Milil, Lord of Screeching Racket!

The projectionist booth is soundproof because inside the booth is the racket of sprockets snapping film past the lens at six feet a second, ten frames a foot, sixty frames a second snapping through, clattering Gatling-gun fire.

Somewhere along the stream a pileated woodpecker began drumming against a tree trunk in search of an insect snack and the racket startled a pair of prothonotary warblers from their roost in a nearby hackberry sapling.

It was given at the Racket Court Inn, in Sheepcote Street, by the Conservative electors of Ladywood Ward, to celebrate Mr.

If Brand was pulling a double cross, the best way to clip his wings would be to steal evidence that Spooner had turned over to him as a safeguard when the art racket was first formulated.

Kemper was convinced that Spooner was the masked leader of the art racket.