Examples of pitter-patter

• My bare feet pitter-pattered across the wooden floor.

• When I see mountains my heart pitter-patters, they promise adventure.

• Evening rain pitter-patters off the metal roof.

• When you walked in, my heart went pitter-patter.

• We drank tea while watching the raindrops fall pitter-patter.

• Don't grow up expecting to make fellows' hearts go pitter-patter !

• A phrase is then passed in echo around the choirs before being subsumed in a huge cluster chord, which then dissolves in spoken pitter-patter.

• The maggots, starved for oxygen, writhe and jump in the bag, creating a pitter-patter sound.