i Register
In some senses, rats is marked as informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
distinct, last, many, outside, small
There were many rats in the old warehouse basement.
VERB + RATS
abounds, caught, doesn't, don't, eat, exterminate, found, like
The poison doesn't kill rats as quickly as the exterminator promised.
RATS + NOUN
i've, mice, plague
I've never seen so many rats plague the neighborhood since they closed the old warehouse.
PREP.
from, on, on, with, with
The old warehouse was infested with rats that chewed through the wooden beams.
ADV.
rapidly
The rats rapidly disappeared into the walls when we turned on the kitchen light.