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While we had chattered excitedly over the phone about my return, once we reunited in person, our past confronted us like a very large elephant in a very small room.

From New York Times • May 13, 2022

I thought of the cold tin tubs of East Karhide that I had chattered and shuddered in last summer, the ice-ringed basin in my Erhenrang room.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Once seated on the side of the bed in the room that had been hers, she had been seized with a chill so violent that her teeth had chattered in her head.

From The Land of Promise by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

She could never have told him all this if her sister had been there, and Captain Benyon must promise never to reveal to Kate how she had chattered.

From Georgina's Reasons by James, Henry

She had chattered away the whole time in her light-hearted, inconsequent fashion, and at last asked him a question to which she required more than a nod of the head in reply.

From The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies by Cullum, Ridgwell