Example Sentences

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Here he is, prating and preening like a parrot on a stump about the need to renew American civilization.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ralph, thy news has stirred me into vaporing, and the man who built the Orb mill is prating like a child.

From Lorimer of the Northwest by Dewey, Alfred James

I have written already the longest letter that I ever wrote in my life: yet it is prating; and to you, to whom I love to prate.

From The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Richardson, Samuel

O thou bright moon! thou object of my first love! thou shalt not escape an invocation, although perchance at this very moment some varlet sonnetteer is prating of "the boy Endymion" and "thy silver bow."

From Vivian Grey by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield