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His Polonius prates on foolishly without losing his essential dignity.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2022

An educational quack, Chesterfield prates of clean minds and bodies but has sold four of the school's five bathtubs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Styron himself prates endlessly about the sickness of the age. and Mason and Cass are obviously two of its sickest children.

From Time Magazine Archive

He prates of duty and discipline and chides Mrs. Alving on the libertarian tenor of the books she reads.

From Time Magazine Archive

It seems to me that every man I talk to prates vacantly about impossibilities.

From Destiny by Buck, Charles Neville