Example Sentences

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As thou thou prating Raven white by nature being bred,

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2016

They have many friends and a good sense of humor, and they spend little time prating about 'the good old days.'

From Time Magazine Archive

It embitters me altogether against scientists, who are always prating about their accuracy and fairmindedness.

From Time Magazine Archive

For why should a blockhead have one in ten For prating so long like a book-learned sot Till pudding and dumpling burn to a pot?

From Time Magazine Archive

“We have had women enough sacrificed to this sentimental, hypocritical prating about purity,” she wrote to her friend Lucretia Mott.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling