Example Sentences
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"With Obama, we won an election that everyone said couldn't be won," he prattled on in a speech in Washington, D.C. last week.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2023
My mother cooked and prattled, my grandfather was severe but kindly, the farm prospered.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2017
Had he known what attracted her to him initially, what propelled her to listen so patiently as he prattled on about his experiments and his home laboratory, he would have been mortified.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 15, 2016
In the trial that ensued, prosecutors argued that Valle really meant to do at least some of what he’d prattled on about in late-night binges at the keyboard.
From Slate ● Dec. 10, 2015
She ran on, through a tangled fringe of gossip, never seeing that these names were alien to him, they meant nothing, and that as she prattled unaware he grew colder and more silent.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
