Example Sentences

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While visiting Bonn with the President in July, he appeared with a new German friend in a manner so cozy that it immediately made the Washington Star's tittle-tattling "Ear" column.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was no card playing, "quarreling with or whipping wives . . . tittle-tattling ... or running about."

From Time Magazine Archive

I heard water tittle-tattling away in deep shadow below.

From Twilight in Italy by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Is there not milking-time, when you are going to bed, or kiln-hole, to whistle off these secrets, but you must be tittle-tattling before all our guests? 'tis well they are whispering.

From The Winter's Tale by Shakespeare, William

Who could have been tittle-tattling about me so?

From Eyes Like the Sea by Jókai, Mór