Example Sentences

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"Satish was getting phone calls and the telex machine was chattering away as well," remembers Baxter.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2024

In this particular moment, the 33-year-old actor was chattering about a new gaming app he'd tried the night before when he had to stop mid-detail to yank out a plastic bag.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2015

The last time I passed him, the glass front of his booth had been smashed, and he was chattering away, unfazed, wanting to read your fortune.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 27, 2015

In the days before the 2011 Tohoku quake and tsunami, which killed more than 18,000 people, seafloor instruments showed that the offshore fault responsible was chattering and slipping slowly.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 2, 2014

A group of girls was chattering toward a bus.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli