was prattling
- past progressive of prattle.
Example Sentences
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But as my sister was prattling on, I saw red.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2016
In 1914 he was prattling in a letter to his brother about "this great, fundamentally decent peoples' war," sentiments he largely retracted a few years later in a tortured essay.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gloria had a grip about the robot’s neck that would have asphyxiated any creature but one of metal, and was prattling nonsense in half-hysterical frenzy.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
He turned from them to a woman that was prattling near by, and at once entered her life, it seemed.
From Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories by Gibbon, Perceval
Mrs. Cassley was prattling on, but her voice was merely a haze of sound to him.
From The Clue of the Twisted Candle by Wallace, Edgar
