prate
verb (used without object)
to talk excessively and pointlessly; babble.
will prate
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future tenseof prate.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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He will prate of chest measurements; regard golf with contempt; and speak of the West as God's country.
From Gigolo by Edna Ferber
Thus peevish eld, discoursing by a fire, Amidst their cups will prate how men aspire.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various
Thus Horace in the house will prate, "Sir, we, the ministers of state."
From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by William Ernst Browning
“For fools will prate o’ right and wrang, While knaves laugh in their sleeve; But wha blaws best the horn shall win, I’ll spier nae courtier’s leave.”
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
And then you will drink your fill again, and I will drink with you, and you will prate nonsense.
From The Crushed Flower and Other Stories by Herman Bernstein
