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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“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
He will prate of chest measurements; regard golf with contempt; and speak of the West as God's country.
From Gigolo by Edna Ferber
P.S.—My dear H.,—The date of my postscript "will prate to you of my whereabouts."
From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 by Rowland Edmund Prothero, Baron Ernle
After that let him who will prate of the feeling of identity and the consciousness of self.
From Marguerite by J. Lewis (James Lewis) May
"Ah! if prattling will please you, princess," replied Leander, "I will prate from morning till night."
From The Little Lame Prince by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
