How to Use chit in a Sentence
chit
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The chit-chat and the lurking and the literally pumping the hand soap?
—Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2023
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Now, enough chit chat: To find out which haircuts reigned supreme in 2020, just keep on scrolling.
—Elizabeth Denton, Allure, 30 Nov. 2020
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The kids sweep floors, collect eggs from the chicken coop, chit chat with the animals.
—Jesse Remedios, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2022
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Save any chit-chat and small talk for another time -- instead, make an effort to get right to the heart of the matter.
—Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2022
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For apes and monkeys, chit chat is more common between besties.
—Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2022
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The two go past the pews and up the stairs of the rectory, where the rest of the attendees are already gnoshing on cupcakes and chit-chatting.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2022
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All the while, the regulars laugh, chit-chat and shower Roop and me with encouragement.
—David Schechter, Haley Rush, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2023
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Roh said the salon owner often comes by for lunch or to wind down over dinner and chit-chat in their native tongue.
—Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 16 May 2022
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The podcast voice is a little lower than my, natural chit-chat.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 2 Mar. 2023
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After some chit chat, Janet reached over and stroked my fiance’s face (from his jaw to his temple) without uttering a word.
—Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 29 June 2022
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Ken Regan, the leading expert on chess cheating detection, gave him a clean chit, too.
—Quartz, 22 Oct. 2022
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To lose whole freezers is to lose all the work that went into filling them, the friendships nurtured by bored chit chat in a bird blind, the lessons imparted to youngsters learning to pick fish from a salmon net.
—Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2022
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After tidying up the room and doing a final once-over, the 52-year-old was done chit-chatting and impatient to start his day, collecting recyclables.
—Genaro Molina, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2022
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Seriously, their little chit-chat and iconic fist-bump moment (which was caught by a sneaky photographer) have already gone viral in a major way.
—Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 6 Feb. 2023
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In one exercise, volunteers form a circle around someone acting as a recruiter, practicing the chit-chat common to networking events.
—Lindsay Ellis, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
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Hogg specializes in—awkward pauses and benign-sounding chit-chat that tiptoes around deeper, darker feelings.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2022
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If a woman makes a reference to her own pregnancy, then yes — congratulate and briefly share your positive parenting experience with her, but the time for more leisurely chit chat is after the interview is wrapped.
—Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, 26 Mar. 2020
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The rest, according to these studies, is spent on other activities: checking social media, reading news websites, chit-chatting with colleagues about non-work topics, making non-work calls, and even looking for other jobs.
—Gleb Tsipursky, Fortune, 4 June 2022
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Checking her iPhone and chit-chatting with a playing partner amid a recent rain delay, Hailey Davidson is just another golfer passing time and alleviating tedium during a tournament stoppage.
—Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 27 June 2021
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The chit-chat and the lurking and the literally pumping the hand soap?
—Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2023
-
Now, enough chit chat: To find out which haircuts reigned supreme in 2020, just keep on scrolling.
—Elizabeth Denton, Allure, 30 Nov. 2020
-
The kids sweep floors, collect eggs from the chicken coop, chit chat with the animals.
—Jesse Remedios, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2022
-
Save any chit-chat and small talk for another time -- instead, make an effort to get right to the heart of the matter.
—Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2022
-
For apes and monkeys, chit chat is more common between besties.
—Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2022
-
The two go past the pews and up the stairs of the rectory, where the rest of the attendees are already gnoshing on cupcakes and chit-chatting.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2022
-
All the while, the regulars laugh, chit-chat and shower Roop and me with encouragement.
—David Schechter, Haley Rush, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2023
-
Roh said the salon owner often comes by for lunch or to wind down over dinner and chit-chat in their native tongue.
—Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 16 May 2022
-
The podcast voice is a little lower than my, natural chit-chat.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 2 Mar. 2023
-
After some chit chat, Janet reached over and stroked my fiance’s face (from his jaw to his temple) without uttering a word.
—Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 29 June 2022
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Ken Regan, the leading expert on chess cheating detection, gave him a clean chit, too.
—Quartz, 22 Oct. 2022
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