How to Use palaver in a Sentence

palaver

noun

• Enough of this palaver. We have a lot to discuss.
• Then the palaver over the meeting blew up in early April.
  — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, National Review, 17 Nov. 2020
• Too often the book gets bogged down in the same kind of narcissistic palaver Daum derides.
  — Rosa Brooks, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2019
• This is why the U.K. has suffered through four years of palaver about various Brexit deals, many of which wouldn’t have meant Brexit in any material sense.
  — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2020
• More partisan palaver, far from courageous, far from laudable.
  — Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Aug. 2017
• The likely political purpose of this palaver is to make personal taxes—the kind voters care deeply about—easier to raise in short order.
  — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 3 June 2021
• Perhaps one upside of the palaver is that Radnor residents have become more politically engaged.
  — New York Times, 30 June 2021
• That the palaver was enough to promptly warrant Congressional hearings is testament to just how removed the investing public is from today’s market mechanics.
  — Roya Wolverson, Quartz, 18 Feb. 2021
• Mr. Egarr’s playing was as entertaining as his palaver, showing a cleanliness, refinement and style all too rare among harpsichordists, but never at the cost of bountiful fantasy.
  — James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2017
• Enough of this palaver. We have a lot to discuss.
• Then the palaver over the meeting blew up in early April.
  — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, National Review, 17 Nov. 2020
• Too often the book gets bogged down in the same kind of narcissistic palaver Daum derides.
  — Rosa Brooks, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2019
• This is why the U.K. has suffered through four years of palaver about various Brexit deals, many of which wouldn’t have meant Brexit in any material sense.
  — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2020
• More partisan palaver, far from courageous, far from laudable.
  — Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Aug. 2017
• The likely political purpose of this palaver is to make personal taxes—the kind voters care deeply about—easier to raise in short order.
  — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 3 June 2021
• Perhaps one upside of the palaver is that Radnor residents have become more politically engaged.
  — New York Times, 30 June 2021
• That the palaver was enough to promptly warrant Congressional hearings is testament to just how removed the investing public is from today’s market mechanics.
  — Roya Wolverson, Quartz, 18 Feb. 2021
• Mr. Egarr’s playing was as entertaining as his palaver, showing a cleanliness, refinement and style all too rare among harpsichordists, but never at the cost of bountiful fantasy.
  — James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2017

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