How to Use prattle in a Sentence

prattle

1 of 2 verb

• They prattled on into the night, discussing school, music, and friends.
• David prattled about the weather and asked if Harry had seen anything good on TV.
  — cincinnati.com, 14 Jan. 2020
• My aunt would prattle on about her kindergarten students, my uncles about their work as firefighters and linesmen.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• Browns training camp stands six weeks away, so there's no mandate to prattle on quite yet about the annual quarterback competition.
  — Zack Meisel, cleveland.com, 14 June 2017
• While some buffoon is prattling at length, its lips moving weirdly on a low-polygon face, this is usually the moment that your feet hurt or that your headset's face cushion itches.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 23 Mar. 2020
• Someone is eating with his or her child or family, just having a quiet dinner, and shouting at them, screaming, demanding and prattling on about all these points.
  — Fox News, 26 July 2018
• The book, which weighs in at more than 950 pages, is sloppy, self-indulgent and often eye-crossingly dull — the sound of one man prattling away, not for the reader, but for himself and some distant recording angel of history.
  — Anna Silman, The Cut, 27 July 2017
• Middle Sister prattled on about how an atom having six principal quantum numbers can yield several emission lines, or some such.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• In a city that prattles endlessly about celebrating diversity, the Seaport stands as just the opposite.
  — Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2018
• The chapter is mostly made up of faintly (and not-so-faintly) ignorant rednecks who prattle on about their own superiority and sense of grievance that their pure white ways of life are being distorted and corrupted by the Jews and the blacks.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 15 May 2018
• The ensuing dinner scene demonstrates some of Feiffer's best writing, as Patsy's parents prattle on like the most memorable of the cartoonist's vapid authority figures.
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 14 Aug. 2017
• Instead of acting cool and sophisticated our narrator prattled like a flibbertigibbet.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
• They prattled on into the night, discussing school, music, and friends.
• David prattled about the weather and asked if Harry had seen anything good on TV.
  — cincinnati.com, 14 Jan. 2020
• My aunt would prattle on about her kindergarten students, my uncles about their work as firefighters and linesmen.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• Browns training camp stands six weeks away, so there's no mandate to prattle on quite yet about the annual quarterback competition.
  — Zack Meisel, cleveland.com, 14 June 2017
• While some buffoon is prattling at length, its lips moving weirdly on a low-polygon face, this is usually the moment that your feet hurt or that your headset's face cushion itches.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 23 Mar. 2020
• Someone is eating with his or her child or family, just having a quiet dinner, and shouting at them, screaming, demanding and prattling on about all these points.
  — Fox News, 26 July 2018
• The book, which weighs in at more than 950 pages, is sloppy, self-indulgent and often eye-crossingly dull — the sound of one man prattling away, not for the reader, but for himself and some distant recording angel of history.
  — Anna Silman, The Cut, 27 July 2017
• Middle Sister prattled on about how an atom having six principal quantum numbers can yield several emission lines, or some such.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• In a city that prattles endlessly about celebrating diversity, the Seaport stands as just the opposite.
  — Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2018
• The chapter is mostly made up of faintly (and not-so-faintly) ignorant rednecks who prattle on about their own superiority and sense of grievance that their pure white ways of life are being distorted and corrupted by the Jews and the blacks.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 15 May 2018
• The ensuing dinner scene demonstrates some of Feiffer's best writing, as Patsy's parents prattle on like the most memorable of the cartoonist's vapid authority figures.
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 14 Aug. 2017
• Instead of acting cool and sophisticated our narrator prattled like a flibbertigibbet.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018

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prattle

2 of 2 noun

• No one has ever listened to me prattle on for this long before.
  — The Washington Post, AL.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• Her boys laughed at her pretensions, prattle, and lack of culture.
  — Longreads, 21 June 2017
• They are allowed to prattle on about vague problems in America.
  — Dom Giordano, Philly.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• Perhaps part of what Slobodchikoff deems prairie-dog language is just useless prattle.
  — Ferris Jabr, New York Times, 12 May 2017
• These questions — and the obsessive attention to mundane details like Mr. Kim’s wristwatch — may seem like the idle prattle of celebrity gossip.
  — New York Times, 29 June 2021
• Over the past several years, Carlson Stroud’s videos devolved from benign prattle about energy, God, and angels to drunken rants, dark threats, and apparent mistreatment of members.
  — Virginia Pelley, Marie Claire, 7 Sep. 2021
• Away from the incessant prattle of social media and the knee-jerk demands for harsh immediate action, a variety of perspectives was considered.
  — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2017
• No one has ever listened to me prattle on for this long before.
  — The Washington Post, AL.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• Her boys laughed at her pretensions, prattle, and lack of culture.
  — Longreads, 21 June 2017
• They are allowed to prattle on about vague problems in America.
  — Dom Giordano, Philly.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• Perhaps part of what Slobodchikoff deems prairie-dog language is just useless prattle.
  — Ferris Jabr, New York Times, 12 May 2017
• These questions — and the obsessive attention to mundane details like Mr. Kim’s wristwatch — may seem like the idle prattle of celebrity gossip.
  — New York Times, 29 June 2021
• Over the past several years, Carlson Stroud’s videos devolved from benign prattle about energy, God, and angels to drunken rants, dark threats, and apparent mistreatment of members.
  — Virginia Pelley, Marie Claire, 7 Sep. 2021
• Away from the incessant prattle of social media and the knee-jerk demands for harsh immediate action, a variety of perspectives was considered.
  — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2017

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