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24 example sentences for PRATTLE, such as:

1. Don't prattle about your theory.
2. Amy's happy prattle became intolerable.
3. By night it will sing, and by day Cosette will prattle.
4. Lou prattled on about various trivialities till I wanted to scream.
5. I can't afford to bear the deep feeling is the burden, sweet prattle.

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prattle
 v.  speak about unimportant matters rapidly and incessantly; talk artlessly and childishly
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  They will not climb my knee, nor prattle in my ear, nor answer to my smile, but stand apart, and eye me strangely.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE
2  Vronsky heard with pleasure this light-hearted prattle of a pretty woman, agreed with her, gave her half-joking counsel, and altogether dropped at once into the tone habitual to him in talking to such women.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 34
3  He passed hours in watching her dressing and undressing her doll, and in listening to her prattle.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
4  By night it will sing, and by day Cosette will prattle.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
5  Amy's happy prattle became intolerable.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
6  Of the swiftly scampering child, all that now remained were two tiny feet, inadequate to her weight, and a tendency to prattle happily and aimlessly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  "O no, not at all," she said, returning to the boy's prattle.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian
8  She disliked the stiff- necked India and the foolish prattling Honey and knew they disliked her equally, but she could not stay away from them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  As he marched along the little branch-hung roadway among his prattling companions this vision of cruelty brooded over him.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
10  If there ever were a pair of twins in danger of being utterly spoiled by adoration, it was these prattling Brookes.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
11  Side by side on the narrow shawl knelt the two wanderers, the little prattling child and the reckless, hardened adventurer.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
12  She liked gossip better than anything else in the world, even more than she liked the pleasures of the table, and she prattled on for hours about other people's affairs in a harmless kindly way.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
13  Aunt Pitty prattled on happily, pleased as a child at having an audience.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
14  Sometimes he prattled, words coming unconsciously from him in grotesque exclamations.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
15  She expressed pleasure, too, at finding a sister among her new acquaintance; and she prattled to Catherine, and kissed her, and ran about with her, and gave her quantities of presents, at the beginning.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence:
1  I can't afford to bear the deep feeling is the burden, sweet prattle just happened to cash lies.
2  I can't afford to bear the deep feeling is the burden, sweet prattle.
3  Don't prattle about your theory.
4  Baby John used to prattle on and on about the cats and his ball and the Cookie Monster.
5  By her simplicity, gay prattle, and efforts to please, inspired me, in return, with a degree of attachment sufficient to make us both content in each other's society.
6  She'd have prattled on about her new job for the whole afternoon if I'd let her.
7  Lou prattled on about various trivialities till I wanted to scream.