prate
Example Sentences
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You need to hold your nose through the caps on “Resenters” and the verb prate, but the professor has a point.
From Slate • Oct. 17, 2019
He’ll bray, he’ll bate, he’ll prate, he’ll Berate, and he’ll inveigh, Then once we’ve been diverted, he’ll cause a new melee.
From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2018
This two-hour prate across Greek gods, gold-digging moles and burglar horses is amusing enough, but doesn't feel like it's for now, or for us.
From The Guardian • May 8, 2013
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving.
From Salon • Apr. 10, 2011
‘None of yer prate, now,’ say the surgeons, ‘there’s wan thing which can be done, and that same thing is to keep from all unnatural excitement from this time forward.’
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Vocabulary lists containing prate
The Tragedy of Macbeth
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