- present participle of prattle.
prattling
Example Sentences
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A rabbit in full formal attire, prattling on about his tardiness?
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2025
Devieilhe, with a smooth tone like light cream, gave Constance’s prattling utterances an air of ingenuous wisdom, beautifully balancing Pérez’s tightly wound, self-conscious Blanche.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2023
I used my prattling pate and said, “You’re beautiful.”
From The Verge ● Apr. 14, 2022
A natural modesty prevents him from prattling on about himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2021
Perhaps he preferred that anyway, she thought; she must seem a little prattling cub, only just past babyhood, in the eyes of an armored bear.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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