chitchat

Example Sentences

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“You’re walking down the road. You see a coffee spot, get some coffee. Then you chitchat and then keep walking and do the same thing all over and over again.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

“She can continue to chitchat with Kermit. And that was really charming for her and certainly charming for us. And how can you not have fun on a set like that?”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

The school system’s chief financial officer, for example, doesn’t want to chitchat and won’t share data until he knows what you’ll do with it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025

I knocked and walked into the room, starting with the usual idle chitchat.

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2025

Their chitchat goes deeper, and as they talk, Jo’s heart, numb no longer, opens up to Theo.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman