chitchat

Example Sentences

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After about five minutes of chitchat, we landed on a satisfying framework.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Now, generational analysis seems to be everywhere; from TV comedies like Hacks and Only Murders in the Building, to office-place chitchat.

From BBC • May 17, 2026

Spend enough time around cybersecurity types, and questions like the one above might feel like lighthearted chitchat.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

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

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2025

Heaps of things have happened, but I often think I’m boring you with my dreary chitchat and that you’d just as soon have fewer letters.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank