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

“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

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

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2025

“Say, Faucet old chap, come join me in my study for a cigar. Too much chitchat going on in here, what?”

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood