gossip

Get hooked on some sports gossip: In the dog days of the NFL season, we need something to look forward to.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026

After three orderly decades as a journalist and gossip columnist, Jeannette Walls delivered a shock to readers with this account of her chaotic upbringing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

This type of gossip is protecting the weak.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

People with well-recognised Cuban-American surnames – like Bacardi and Babun – chat around the pool about the lamentable state of the island's economy, and share titbits of gossip about the latest political rumblings.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Usually, I’m a sucker for gossip, but grown-up drama is exhausting.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

She smiles, laughs, cries, makes jokes, stomps her foot, flirts and gossips about other women with a girlfriend.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

Much of the chatter never moves past a relatively small, dishy circle of political gossips because the supposed misdeeds, while titillating, can’t stand up to rigorous scrutiny.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

The chapters fly at the reader in column-length bursts, and the perspective bops about from that of our heroine to neighborhood gossips, savvy editors and that unforgettable mother-in-law.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

Tisa’s reenactments, commentary, and energy earned her a comment from a viewer who dubbed her “the new and improved Wendy Williams,” signaling a changing future for even legacy gossips and talk show hosts.

From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2025

At least, that’s how our family gossips about it.

From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio

Because the home has been staged, buyers won’t be able to sit at the very kitchen table where the Kardashian clan gossiped over salads, or the poolside lounges where they often sunned themselves.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 17, 2026

Busy markets sold butchered meats and fast-wilting vegetables, horse carts clattered, children shouted, and men and women gossiped in coffeehouses and read from printed newspapers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

Some are afraid that if they reveal too much they could be gossiped about.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2024

Right now, they gossiped as in any other break room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2023

I sat there grinning while Kevin and Susan gabbed and gossiped over their sandwiches.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

Paige and Marye did embroidery and gossipped together under the big crystal chandelier while their mother read aloud to them from "Great Expectations," which was running serially in Harper's Weekly.

From Ailsa Paige by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Have any of you gossipped like old women, either with him or with Deer Runner?”

From Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant by Mathew Joseph Holt

"Thou tellest him now dead," said Geirmund, "with whom we have gossipped this morning."

From The story of Burnt Njal From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga by George Webbe Dasent

Her father, I suppose, wished to avoid the chance of her marriage being gossipped about.

From A Canadian Heroine, Volume 3 A Novel by Mrs. Harry Coghill

His characters are the friends and acquaintances of everybody,—quoted, referred to, gossipped about, discussed, criticized, as though they were actual beings.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 07, May, 1858 by Various

There is no reality in which gossiping about someone’s weight loss, especially on social media, is a way toward helping or healing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

As rumours spread that Anne Boleyn, the English queen, is about to be executed, three working-class women in Essex sit around drinking, gossiping and wondering what it all means for them.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

I felt like he was gossiping about me to a lot of people, and during one review, it became clear that he was.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 28, 2026

“You hear people gossiping in the locker room, or you hear about cool art shows that are happening or dance parties,” says Hansen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026

All apes show a keen interest in such social information, but they have trouble gossiping effectively.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Robinson and Frances Glandney, who married in 2002, were part of a group of longtime pals and she knew they’d start gossipping about her and the legendary singer-songwriter.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

It will not, I hope, be considered a piece of gossipping personality if I allude to a fact which must, some day or other, be part of literary history.

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

Return to Table of Contents 'Wine and Walnuts' was a good title for a gossipping book; 'Claret and Olives' is a better.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 434 Volume 17, New Series, April 24, 1852 by William Chambers

Though our family was a veritable lunatic asylum of poets, no one cared to translate the good creature's gossipping garrulity into verse.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi

"Peter!" said Walter, struggling painfully to recover his composure; "Is there more in what you have just been telling me, than mere talk and gossipping nonsense?"

From L'Arrabiata and Other Tales by Paul Heyse