prating

Example Sentences

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As thou thou prating Raven white by nature being bred,

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2016

For why should a blockhead have one in ten For prating so long like a book-learned sot Till pudding and dumpling burn to a pot?

From Time Magazine Archive

They have many friends and a good sense of humor, and they spend little time prating about 'the good old days.'

From Time Magazine Archive

As the radiant lady fought over by the prating parson she married and the mewling poet she bewitched, Actress Cornell long ago found one of her most triumphant roles.

From Time Magazine Archive

“We have had women enough sacrificed to this sentimental, hypocritical prating about purity,” she wrote to her friend Lucretia Mott.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling