prattle

Mr. Friedman’s book is full of technocorporate prattle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

I can’t think of many, but if you ask any “SNL” diehard — even just a regular viewer — about Michaels, they’ll likely prattle off some fun facts to you.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026

Sick, awesome, amazing, I continued to prattle on.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025

The characters chatter and prattle about vampire lore and Anne Rice, “True Blood,” “Twilight” and “Nosferatu.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2024

They remain inside the image ring, snow falling softly on their hair and beards, and except for their forms, their prattle, the town is dead.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

I think often about his 2014 appearance on “WTF with Marc Maron” because you can hear Maron’s frustration at Mulaney’s composure build while he prattles charmingly on.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2023

Rachel, who narrates the novel, prattles on about her love life, her parents, and the cartoonishly loud suits of her journalist boss.

From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2020

As he spirals downward, he prattles on about the impossibility of fidelity in marriage, the power struggle between men and women — more echoes of Mamet, but without his misogyny.

From Time ● Nov. 5, 2013

He prattles away about Nutella and Frosted Flakes, complains about typos and losing his remote.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2013

At three years of age, he prattles like my father did, but I attend to every lisping word he speaks.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

"With Obama, we won an election that everyone said couldn't be won," he prattled on in a speech in Washington, D.C. last week.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2023

In another segment, after seeing a dump truck on the streets of New York, he prattled on giddily, “Honk! Honk! goes the truck.”

From The New Yorker ● May 8, 2017

She prattled on to her husband and dug around in her black matelassé purse.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2017

In the trial that ensued, prosecutors argued that Valle really meant to do at least some of what he’d prattled on about in late-night binges at the keyboard.

From Slate ● Dec. 10, 2015

But now, as Elena prattled on about her marvelous children, her husband’s high-profile case, the new landscaping they planned to do in the backyard once the summer came, Elizabeth changed her mind.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

He’s been prattling on about Marcus Aurelius’ “Meditations” and sharing Facebook nonsense about centurions ever since.

From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025

I used my prattling pate and said, “You’re beautiful.”

From The Verge ● Apr. 14, 2022

In the film, Sally Field portrayed the ex-wife, an imperious interior designer prattling on about Regency-style tables and Flemish tapestries.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2021

A natural modesty prevents him from prattling on about himself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2021

The drooling was a habit Penelope was slowing training him out of; for now she was relieved Lady Constance seemed not to notice, as she was still prattling away.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood