rattle on
Example Sentences
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I don’t need to rattle on about myself, but I miss being talked with instead of feeling talked at.
From Slate • Feb. 2, 2021
My neighbors rattle on cheerfully about “2.5 dimensional characters” and “demi-humans;” their government has appointed the mouthless cartoon cutie Hello Kitty and a 22nd-century blue robotic cat named Doraemon as cultural ambassadors.
From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2018
“I could rattle on and on about Jason and Aiden all day,” she says.
From Washington Times • Apr. 2, 2017
“After listening to Hillary rattle on and on and on, I don’t think so badly of Rosie O’Donnell any more. In fact I’m actually starting to like Rosie a lot.”
From The Guardian • Oct. 20, 2016
Bobby Moch recalled, “You couldn’t hear anything except for the oars going in the water ... it’d be a ‘zep’ and that’s all you could hear ... the oarlocks didn’t even rattle on the release.”
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
