gossip

There should be a law that speakerphone only activates when the person is sharing lethal gossip.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

According to internet gossip, Cusk’s M is in fact a shadow portrait of Natalie Portman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

In 1941 Der Chef began delivering a salacious mix of gossip and foulmouthed fake news to German listeners over shortwave radio.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

The pseudonym Perez Hilton is a reference to Paris Hilton who was at the height of her fame when the celebrity gossip blog was launched in 2005.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

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

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

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

Williams has long understood why people love gossip and equally adore and abhor gossips: they cause controversy, and sometimes force a public, corrective response.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2024

In the kitchen, Rudolf’s wife, Hedwig, sits and gossips with friends.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2024

Everybody gossips and everybody gets up to things.

From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2023

I only heard dribs and drabs from gossips around town.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

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

During his childhood, Almodóvar sometimes sat and listened under the kitchen table while his mother and other women gossiped and shared secrets, Moore says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2024

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

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2024

We gossiped as we cooked small eggs and sweet potatoes on top of the houlu just to enjoy their smell.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

In the forepart of the oven, on either hand, stood a variety of pots and pipkins, and gossipped together in their several tones.

From Yiddish Tales by Various

The town gossipped itself nearly crazy, but without any satisfactory result.

From Garman and Worse A Norwegian Novel by Alexander Lange Kielland

And what is more to the purpose, it spared him the pain and mortification of knowing that he was gossipped about.

From The Right to Privacy by Louis D. Brandeis

You may tell her that I came here and gossipped against her, if you like.

From The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage by Bernard Shaw

"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

“It’s like, ‘We don’t want to hear from you when we’re gossiping about you,’” said social media consultant Rachel Karten, author of the Link in Bio newsletter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

I briefly joined a book club of some work colleagues when I was teaching in rural Illinois, and it was fun, but most of our time was spent gossiping about, well, work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 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

They would also often meet for dinner, sometimes lavish meals, gossiping and bantering over dim sum, pizza or claypot rice.

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025

It might sound like a warning, like the way George might correct her for gossiping, but the way it comes from Emmett means tell me more.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers

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

So soon as the first canoe was made, Cary Singleton launched it, and, accompanied by two men, made the reconnoissance which so much frightened the gossipping laundresses.

From The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 by John Lespérance

I wonder at their present patience and perseverance, and can never sufficiently admire the contexture of that brain which can weave with unwearied toil such immense webs of idle tittle-tattle, and gossipping nonsense.

From Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela (1754) by Anonymous

"It means that some accident or other has given malignant fools a chance of gossipping about her," said Sir Tancred in an unamiable tone.

From The Admirable Tinker Child of the World by Edgar Jepson

Some were kindly and sympathising, some bitter and full of taunts; but the greater number were simply inquisitive, neither friendly nor hostile, but gossipping.

From The King's Daughters by Emily Sarah Holt