- present participle of yak.
yakking
Example Sentences
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In other instances throughout, she fiddles with her phone while others are yakking away and is always just a bit on the outskirts.
From Salon • Aug. 13, 2023
Nice peaceful places are ruined by your yakking.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 25, 2023
Concerning groundwater, politicians and water officials have been yakking about recharging the drained aquifers for decades.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2023
They met, Wilfert recalls, at a reading in 2005; when Wilfert said “I’m going to the bathroom,” Luker said, “I’m going too” and they sat “in adjacent johns,” yakking.
From New York Times • May 2, 2021
The smell of early-morning coffee is a permanent memory, mixed up with the smell of bacon and the background yakking of the morning news people.
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
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