yakking

Example Sentences

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In the words of the late great Marty DiBergi: Enough of my yakking.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2026

Nice peaceful places are ruined by your yakking.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 25, 2023

Ryans considered starting a business, devoting himself to the clergy, finding a job yakking about football or .

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 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

Sometimes even they got sick of yakking and turned to dominoes, playing with an old carved set with dots so stained from a million games that they were nearly indecipherable.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly