Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly.
An incessant or indiscreet talker.
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Examples for "talk "
Examples for "talk "
1 Orwellian tax talk Political tax talk is becoming Orwellian: Secrecy is Democracy.
2 No need to talk to your average Government deputy about serious consequences.
3 The French Foreign Ministry, however, said talk of a deal was premature.
4 The shrill war talk of recent weeks has been alarming, Ban said.
5 NZ and the EU talk small business gains from free trade deal.
1 Study them; practice them; teach them; sing them to all the world.
2 Remember how she used to sing 'The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond'?
3 In this they pipe and revel; in this they sing and dance.
4 They really did sing at work, they recalled, particularly on Friday afternoons.
5 Or they heard that young girl come on and sing and left.
1 The most obvious sign is the increasing chatter about a second referendum.
2 A certain amount of preliminary social chatter was required at this point.
3 There were hints of it in the social chatter of the papers.
4 The chatter this year is that it's the best start in decades.
5 Around this industry, large numbers had gathered simply to watch and chatter .
1 Wood and coal; apple and peach ; iron and silver; ship and automobile.
2 However, in peach ancestor, these syntenic regions were quickly lost or deleted.
3 The varieties of the peach and the nectarine run in parallel lines.
4 Today she approached the Kobayashi house with an armful of peach blossoms.
5 Remove the peach from the stock syrup and place into iced water.
1 The babble of a million voices all seeming to talk at once.
2 She expected a babble of noise, a murmur, some level of response.
3 The woman could certainly babble with the best of them, Sarah thought.
4 Through it, James could still hear the babble of hundreds of voices.
5 Not just incoherent baby babble but real expressions of wants and needs.
1 Rick listens to her prattle on for several minutes, and then apologizes.
2 Another week and time again for you to indulge my incorrigible prattle .
3 Even babies echoed the names of our two heroes in their prattle .
4 He pauses seriously to thank them in the midst of his prattle .
5 But to my pleasing task; again let me prattle to my friend.
1 It made a gratifying clackety - clack sound every time I took a step.
2 The lickity - clack of the wheels on the track gobbled up the minutes.
3 And with them new high heels on the sidewalk clack , clack , clack .
4 He heard teeth snapping open and closed, a horrific clack , clack , clack .
5 He slammed the door and Judy heard the bolt clack into place.
1 People will not accept free seeds without a certain amount of palaver .
2 Spaghetti or any long ribbon pasta, in contrast, is a right palaver .
3 Now dey lib for Congo, dey not like the idea of soldier - palaver .
4 They continued their palaver throughout the afternoon and into the early evening.
5 One undeniable thing in this palaver is the Russian reputation for glamour.
1 When the meal was over, the children sate together in whispering tattle .
2 Is not this better than the indulgence in perpetual trifling and tattle ?
3 They cabal, and tattle , and hiss, and cackle comminations under their breath.
4 But asking a little girl to tattle on her friends seemed monstrous.
5 Social tattle and friendly interchange are not the only component, however.
1 Not that I'm buyin' this technical twaddle for one minute, you understand.
2 Whoever, in a respected publishing house, was responsible for such whimsical twaddle ?
3 They are too sensible to indulge in mere twaddle about the weather.
4 We forget the immense amount of twaddle that the great epochs produced.
5 The solemn unction with which he pronounced this twaddle is beyond description.
1 There followed a tedious debate, a muddy flow of gabble and balderdash.
2 Shawn began to gabble with amazing speed and in a mighty voice:
3 Abolitionists sneered at all this gabble about the sacredness of the Constitution.
4 There was a brave gabble of tongues enough when I came in.
5 You were reciting some gabble on the steps a little bit ago.
1 We prate much of the family as the unit of the state.
2 We prate a lot about the fair sex and its sweet vanities.
3 The hardest part for a soldier to play is to prate well.
4 Quoth the Khalif, Thou shalt not forestall me with talk and prate .
5 But we prate like gossiping river-men.-Wiltsee the Skimmer of the Seas?
1 I am much obliged for your help, but you are talking piffle .
2 Listen: Instead of all this impossible piffle , let's start a real story.
3 One hoarse raucous piffle and three sharp decisive puffs for your arguments!
4 He wasted money, energy and wrote piffle , was his damning verdict.
5 The leader of the boys said: Aw, piffle , cut it out.
1 Tyson could speak, Tyson could write, where other men maunder and drivel.
2 Apian continued to maunder over the Ptolemaic theory and astrology in his lecture-room.
3 And while you maunder about restoring competition, the trusts go on destroying you.
4 All of which it is a comfort somehow to maunder away on here.
5 That is what his life has turned, but he will not maunder about it.
1 A monkey chained in one corner began to gibber and mow at me.
2 After that he will be left to gibber his visions to padded walls.
3 The salinae scream and gibber , desperate to communicate what they know.
4 He ached with desire to express and could but gibber prosaically as everybody gibbered.
5 Does she ask why? the assassin began to gibber .
1 And I started to blabber about how much she meant to me.
2 So, this was interestingtwo attorneys, an accountant, and a TV blabber person.
3 Why, you rotten, double-crossing, blabber - mouthed little tramp, I ought to kill you!
4 God knows, we're sure to hear enough of that blabber today.
5 Either way, you don't want to blabber along in a message about your cat's whole day.
1 And if he should order mutton, don't blab out that we have none.
2 He is afraid the king might blab out to me a little of that diabolical work which they will commence at midnight.
3 She knew she'd blabbed out of turn, and tried to fix it.
4 How would you like your past life looked into, and blabbed out ?
5 Preparations had been made for my coming, "by his lordship," as the farmer blabbed out .
1 People in the Ramsay camp don't spill the beans to the press.
2 But Khan intimated that he could spill the beans at any time.
3 They murder anybody who dares spill the beans about their little secret.
4 Can't somebody find one of the Yankees' limited partners to spill the beans ?
5 Instead, it was left to Ryanair to spill the beans yesterday.
1 But it was Veda who let the cat out of the bag .
2 If that didn't let the cat out of the bag , nothing would!
3 Kate had let the cat out of the bag now and no mistake.
4 Only gradually did he let the cat out of the bag .
5 I almost let the cat out of the bag , just to please her.
1 Let him babble out everything, they said to him.
2 You must babble out the rest between you.
3 Excitedly the Austrian began to babble out praise.
4 I wanted to babble out my most fearful secrets to her, even though I knew she'd use them against me.
5 Alexia had just enough presence of mind to babble out that under no circumstances was anyone to attempt to bathe Prudence.
1 Do you expect me to allow scandalous tittle - tattle to be spread about Town?
2 The General Here you see the effect of all this tittle - tattle .
3 This, however, is not mere tittle - tattle or tabloid fodder about romance.
4 Herein lies the secret of the avarice and tittle - tattle that poison provincial life.
5 And Minister, here's some juicy tittle - tattle we gathered for you earlier.
1 One has only to blab in his cups and it all collapses.
2 Breanne will blab everything to her friends, to people at the party.
3 You let me blab about the soft places, about my family's secrets.
4 He would blab to my daddy, and I would get a whuppin'.
5 You blab to my wife, and I'll be as good as dead.
6 And a fine lot you chose to blab to there, you two.
7 You get plenty of laugh, and no tiresome blab to listen to.
8 He loves her too well not to blab to her every secret.
9 I shouldn't blab this all round the parish, if I was you.
10 But if they git Frenchy away from Texas they'll make him blab .
11 Peachy Proctor, if you blab like this you'll be tarred and feathered.
12 To go and blab trade secrets to every customer that comes along?
13 De' yez think that I'm goin' to blab all about our good-turn?
14 Tronstad makes an exaggerated gesture that implies he'd rather die than blab .
15 Foreign words, new words, long words, higher mathematics, often register blab .
16 Those who possess good memories might remember your indiscretion and blab about it.
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