gossiping

Example Sentences

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Gossiping about other guests is key to the experience, he says: “It’s like an honor to be discussed on the cousin walk.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Gossiping about dead people has far lower stakes; it cannot affect the quality of life of the dead.

From Slate • Feb. 28, 2021

“Please, brothers and sisters, let’s make an effort not to gossip. Gossiping is a worse plague than COVID,” the pope said during his weekly address from a window above St. Peter’s Square.

From Reuters • Sep. 6, 2020

"Food and drink. Gossiping about who was in and out of favour. Moaning about traffic jams. You can impose 21st Century London on what he wrote."

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2015

“Echo was a nymph like us, a long time ago, but she was a total chatterbox! Gossiping, blah, blah, blah, all the time.”

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan