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

The celebrity gossip blogger became as famous as the stars he covered before social media upended his business model.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 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

Hilton rose to fame in the early 2000s via his popular and at-times controversial celebrity gossip website.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

“You’re literally not even interesting enough to gossip about.”

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

Much of the chatter never moves past a relatively small, dishy circle of political gossips because the supposed misdeeds, while titillating, can’t stand up to rigorous scrutiny.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

Capitol Hill gossips, including journalists from whom one might have hoped to hear something before now, evidently knew about Mr. Swalwell’s behavior for years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 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

She shops at Zabar’s, does Pilates on Columbus Avenue and resides comfortably in a prewar high rise between West End and Riverside, where she gossips about private lives as though they were front-page news.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2023

Seamen were the worst gossips in the world when the wine was flowing, even wine as cheap as this.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

As attendees roamed the corridors of the suburban Dallas resort and gossiped over drinks in the faux-adobe sports bar, there was no sense of a coming contest.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026

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

As spectators filed through security screening then streamed into the courtroom, they gossiped as key players strode by as though in a stage play, including Dick Harpootlian, the lead defense lawyer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 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

I sat there grinning while Kevin and Susan gabbed and gossiped over their sandwiches.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

They held in the water the sort of society which once characterised the pump-room at Bath: the old people gossipped in groups, the young people flirted across their little tables.

From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare

The old Frenchwoman gossipped and wondered about her; but the most speculative could fashion no story from a page so blank as this joyless existence.

From Charlotte's Inheritance by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

"Worship makes worshipped, worshipper, worshipping; gossip, gossipped, gossipper, gossipping; fillip, fillipped, fillipper, fillipping."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

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

From Garman and Worse A Norwegian Novel by Alexander Lange Kielland

In company with Lyon she walked up and down the deck, looking so joyous that the men about the place could but remark upon it as they gossipped with each other.

From Cruel As The Grave by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

There is no reality in which gossiping about someone’s weight loss, especially on social media, is a way toward helping or healing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

As rumours spread that Anne Boleyn, the English queen, is about to be executed, three working-class women in Essex sit around drinking, gossiping and wondering what it all means for them.

From BBC ● May 13, 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

“You hear people gossiping in the locker room, or you hear about cool art shows that are happening or dance parties,” says Hansen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026

The three of them proceed to talk about boring stuff like stock markets, coupons, and whatever else adults like gossiping about.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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

The following, and the last, epistolary specimen of the renowned G. Steevens—with which I shall treat my reader—is of a general gossipping black-letter cast; and was written two years before the preceding.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

The evenings of the Sabbath are passed in little gossipping circles in some of the cabins, or beneath the shade of some tree in front of their dwellings, or at weddings.

From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 by Jonathon Holt Ingraham

Of what do you suppose he would have informed us, had he indulged this bibliographical gossipping?

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

"Peter!" said Walter, struggling painfully to recover his composure; "Is there more in what you have just been telling me, than mere talk and gossipping nonsense?"

From L'Arrabiata and Other Tales by Paul Heyse