gossip

They mingle cheerfully with the prisoners, laughing and exchanging gossip before the judges walk in to start the hearing.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Get hooked on some sports gossip: In the dog days of the NFL season, we need something to look forward to.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026

After three orderly decades as a journalist and gossip columnist, Jeannette Walls delivered a shock to readers with this account of her chaotic upbringing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

It’s protecting against bad behavior, and when we throw the baby of insight out with the bathwater of gossip, we are leaving a lot of information on the table.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Most likely, both the gossip theory and the there-is-a-lion-near-the-river theory are valid.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Not much is said about the other rude remark at school, or the evident fact that all the parents—dads and moms alike—are a gang of gossips.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

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

In the kitchen, Rudolf’s wife, Hedwig, sits and gossips with friends.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2024

My face burns with rage; I run away from the gossips.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

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

Its bar was popular with politicians, security officers and civil servants who gossiped as they sipped their beer after work.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2024

Right now, they gossiped as in any other break room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2023

He found them around the train station, where they begged, gossiped, and periodically struck off in packs looking for food.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

I run on like this, because you say you like to be gossipped to; and I am just a little lonely here—sometimes.

From Elizabeth's Campaign by Mrs. Humphry Ward

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

His characters are the friends and acquaintances of everybody,—quoted, referred to, gossipped about, discussed, criticized, as though they were actual beings.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 07, May, 1858 by Various

Major Eaton, Old Hickory's first Secretary of War, had married a beautiful widow, maiden name Peggy O'Neil, of common birth, and much gossipped about.

From History of the United States, Volume 3 by Elisha Benjamin Andrews

It was gossipped that he was expected to write Turner's biography—"five years' work for you," says the old man, full of plans for gathering material.

From The Life of John Ruskin by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood

“It’s like, ‘We don’t want to hear from you when we’re gossiping about you,’” said social media consultant Rachel Karten, author of the Link in Bio newsletter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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

The time guys normally spend learning in GED or college classes, or socializing and building community in prisoner-run workshops, is now wasted inside their cells gossiping and scheming.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2025

If you’re gossiping, you probably want discreet, a word that means “careful” or “prudent.”

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

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

I wonder at their present patience and perseverance, and can never sufficiently admire the contexture of that brain which can weave with unwearied toil such immense webs of idle tittle-tattle, and gossipping nonsense.

From Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela (1754) by Anonymous

A kiss, at a dance, was all they could say in their gossipping, but he had kissed Annette, and she was by no means the flower of his heart.

From The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales. by Fanny Fuller

She was gossipping with a man and laughing heartily.

From Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' by Charles Edward Pearce

Return to Table of Contents 'Wine and Walnuts' was a good title for a gossipping book; 'Claret and Olives' is a better.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 434 Volume 17, New Series, April 24, 1852 by William Chambers