natter
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The other ladies who gather to knit and natter in her small English village thought the ears should be bigger.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2023
While politicians natter, markets move on as individuals and organizations chart their own courses.
From Fox News ● Oct. 1, 2020
So it would defeat the point if you take it off to have a natter, really.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2020
The leaves natter even if you can’t see them.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2016
Natter natter, you’re always on the tiny beach.
From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
Clocks should be seen to be stopped for goal celebrations, substitutions, natters before set-pieces, rolling around and whenever the ball goes out of play.
From The Guardian ● May 15, 2016
As Erie natters on in an eager, fitful string of clichés, bringing to mind the sort of garrulous salesman you’d normally cross the street to avoid, Mr. Whitaker quietly breaks your heart.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2016
Instead of plunging into psychobabble, Carr simply plys his lineup with Pink Lady and natters.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2010
Does that mean you have to be silent while everyone else natters on with lofty ideas about the "video revolution"?
From Time Magazine Archive
“Of course. She spent all afternoon with her,” my mom says, and then natters on about how Nat’s not supposed to count.
From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
Its members have nattered on endlessly about their responsibility to safeguard the taxpayers’ money.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
We chatted about bus times, we talked about the meal I was cooking, we just nattered.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2023
Scheuer mused, “I have nattered on here longer than I intended.”
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2018
The wife of a candidate for county commissioner in Travis County, Tex., looked at the camera dryly as her husband nattered incessantly about details of county policy.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2016
We walked on, and he nattered away for a while.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
One resident tries to start a sing-song, belting out Ring of Fire, and though a couple of colourful blankets are on display, there is much more nattering than knitting.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2024
“One day I was driving around with a close friend of Rob’s nattering about this exact question,” Hobbs recalled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2023
When he begins nattering on about not being racist, she shuts off the TV.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2022
There’s a point where the volume on everything — the traffic noise, the pink and purple sprays of wildflowers, my nattering thoughts — turns way down, and then goes completely silent.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2022
And I mind the townsmen nattering on, saying we foul the waters.
From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz
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