Example Sentences

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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

In a spray of wildly allusive wordplay, David Helfgott natters compulsively, cheerfully, to himself.

From Time Magazine Archive

A squirrel raiding our bird feeder natters at me in irritation before it hops away to try its luck at the bird feeder two houses over.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam