prattle

Mr. Friedman’s book is full of technocorporate prattle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

I can’t think of many, but if you ask any “SNL” diehard — even just a regular viewer — about Michaels, they’ll likely prattle off some fun facts to you.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026

Sick, awesome, amazing, I continued to prattle on.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025

I find a similar kind of nonsensical prattle in various corners of our Blue Seattle.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024

And then he heard something — something quite apart from the spitting of the dying candles and Lockhart’s prattle about his fans.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling

I think often about his 2014 appearance on “WTF with Marc Maron” because you can hear Maron’s frustration at Mulaney’s composure build while he prattles charmingly on.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2023

Rachel, who narrates the novel, prattles on about her love life, her parents, and the cartoonishly loud suits of her journalist boss.

From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2020

Like Judge Moore, he prattles about the Constitution; like Judge Moore, he hasn't read it and couldn't understand it if he should read it.

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2017

White Pants! over and over again while Len prattles on.

From Time ● May 23, 2012

At three years of age, he prattles like my father did, but I attend to every lisping word he speaks.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

"With Obama, we won an election that everyone said couldn't be won," he prattled on in a speech in Washington, D.C. last week.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2023

My mother cooked and prattled, my grandfather was severe but kindly, the farm prospered.

From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2017

In another segment, after seeing a dump truck on the streets of New York, he prattled on giddily, “Honk! Honk! goes the truck.”

From The New Yorker ● May 8, 2017

In the trial that ensued, prosecutors argued that Valle really meant to do at least some of what he’d prattled on about in late-night binges at the keyboard.

From Slate ● Dec. 10, 2015

She prattled on, and contentedly he half listened.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

He’s been prattling on about Marcus Aurelius’ “Meditations” and sharing Facebook nonsense about centurions ever since.

From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025

There’s a prattling aspect to Icke’s delaying tactics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2025

I used my prattling pate and said, “You’re beautiful.”

From The Verge ● Apr. 14, 2022

She watches “Peppa Pig,” which I, of course, hate — those British pigs with their phallic noses prattling on about nothing.

From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2022

Then Gran starts prattling on about the orchids she’s growing in her greenhouse.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman