prate

Example Sentences

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You need to hold your nose through the caps on “Resenters” and the verb prate, but the professor has a point.

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2019

He’ll bray, he’ll bate, he’ll prate, he’ll Berate, and he’ll inveigh, Then once we’ve been diverted, he’ll cause a new melee.

From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2018

Marriages of love become rarer year after year, while those of convenience are proportionately on the increase… and we prate of the holy marriage covenant!”

From Salon • Mar. 9, 2014

This two-hour prate across Greek gods, gold-digging moles and burglar horses is amusing enough, but doesn't feel like it's for now, or for us.

From The Guardian • May 8, 2013

‘None of yer prate, now,’ say the surgeons, ‘there’s wan thing which can be done, and that same thing is to keep from all unnatural excitement from this time forward.’

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White