rattle on
Example Sentences
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“I don’t need to rattle on, but I do miss being talked with” suggests that your friend didn’t always do this, which is reason to hope that they’ll be able to rein it in.
From Slate • Feb. 2, 2021
My neighbors rattle on cheerfully about “2.5 dimensional characters” and “demi-humans;” their government has appointed the mouthless cartoon cutie Hello Kitty and a 22nd-century blue robotic cat named Doraemon as cultural ambassadors.
From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2018
“I could rattle on and on about Jason and Aiden all day,” she says.
From Washington Times • Apr. 2, 2017
Electric wires slung between pastel and tile buildings link to trams that rattle on tracks curling up and down cobbled streets.
From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2016
Bobby Moch recalled, “You couldn’t hear anything except for the oars going in the water ... it’d be a ‘zep’ and that’s all you could hear ... the oarlocks didn’t even rattle on the release.”
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
