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

Influencers and phonies and maybe even the occasional real journalist prattle on in the backgrounds of scenes telling people what to think and do, often making things worse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2025

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

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025

They remain inside the image ring, snow falling softly on their hair and beards, and except for their forms, their prattle, the town is dead.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

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

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

She prattled on to her husband and dug around in her black matelassé purse.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2017

But reading the boredom on Rada’s face, and desperate to impress a superior, he pulled out his tablet and instead prattled on about his secret discovery, demonstrating the loophole right there on his screen.

From Slate

Before long she was fighting off a yawn as Reznak prattled about the craftsmen’s guilds.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025

Devieilhe, with a smooth tone like light cream, gave Constance’s prattling utterances an air of ingenuous wisdom, beautifully balancing Pérez’s tightly wound, self-conscious Blanche.

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2023

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

From The Verge ● Apr. 14, 2022

A natural modesty prevents him from prattling on about himself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2021

“We need to stay focused, and your prattling isn’t helping.”

From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly