prattle
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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
The characters chatter and prattle about vampire lore and Anne Rice, “True Blood,” “Twilight” and “Nosferatu.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
I find a similar kind of nonsensical prattle in various corners of our Blue Seattle.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
“Okay, but next time, don’t prattle on with needless details!”
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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
“Oh no,” she prattles back, “like everybody thinks that but I just like have a really chronic condition and like a terribly fast mouth and like sometimes it can be annoying.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2014
As he spirals downward, he prattles on about the impossibility of fidelity in marriage, the power struggle between men and women — more echoes of Mamet, but without his misogyny.
From Time ● Nov. 5, 2013
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
Ever since a tiny Jonathan Lipnicki prattled on about the weight of the human head in “Jerry Maguire,” a parade of overzealous kid prodigies have appeared on-screen and quickly worn out their welcomes.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 18, 2018
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
Lady Constance Ashton prattled without stopping, as if she were trying to keep herself company.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
There’s a prattling aspect to Icke’s delaying tactics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2025
A rabbit in full formal attire, prattling on about his tardiness?
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2025
I used my prattling pate and said, “You’re beautiful.”
From The Verge ● Apr. 14, 2022
But I am glad I got to hear this king — and queens and dukes — pronouncing and prattling in my ear, regaling me in the comfort of my home.
From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2020
“We need to stay focused, and your prattling isn’t helping.”
From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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