prating

Example Sentences

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As thou thou prating Raven white by nature being bred,

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2016

As the radiant lady fought over by the prating parson she married and the mewling poet she bewitched, Actress Cornell long ago found one of her most triumphant roles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here he is, prating and preening like a parrot on a stump about the need to renew American civilization.

From Time Magazine Archive

It embitters me altogether against scientists, who are always prating about their accuracy and fairmindedness.

From Time Magazine Archive

“We have had women enough sacrificed to this sentimental, hypocritical prating about purity,” she wrote to her friend Lucretia Mott.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling