prattling

• Exhausted by the playful beating her body had taken from sea and sun, and unable to endure either the false cheer of Penfeld's prattling or the sight of Justin's empty pallet, she had crawled to her own blankets after dinner and collapsed in a dreamless heap Her eyes adjusted slowly. —  Teresa Medeiros - Once An Angel
• The time for prattling is already long past and we desperately need to see some grown-up discussion and real action. —  EU Referendum
• The smooth guy uttered the most succinct critique of the night - "Thanks to Howie Mandel's prattling, our bit has been cut" - and that's typical of his ad-lib aplomb. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
• Second best jab at show hosts: "Thanks to Howie Mandel's prattling, our bit has been cut." —  Tube Talk
• These gifts conferr'd Divine, the awful Deity retired And now, loud-prattling as they came, arrived Her handmaids; sleep forsook her at the sound She wiped away a tear, and thus she said Me gentle sleep, sad mourner as I am Hath here involved. —  The Odyssey of Homer

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