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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of chatter.

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Examples

  • Before I could demand clarification, the nurse called his name and chattered loudly as she rolled him out of sight, leaving me with more questions than answers.

    No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010

  • Before I could demand clarification, the nurse called his name and chattered loudly as she rolled him out of sight, leaving me with more questions than answers.

    No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010

  • β€œIt looks like something just kind of chattered its way down along that edge,” deputy shuttle program manager LeRoy Cain said at a briefing, showing a picture of unidentified debris that hit the ship 104 seconds after liftoff.

    Scratch Damage To Shuttle Shield | Impact Lab 2009

  • His boyfriend at the time felt me up surreptitiously in the back of the car while Derek chattered excitedly to us from the front.

    G. Roger Denson: MoMA and AA Bronson Present "Queer Cinema: Today and Yesterday" G. Roger Denson 2011

  • His boyfriend at the time felt me up surreptitiously in the back of the car while Derek chattered excitedly to us from the front.

    G. Roger Denson: MoMA and AA Bronson Present "Queer Cinema: Today and Yesterday" G. Roger Denson 2011

  • She noticed he was smiling, and laughed and chattered on about her mother and her grandmother and being a nurse.

    V-J Day Mary Alston Capps 2011

  • "The structural reforms people have chattered about for years are now essential," he said.

    Draghi: No More German Crutch For Euro Zone Christopher Emsden 2011

  • They got comfortable on the rocks, with the waves roaring in, lapping at their feet, they stroked their bellies and chattered on about the sea, about stealing a small fishing boat when they should have been in school.

    September 17 , 2004 Iddhis Bing 2012

  • In the rising morning heat, we all made final adjustments to backpacks and chattered nervously in an array of languages about what lay ahead.

    Taking on 'Everyman's Everest'EasIER Peaks 2011

  • People chattered amongst themselves and worked with small machines.

    excerpt from a forthcoming novel Frank Hinton 2011

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