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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of prate.

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Examples

  • So much so I called my wife (traveling on business – or so she tells me) and prated like a girl scout who won the cookie sales contest.

    Greetings From The Scene Of Hillary's Party Tonight 2009

  • Remember those hearts and minds that the lying liars prated about winning.

    Archive 2008-09-01 CC 2008

  • Since then, they have ceaselessly prated about alternatives including foreign funded NGOism, job placements in the reactionary government, electoral politics and the like to the armed revolution rather than to the oppressive and exploitative ruling system.

    Introduction to Philippine Economy and Politics - Jose Maria Sison CPP Abhay N 2007

  • When he got a bit of sunshine, the old lazzarone basked in it; he prated about his own affairs and past splendour, and all the lords, generals, and Lord – Lieutenants he had ever known.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • Her aunt, the model upon which she had been formed, was indeed the very essence of insipid formality but the boy was very pert and impudent, and prated without ceasing.

    The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

  • & Flettcher who hath the care of him hath prated that that Ile shall be called in our mappe Insula Endymione, but I have geuen order he shall hold his fooles tong lest he engender fear in the saylers, & Crokeham hath benn lain alone in Iota's cabin lest more talke betyde.

    The Life of the World to Come Baker, Kage 2004

  • He was always calm and spoke quite rationally upon any subject except his own profession; but in connexion with that he prated away the merest nonsense.

    The Survivors of the Chancellor 2003

  • Meurer “prated about the honor of their submarine crews being possibly assailed,” Beatty told Eugenie.

    Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003

  • And then they had prated about his manner of loving.

    Villette 2003

  • However, he chattered, tattled, and prated with all the seven at once, of different matters, and in divers languages.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

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