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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of prattle.

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Examples

  • I prattled on a bit, about how clear and cold that lake was, and how the children slept in the boathouse and watched the ducks until it grew dark; how entire families used to canoe to the country club for dinner, dressed in black tie and bare feet.

    The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011

  • ID guy: A tree is a partially ordered set and you prattled on about ordered sets.

    A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

  • Just so, pusillanimous; prattling out little moralities that have been prattled into them, and afraid to live life.

    Chapter 32 2010

  • I prattled on a bit, about how clear and cold that lake was, and how the children slept in the boathouse and watched the ducks until it grew dark; how entire families used to canoe to the country club for dinner, dressed in black tie and bare feet.

    The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011

  • On the eve of "Idol's" return, while Aerosmith's frontman Tyler prattled on merrily to TV critics about how hard the auditions process was for him because some wannabe Idolettes sang Aerosmith tunes badly, surviving judge Randy Jackson was hard at work trying to re-cast himself as the new Simon Cowell.

    'American Idol: The Reboot' debuts tonight Lisa de Moraes 2011

  • It's a dance show that is very unique - it's open to all ages, so we say from 6 to 106, Paula prattled on perkily.

    Paula Abdul and David Letterman talk 'Idol,' new dance show Lisa de Moraes 2011

  • The ladies prattled on about the kind of men and the kind of things I yearned to forget.

    Brooklyn Story Suzanne Corso 2011

  • It prattled sweet ideals and dear moralities, rubbed its eyes not once, nor ceased one whit in its greediness, and smashed down in a failure as tremendous only as was the opportunity it had ignored.

    Revolution 2010

  • It was true that they prattled sweet little ideals and dear little moralities, but in spite of their prattle the dominant key of the life they lived was materialistic.

    Chapter 5: The Philomaths 2010

  • “I like your horizontal improvisations,” she prattled.

    Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011

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