Sentence examples for drivel on from inspiring English sources
"drivel on" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English
It means to continue talking in a pointless or nonsensical manner. It can be used in any situation where someone is speaking in a rambling or uninteresting way, often without realizing it. Example: "I couldn't focus on the meeting because my coworker just kept droning on and on about their weekend plans. It was all just meaningless drivel."
That's a nice change from most of the infantile drivel on the DS.
(In 1996, the physicist Alan Sokal fooled the editors of the postmodern journal Social Text into publishing an artful bit of drivel on the "hermeneutics of quantum gravity").
"Our ambassador was asked to respond to Sidney Blumenthal's drivel, on the same day that he was asking for more security," said Gowdy.
But with so much drivel on screen and in the pipeline, there should be room for "Gideon's Crossing," a gripping series that doesn't treat the viewer like an idiot.
At one point, Polly writes a horrendous fanfic-ish instalment of their shared story, rich in rippling muscles and satin skin, and receives a scathing two-word review – "Sentimental Drivel" – on the back of a postcard.
E-publishers who put their own label on a book are no more likely to inflict drivel on an unprotected public than most people are to abuse the telephone by making late-night prank calls; it happens, but not so much that it destroys the value of the medium.
The picture drivels on about the joys of spontaneity, whole Gena Rowlands and Seymour Cassel remain embarrassingly wrong for each other.
And all the while drivelling on for the full 50 minutes, the doctor going "Hmmmn" behind the serried ranks of figurines perched on his desk.
The illiterate keyboard warrior drivelled on about Inglis's grandfather being an "African gorilla" and his shock that "you keep mixing with white girls".
10.08pm: Right, while this pointless drivel is going on, a question.
Instead of consuming what's tossed before them from above, they swap their own selfies, sext and drivel endlessly on messaging apps.
