Sentence examples for prattling from inspiring English sources
The word "prattling" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to describe someone talking in a foolish or inconsequential way, often in a continuous manner. Example: "The children were prattling on about their day at school, oblivious to the time." Alternatives include "babbling" or "chattering."
verb
Present participle of prattle
The ad looked fantastic, he said; the illusion of my bodiless head prattling away was genuinely startling and hilarious, and he hoped there would be follow-up ads in the pipeline.
America would be in better shape if banks had listened to the killjoys who warned that house prices would not rise for ever.The prattling pedlars of positivism deserve to be mocked.
Imagine a doctor prattling on about doomed foetal limbs and kidneys while an exposed woman desperately holds her ears to keep the details at bay.
Getting America's phone and cable companies to open up their networks to others would be a lot harder for politicians than prattling on about neutrality; but it would do far more to open up the net.
Barack Obama is still prattling about having 1m of them on America's roads by 2015 (so far he is only 5% of the way there); this week Angela Merkel restated her aim to have 1m such cars on Germany's roads by 2020 (a mere 3,000 were sold there last year).
Tech geeks (who still dominate the Free State movement) enjoy home-made "bananarchy" ice cream while prattling on about the power of crypto-currencies.
CLUBS are all too often full of people prattling on about things they no longer know about.
His role here was less to generate conversation than to reel Brand back in whenever he started prattling on about "higher realms of " while repeatedly forcing him to relive the "horrific sonic murder" of his appearance at the Olympic closing ceremony.
"When you're younger you worry about so many things that you don't need to worry about like image, appearance," she coos to the camera, without an ounce of irony in her singsong voice, as though unaware that she's forged an entire career by prattling on to young girls about how to look good.
"The grim reality of life is no matter how much the philosophers talk to you or the priests or the psychiatrists, the bottom line is it runs right over you while you're prattling.
She said: "The last thing I'm sure they all want is me prattling on to them, filling their head with too many things.
