Sentence examples for rattle on from inspiring English sources

"rattle on" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to talk for a long time in a way that is not interesting or useful. For example: "My neighbor rambled on for hours about her garden, but I was too polite to tell her I wasn't interested in hearing about it."

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You can sense the director, Mike Nichols, who knows a thing or two about entrances and exits, relishing every minute and wishing that this stuff could rattle on forever.

Pick your horse for one good reason — no one wants to hear the n00b rattle on about 20 different angles when you just started following the sport two weeks ago.

Obama's bring-on-em' Bush like saber rattle on terrorism, let alone a little rhetorical bravado on 9/11 won't make one iota difference to conservatives and legions of voters.

(Fontane just lets her rattle on).

Meanwhile the choir's high jinx rattle on.

Unperturbed by what they don't know, the girls rattle on gaily: "The fear continues to grow".

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"Instead," Mr. Belmont said, "he started rattling on as though Rickles -- sitting at his side -- had died.

("Anyway, it rattles on for a while," was one wry apology).

He rattled on about safety at his plants: an important subject, but hardly what one would expect to be his main preoccupation.

A glass rattled on the bathroom shelf.

He could still hear the glasses rattling on the tray.

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