Sentence examples for smatter from inspiring English sources

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smatter

verb

To talk superficially; to babble.

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Each gets a round of applause from the audience in the theatre and a corresponding smatter from the press room.

Fresh bear droppings smatter a central clearing as Mr Brust and his guest, clad in head-to-toe camouflage, climb up trees some 20 metres apart.

Smatter the place with Yo! Sushis, Jamie's Italians and some of those outdoor heaters and, before you know it, people will be spending money they haven't got again and all will be well.

When Paper Planes was at its peak of crossover success last year – No 4 in Billboard, sampled in TI & Jay-Z's Swagga Like Us, an appearance on Slumdog Millionaire – there was a smatter of chatter to the effect that she was "artist of the decade".

But I have also now, I hope, finally learned the importance of reaching out, letting down some of the barricades we create, particularly later in life: a smatter of disappointments, be it love or career or money, and it's just too easy for the shutters to go up, increasingly so these days.

Like the original, the result is a mish-mash of interesting ideas, dreary cliches, a smatter of laughter and some (very) occasional frights – hokey but innocuous.

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Every few minutes, a black smudge, smattered with muddy puddles, denotes a coalmine.

Bradley, a severe man with a buzz cut, is built along the lines of an American football coach: a steady, hardworking, but personality-free drill sergeant whose analysis of plays is smattered with terms like "systems" and "work rates".

Andries Tebow landed in New Amsterdam — later renamed New York — and settled sometime before 1686 amid what was then open farmland of North Jersey and fast-growing smatters of Dutch immigrants.

My memory, like that of many of us, tends not to follow a narrative trajectory with rising action as in a conventional plot, but is rather a collage smattered with as many small mundane moments as big, dramatic ones.

Used to be, a little red, blue and white was smattered around town.

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