Sentence examples for wittering from inspiring English sources

ReprintsBut taking pride in one's country and wittering on about its greatness are different things.

Douglas Laubach Garden City, Kansas Inflation hawk SIR – I wish you would stop wittering on about the benefits of inflation ("The world's biggest economic problem", October 25th).

"I'm actually kind of sobbing and kind of tearing at the walls inside my own brain while my mouth is, you know, wittering away in some amusing fashion," he says.

They'd be called out as wittering harpies – or, worse, ignored.

If we do not want to take up valuable parliamentary time, why is he still wittering on?" Mr Dunne wittered on for another quarter of an hour.

Michael Fabricant said the Labour leader was adding "nothing" to the debate with his new technique but was "wittering on at length".

10.53pm: Sirallun is wittering on about margin and penetration.

But it's McKellen we're always watching, with his twitches and moues and wistful, wittering "I had a friend, once" recollections, homilies from a cardboard pulpit.

"What have the markets spent all summer doing, except wittering on asking for political leadership, which is [code for: Angela] Merkel should listen to them and not the German electorate.

In 2006, Egg Card featured a nice, campy gay couple ("Jamie and I felt that we'd been spending too much... ..) wittering away about their financial shenanigans.

They're wittering on about how great it is that the omerta that prevented the lid being blown off the wholesale use of drugs in cycling has finally been lifted, as if to suggest that they and their journalist buddies weren't as complicit as anyone else in maintaining it for the last 20 years.