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Example sentences for "drivel"

Lexicographically close words:
driuen; driueth; driuing; driv; drive; driveling; drivelling; driven; driver; drivers
  1. And yet, as long as sheoaks sigh and wattle-blossoms bloom, The world shall hear the drivel of the poets of the tomb.

  2. It was getting late, and we had no time to fool away on every ass that wanted to drivel Greek platitudes to us.

  3. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

  4. It told you how in Home Drivel and she's as black as ink too, and the blouse is all streaky.

  5. They do but drivel thereon, draff were them lever,[39] Than all precious pearls that in paradise waxeth.

  6. She tried vainly to picture the type of woman who could write such drivel seriously.

  7. I am freezing to death in my own room, and you come in and drivel to me about ivy and hand-organs.

  8. Octavia continued, conscious that she was talking the rapid drivel of a school-girl describing her first dance.

  9. Soon the lower jaw drops from paralysis, allowing the saliva to drivel from the mouth, and the animal can only succeed in closing it momentarily under the greatest provocation to bite.

  10. The entire mosaic is the most unintelligible, inept, and exasperating mixture of pathos, bathos, and sheer drivel that has ever been claimed as the work of a learned, sane man.

  11. Huysmans, in his drivel about tea, liqueurs and perfumes, follows to the letter the fundamental principle of the Parnassians--of ransacking technical dictionaries.

  12. We have not yet done with Ibsen’s drivel on the subject of marriage.

  13. The only ‘philosophers’ who have hitherto taken Nietzsche’s insane drivel seriously are those whom I have above named the ‘fops’ of philosophy.

  14. Ibsen’s drivel proves nothing of that which, according to him, it should prove.

  15. But this does not enter into even the dreams of these poor creatures, who drivel about the ‘bankruptcy of science.

  16. It has been my lot, in after-years, to hear a great deal of political drivel in French and English, but it was sound philosophy compared to what I heard that morning.

  17. Five of the fellows read that drivel and decided to follow the suggestion.

  18. I suppose the guy that wrote all this drivel found it in the Argus and just--just dilated on it.

  19. But no drivel about accidents or mysteries, if YOU please.

  20. He mostly talks drivel with Dick, and St. Quintin laughs.

  21. She gets you a job on the paper and then you go and slate her drivel to Jaysus.

  22. At drivel of the most nauseous kind between a man and a woman.

  23. The wires were crossed, and I had to listen to drivel of the most nauseous kind between a man and a woman.

  24. The hundred and sixty-nine were huddled outside my door, drinking in the monotonous drivel of the guide who had a shrill, penetrating voice and not the faintest notion of a conscience.

  25. I can have a good man rewrite your drivel when you get back.

  26. As the day of production drew nearer, and the play began to take shape, I caught myself sincerely admiring the girl who could hit off, first shot, the exact shade of drivel which the London stage required.

  27. What made you think of that drivel at the end of Act Two?

  28. Charles: if you must drivel, drivel like a grown-up man and not like a schoolboy.

  29. In good society in England, Charles, men drivel at all ages by repeating silly formulas with an air of wisdom.

  30. But no drivel about accidents or mysteries, if you please.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drivel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absurdity; babble; balderdash; bombast; bull; burble; claptrap; consult; crap; dote; dribble; drip; drivel; flummery; foam; froth; fudge; fustian; gab; gabble; gas; gibber; gibberish; hawk; humbug; jabber; jargon; moonshine; nonsense; palaver; piffle; prate; prattle; rage; ramble; rant; rattle; rave; rigmarole; rodomontade; rubbish; saliva; slaver; slobber; spew; spit; trash; trumpery; twaddle; vapor; waffle; wander; waste