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Example sentences for "prattling"

Lexicographically close words:
pratiques; prattle; prattled; prattler; prattles; pratty; pratum; prau; praus; prave
  1. And when its prattling lips rejoice In innocent delight The parents' love and cherish'd hope, With tenfold power unite.

  2. Yet that prattling oak still sings of so many marvels to the Cossack bard!

  3. The Dutchman, Immanuel von Meteren, gathered the impression that English is broken German, "not spoken from the heart as the latter, but only prattling with the tongue.

  4. And yet their whole attitude toward life seemed out of balance; they were like pedagogues never out of the schoolroom--one moment discoursing learnedly, the next prattling like little children.

  5. The question was asked so reflectively that Mrs. Davis almost stopped to think; but the habit of prattling carried her on.

  6. Brave men, tender and loving women, beautiful girls, and prattling babes have been exterminated in the name of Jesus Christ.

  7. Genji also appeared on the scene, with the newly risen moon, and was soon prattling with TayĆ».

  8. While they were thus prattling on the matter, people were entering the room to see him, so Genji hastily put the things aside, and TayĆ» retired.

  9. But a few short minutes ago she had been sitting merrily prattling by my side, and now I was once more as lonely as if we had never met.

  10. The chief objects were gathered together by a single nun,' said the sister with a look of wonder, and she went prattling on, and leading us hither and thither, like a child showing her toys.

  11. Mocking cunning and brute force are chaining the Innocent One to the rock of martyrdom, and all your prattling and quarreling will not allay his wounds or break his fetters!

  12. Thus sat we, embracing and embraced, beside this prattling stream, looking upon the glory of this midsummer morning and each other to find all things ever more beautiful, and knowing a happiness that went far beyond mere speech.

  13. Blanche had been prattling on, not noticing Morag's flushed cheek and perfect silence.

  14. Blanche was soon at Ellis's side prattling about her morning experiences, and trying to convince her maid of the irreproachable respectability of her new acquaintance.

  15. In a moment still Was Carlo's voice, and still the prattling crowd; And a great shadow overwhelmed them all, As their white faces and their anxious eyes Pursued Fernando in his moody walk.

  16. Safe housed and warm beneath his own roof-tree, With a wee lassie prattling on each knee.

  17. Prattling roguishly] My heart is so big, little brother, that there is room in it for many more than him.

  18. Prattling as if to a baby] Has he got ants in his head again?

  19. So despite the remonstrance in his sister's eyes and Loring's respectful protest, the rector got his hat and linked his arm in that of the young athlete on his left, and led forth into the gloaming, prattling all the way.

  20. He who was so brief and reticent with men, found himself prattling with this child, unable to break off.

  21. There was a natural taciturnity about her which sealed her lips, even when her children were prattling to her.

  22. The farm houses, in which only poverty resided, were formed of logs scarcely keeping off the cold and drifting snow: out of them the inhabitants seldom peeped, and the sports or prattling of children was neither seen or heard.

  23. Among these were two children, just big enough to go alone, who were prattling in French together very fluently as they walked along before their father and mother.

  24. Rollo and Jennie came immediately behind these children, and were very much interested in hearing them talk together, especially to hear the little one prattling in French.

  25. From this place my course was clear; I went up the prattling Wandel Burn, from where it entered the river, and soon I was once more lost in the windings of the dark hills.

  26. Away with you, ye baggage; as if there were not troubles enough for a soldier, without having his camp filled with such prattling hussies as yourself!

  27. He lay down on a goatskin rug and looked into the flickering fire, prattling about what Santa Claus would say when he found the gifts.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prattling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    garrulous; gibbering; palaver; talk