How to Use blather in a Sentence

blather

1 of 2 verb

• Jerome blathered with joy as Tiny walked slowly into her house.
  — Rion Amilcar Scott, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
• Isn’t this the same group of folks who love to blather on about the wonders of the free market system?
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 21 May 2021
• Metcalf asked Shepard why her character said so little when her husband would blather on and on.
  — Willa Paskin, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2018
• And when the deed was accomplished, it was considered bad form to blather indecorously about it to media.
  — National Geographic, 24 May 2019
• So why would announcers blather and babble throughout the performance?
  — Norman Chad, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Mar. 2018
• And the phenomenon of people loudly blathering at concerts is endemic at venues large and small.
  — George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• In flashback, there was William the philanthropist, hosting fancy fundraisers and sighing as nasty rich people blathered on at him.
  — The Atlantic, 17 June 2018
• Kenan is funny, blathering about Scooby-Doo instead of (the correct order) shrimp scampi.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 28 Jan. 2024
• And don’t blather to me about how the time members spend back in the district talking with real constituents is even more important than time spent in the Washington cesspool.
  — Michelle Cottle, The Atlantic, 17 June 2017
• As in previous years, performers, presenters and winners alike had to battle the nonstop din of the blaring motormouths who blathered throughout.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023
• Unfortunately, allowing Trump to blather lies nonstop without fact-checking plays right into a compulsive liar’s hands.
  — Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
• Back on the homefront, Zora lapses into blathering self-absorption and even Billie, the nurse, comments on her need to devote more quality time to her daughter.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2023
• Many investment companies, eager to persuade trustees to invest with them, will blather about how a particular investment plan can achieve high returns in both investments and social causes.
  — Dallas News, 14 Aug. 2022
• In other words, to blather on about how unremarkable iPhone 16 is compared to the one immediately preceding it completely misses the forest for the trees.
  — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
• The nature of the American political system propagates scads of lawyers and poseurs who blather on endlessly, promising everything and delivering little.
  — Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
• Understanding the absurdity of one trillion anything makes the $38 trillion US national debt that economists have been blathering on about for years look almost sensible.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
• All 10 guests knew her well and each in turn quietly expressed their condolences, with one exception, who determinedly ignored the topic and blathered on about how Covid restrictions were impacting her summer holiday plans.
  — Dina Gachman Daniel Arnold, New York Times, 25 May 2024
• As Sean will show you, the S & P financials sector is down 5% this year, weighed by concerns over AI eating into profit margins, a consumer stretched by moderately high rates, rising inflation expectations and all the other things the smart people spend their days blathering on about.
  — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 11 May 2026

blather

2 of 2 noun

• The world of Rudolph’s movie is awash in the blather and squall of media.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2025
• Comedy people can’t go on talk shows and blather like actors.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2022
• That’s just a bunch of blather, says your humble scribe, who has been covering government in this state for four decades.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026
• Smith’s shoot-from-the-lip comment, taken in the context of TV blather, was no big deal.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 19 Aug. 2020
• And Tillerson made no attempt to play along with some blather about a mutual agreement.
  — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2018
• Sports is taking some time off, but the bullcorn and blather will continue unabated.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 14 Mar. 2020
• Being forced to listen to your endless blather every day has become tiresome.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2026
• On the economy, however, Europe needs a lot more than blather.
  — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
• No good comes out of it … having to hear all the blather and having to hear all the nonsense and the negativity and the falsities.
  — Kristine Phillips, Washington Post, 14 May 2017
• So if vague reassurances are so bad, and giving reasons is so good, then why is our world full of so much empty, unpersuasive blather?
  — Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
• Here’s the time-filling round-up of trivia and blather that precedes the much more hard-hitting (yes, that’s a joke) actual red carpet coverage.
  — oregonlive, 12 Sep. 2022
• No more blather about entering tournaments expecting only to win.
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2018
• All of this blather about uncertainty might make for good actuarial policy.
  — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 9 Oct. 2020
• Given all the commercials, referee timeout checks and half-time blather, both genders really need a two-hour time limit for a 40-minute game.
  — Bob Hill, The Courier-Journal, 7 Mar. 2022
• While these events are supposed to motivate voters and help reach out to the undecided, modern conventions more often are uninspired echo chambers of blather.
  — Shannon Bow O'Brien, The Conversation, 8 Aug. 2024
• And then was bombarded with impassioned blather about the upside of nontoxic masculinity.
  — Mara Reinstein, HollywoodReporter, 24 Nov. 2025
• Cable news blather, especially at that hour, usually vanishes at the commercial break.
  — Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2017
• There was also a lot of blather about that season's philosophical earworms, from cancel culture to gender essentialism.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 31 Mar. 2022
• The president* blithers and blathers and congratulates himself, all the while lying and being really ignorant.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 20 Dec. 2017
• The key point to keep in mind about WeWork, when the baroque deal-making and new age blather is backed out, is that its business model seems almost to be begging to blow itself into smithereens.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2019
• Billy is a motivational speaker who no longer believes his self-actualizing blather.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2020
• These quiet, toothy marsupials don’t create trash or stab one another or blather on about Game of Thrones or slip paper bags full of cash under tables to pay off blackmail.
  — Jason Nark, Philly.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• Based on five episodes made available for preview, things remain uneven -- the first episode is dragged down by more conspiracy blather, interminable voiceover and way too many apocalyptic predictions of doom.
  — Kristi Turnquist, OregonLive.com, 31 Dec. 2017
• Many love to have the carefree candor of the vox populi intrude in celebrity circles where prohibitive media training and wellness blather pass for personality.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
• This mindfulness also offers an opportunity to leave your screens behind and remove yourself, if only for a while, from the blather, furor and demands of a 24/7 world.
  — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2019
• The result is just old-fashioned cinematic fools’ gold, in which sensationalistic blather poses as social commentary.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025
• In the film’s strongest sequence, and its most feverishly comic, Rosefeldt turns cable-TV blather into manifesto.
  — Sheri Linden, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
• Hollywood has long churned out dumb, brutal stories, one difference being that today filmmakers no longer need to rationalize carnage with moralizing or blather about heroic codes.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022
• Is Basically a 9-to-5 While Beatty blathers about getting the wrong envelope, the shocked rightful winners fill in behind him.
  — GQ, 9 Dec. 2017
• Garner immediately locks in, in the way really good moms do, immediately separating the important stuff from the frantic blather.
  — Alessandra Codinha, InStyle, 3 June 2026