How to Use prattle in a Sentence

prattle

1 of 2 verb

• They prattled on into the night, discussing school, music, and friends.
• Likewise, cars might rattle or prattle as your speed got faster.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
• Bazzana would prattle on about his cage work, his posture and his attack angle.
  — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
• And as the girl prattles on, Bounds realizes that she herself will never be asked that question again.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 3 July 2024
• My aunt would prattle on about her kindergarten students, my uncles about their work as firefighters and linesmen.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• David prattled about the weather and asked if Harry had seen anything good on TV.
  — cincinnati.com, 14 Jan. 2020
• Browns training camp stands six weeks away, so there's no mandate to prattle on quite yet about the annual quarterback competition.
  — Zack Meisel, cleveland.com, 14 June 2017
• On a recent evening, psychologists, students, and scholars wandered the rooms, sipping wine and prattling about the collection.
  — Elizabeth Winkler, The New Yorker, 23 June 2023
• While some buffoon is prattling at length, its lips moving weirdly on a low-polygon face, this is usually the moment that your feet hurt or that your headset's face cushion itches.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 23 Mar. 2020
• Middle Sister prattled on about how an atom having six principal quantum numbers can yield several emission lines, or some such.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• Someone is eating with his or her child or family, just having a quiet dinner, and shouting at them, screaming, demanding and prattling on about all these points.
  — Fox News, 26 July 2018
• In a city that prattles endlessly about celebrating diversity, the Seaport stands as just the opposite.
  — Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2018
• His dad, Irving (Strong), is a tightly wound plumber who tends to prattle on whether or not anyone’s listening, about subjects as random as the perfect load-bearing qualities of a truss bridge.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 2022
• The father, Man, prattles on about mowing the lawn, painting the fence, and managing their orchard’s irrigation, while the son periodically falls off his chair from boredom.
  — Literary Hub, 12 Dec. 2025
• Instead of acting cool and sophisticated our narrator prattled like a flibbertigibbet.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
• Lots of people can prattle on about football on TV, but the extreme upper echelon — the polished storytellers entrusted by the networks to call those premier national games — is wafer thin.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
• The book, which weighs in at more than 950 pages, is sloppy, self-indulgent and often eye-crossingly dull — the sound of one man prattling away, not for the reader, but for himself and some distant recording angel of history.
  — Anna Silman, The Cut, 27 July 2017
• As always, those who prattle on about individual freedoms slip quite easily into authoritarianism when defied.
  — Kevin Baker, Harper's Magazine, 23 June 2020
• DiFranco found herself in the surreal position of sitting behind a desk on the Financial News Network being asked to prattle on about profit margins.
  — Jonathan Van Meter, SPIN, 8 Apr. 2023
• The ensuing dinner scene demonstrates some of Feiffer's best writing, as Patsy's parents prattle on like the most memorable of the cartoonist's vapid authority figures.
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 14 Aug. 2017
• The chapter is mostly made up of faintly (and not-so-faintly) ignorant rednecks who prattle on about their own superiority and sense of grievance that their pure white ways of life are being distorted and corrupted by the Jews and the blacks.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 15 May 2018

prattle

2 of 2 noun

• No one has ever listened to me prattle on for this long before.
  — The Washington Post, AL.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• They are allowed to prattle on about vague problems in America.
  — Dom Giordano, Philly.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• Perhaps part of what Slobodchikoff deems prairie-dog language is just useless prattle.
  — Ferris Jabr, New York Times, 12 May 2017
• Some of the prattle can feel like treading water, a delaying tactic until the inevitable confrontation scene.
  — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
• His memoir is a litany of petty fights, a constant takedown of enemies and a cascade of self-aggrandizing prattle.
  — Elizabeth Spiers, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2022
• Away from the incessant prattle of social media and the knee-jerk demands for harsh immediate action, a variety of perspectives was considered.
  — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2017
• The Activision-Blizzard purchase, along with the now constant prattle about the metaverse, only increases the value of smaller studios, who could turn out to be the next Activison.
  — Will Bedingfield, Wired, 25 Feb. 2022
• Over the past several years, Carlson Stroud’s videos devolved from benign prattle about energy, God, and angels to drunken rants, dark threats, and apparent mistreatment of members.
  — Virginia Pelley, Marie Claire, 7 Sep. 2021