blathering

present participle of blather

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for blathering
Verb
  • Each guest was invited to hurl a brick through the windows — a dandy way of trolling the libs.
    Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 23 Oct. 2025
  • While Posobiec was trolling the libs, Kirk, just 24 years old at the time, was busy raising millions of dollars to grow TPUSA into a powerful organization on the right.
    Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The right is being horrifyingly plain in bleating their bigotry, but they’re also lost in linguistic obscurities.
    James Folta, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Encouraged to see Jones sorta respond, Mackie kept babbling on and on and on about his dad, unaware that everyone else in the room was cringing.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Pine, Colorado — As massive granite outcroppings dotted with evergreen trees jutted skyward from the landscape of Colorado’s Southern Rockies on a warm Tuesday morning, the serenity of bird calls and a babbling creek was shattered by a radio call from a park ranger in distress.
    Andi Babineau, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In an eventual 57-point Hurricanes victory, Stevenson was balling and jabbering about it, too, to every Wildcats pass catcher within earshot.
    Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Niners’ defense is reeling, and the offense is sputtering.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
  • In August, a single-engine Piper PA-28 crash landed on southbound Interstate 805 in Sorrento Valley after the pilot noticed the engine was sputtering and losing power.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • For the chattering women, by contrast, the tool of power is writing; and for people who were almost certainly illiterate, the writing takes on almost magical characteristics.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Weiss, the entrepreneurial and opinionated co-founder of The Free Press website, is an irresistible story to the media chattering classes.
    Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Before the Chiefs’ Divisional Round win in January 2024, Jones embraced that hostility by jawing with fans during warmups.
    Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 30 Oct. 2025
  • As a Chicago Irishman, jawing and spinning a yarn is my birthright.
    Outside Online, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • While chatting about Leila’s wedding plans on Live with Kelly and Mark, the Sisters Loved and Treasured author, 65, revealed that her daughter, 26, plans to wed her fiancé Sylvain Gricourt in two separate ceremonies.
    Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Video shared on social media showed Bell smiling, chatting with fans and taking photos.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
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“Blathering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blathering. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.

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