tittle-tattle

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tittle-tattle
Verb
  • Yet in the president’s social media blathering last week came something shocking: an admission that deportations don’t really work.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2025
  • As Wharton continues to blather at June, Luke, Rita and a bunch of others move from the back of the crowd to the front.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 20 May 2025
Verb
  • The squirrel, however, is quicker—leaping up a tree and chattering in irritation from a safe distance.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 June 2025
  • Critics and the chattering masses on Instagram will have another chance to weigh in as the designers’ first collections hit the runway.
    Evan Clark, Footwear News, 13 June 2025
Verb
  • The sky was gray, and rain pattered down through the leaves.
    Jessica Camille Aguirre, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Timbaland’s programming is at warp level, with pattering percussion across drum heads, yielding a crowd-pleaser that Elliott carries at a galloping pace.
    Steven J. Horowitz, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The result is an entirely incoherent crime thriller that features gangsters prattling on about the self and the ego and the soul and then occasionally wandering into an entirely different scene where other gangsters are prattling on about the same thing.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 27 May 2025
  • One half of a pair of young twins prattles on incessantly about some sci-fi arcana while the boy’s bored-looking mother and his quieter brother tune him out.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2025
Verb
  • These conversations teach a person how to gab and, perhaps more importantly, how to respond to spicy information.
    Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Chatting with the Oscar winner about her go-to wide-leg jeans (the trend-setter has been going barrel since before the denim style gained mass appeal) was like stepping into that scene in every Nancy Meyers movie where the gals gab about divorce over a buttery chard.
    Brie Schwartz, Glamour, 27 May 2025
Verb
  • In lighter news about Gallagher’s recent X activity, the musician recently praised a fan who hilariously trolled Billie Joe Armstrong at a recent Green Day show.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 3 July 2025
  • Ja Rule may have to walk back his latest attempt at trolling 50 Cent, after official reports from the Hip-Hop icon’s recent Legacy Tour stop in Germany told a different story.
    Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 2 July 2025
Verb
  • Another version is dotted with oily little pepperoni cups and smattered with hot honey: simple and satisfying.
    Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
  • Lee is also now taking a smattering reps at first base as expected entering the spring.
    Michael Shapiro, Chron, 17 Mar. 2023
Verb
  • In turn, Bao Li — the social one, the zoo noted — happily bleated back.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 20 May 2025
  • Sheep were bleating, kicking, and being hurled in all directions.
    Cyril E. Holland, Outdoor Life, 8 May 2025
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“Tittle-tattle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tittle-tattle. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.

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