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
  • Fans chattered, wondering if there would be special guests joining Jin on stage, as BTS are all now reunited.
    Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025
  • Later, when the crowd poured out onto the humid streets of the Upper West Side, people chattered and murmured as the Beacon’s staff unlocked their phones.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 29 June 2025
Verb
  • Momoa wore black pants and a black shirt with his hip-length cape featuring a red and yellow triangular pattered.
    Kayla Grant, People.com, 22 July 2025
  • The sky was gray, and rain pattered down through the leaves.
    Jessica Camille Aguirre, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 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
  • Musk’s primary criticism of Trump was the amount his signature policy bill would add to the government debt, though Musk has also repeatedly trolled Trump over the Epstein files.
    Sara Dorn, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
  • The houseboat was also quite luxurious, with five queen staterooms, a kitchen, a propane barbecue, two bathrooms, and a rooftop hot tub, which some of us relaxed in while others pulled out fishing rods and trolled the water behind the boat.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 18 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
  • Her husband, Jason Halbert, was in Los Angeles on business when alerts started bleating on his phone.
    Melonee Hurt, The Tennessean, 4 July 2025
  • In turn, Bao Li — the social one, the zoo noted — happily bleated back.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 20 May 2025
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“Tittle-tattle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tittle-tattle. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.

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