[
UK
/tʃˈætəɹɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈtʃætɝɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈtʃætɝɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine
- the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys)
How To Use chattering In A Sentence
- He carefully draped it over Ramirez, and soon the warmth from the luxuriant fur stilled his chattering teeth and banished the damp.
- So I hied myself downtown to a famous pet shop named Trefflich's, where there was an entire floor filled with chattering squirrel monkeys. Jay Weston: Do Monkeys Make Good Pets?
- As I trolled back and forth in the microfiche looking for the relevant piece, I was struck by the other things the chattering classes brayed five years ago.
- The studio was filled with the same chattering and babble of languages that I had encountered upon my arrival. No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
- Mark was still chattering about the movie scene when all the cathode ray screens went blank. BLACKWATER SOUND
- Tots fell silent; birds stopped chirping; you could hear hearts beating amid the chattering teeth.
- Then I heard the red-head chattering and the plaintive mew of the sapsucker.
- All three buses stopped outside the pool, and each disgorged a tumbling jumbling pile of wee kiddies, clutching their swim-bags and chattering like flocks of birds on a nature programme.
- He let her lead him down the beach, arm in arm, chattering on about her friends, his old friends, weddings, funerals, and graduations.
- I looked at the bird chattering away, looking at my mother. Times, Sunday Times