How To Use Natter In A Sentence
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This link is sort of off-topic but really not, as it's yet another case (as in the present one) of the media doing their level best to shout down "the critics" -- the nattering nabobs of negativism -- and then, years later, admitting that the "gadflies" were right all along, and that what looked like a scam, walked like a scam, and quacked like a scam was -- quelle surprise!
Funky math with Mark Larabee (Jack Bog's Blog)
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Sedan blev dagarna allt kortare, nätterna syntes utan slut, dagsljuset blev matt och grått.
Christian de Duve - Banquet Speech
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If something dramatic has happened during the day, we'll sit and natter about it.
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This is once again the natterings of those most threatened by the rise of social media, who see their business model being sideswiped by something large and fast-moving, but whose exact shape and dimensions they cannot fathom.
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Sometimes she would pick up the telephone and natter to Charles.
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It was fun, nattering on about my various writing projects and reflecting on my day's work.
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Natterjack toads have recently been established in a shallow pool dug on the heath.
A Guide to Britain's Conservation Heritage
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The tea room natter also serves to keep the audience intrigued and alert.
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He is happiest with guests who like a natter.
Times, Sunday Times
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Giggling, Rebecca flicked her hair over her shoulder, her dark eyes dancing mischievously as she nattered on to Blake.
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A 10% increase in reading speed means that you've got 10% more time to spend nattering with your colleagues over coffee.
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I like cricket, I like sitting on the boundary with a cold beer, nattering with my friends, half an eye on the game, getting burned because I forgot the sun cream.
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The Lunch Group is to try out a local hostelry at the end of the month and our usual groups for Scrabble, knit-and-natter and the play reading will take place this month.
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In due course I'll have a natter here about the whole tie-in thang, in all its controversial glory.
Phew! Head space is all cleared again ...
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Maybe these antediluvian creatures were having a good old natter about the ammonite down the road and then WHAM they got fossilised?
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At one point I was worried Ronnie wasn't going to recover and I would go round to Stephanie's and have a good cry or a natter.
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Anyhow, we ate our curries and noodles and nattered away for a fair few hours, catching up on all the things we've missed.
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Vienna: 1999; Natter, Tobias G. and Gerbert Frodl, ed. Klimt und die Frauen.
Adele Bloch-Bauer.
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She's constantly nattering on about her plans for the weekend and what she plans to cook.
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So you send email, you ring your friends, and you have a natter round the coffee machine.
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There are three native species of frogs and toads in the UK the common toad, common frog and natterjack toad.
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Then the picture that will go into the Windsor archives was taken - while Charles disappeared from the historic scene, nattering.
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But the bus driver's mate jumped on and they started nattering.
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After studying at University College London, Brandy traveled to Scotland to do research on the natterjack toad for her dissertation, earning herself a Masters degree in Conservation.
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We sat down and had a natter and a cup of tea.
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The television voices nattered on about Middle East peace talks, of a terrorism suspect captured, of the latest results from a television game show.
Rogue Oracle
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And the two young ladies kept on nattering on about hair fashion all the time pretending not to see an old man standing close by.
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Had quite a nice lunch and a natter with Owen; he seems to be enjoying life in Britain.
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What's the topic of conversation when a group of new mums get together for a natter?
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She said: ‘I'll miss having a natter with the teachers but I won't miss having to get up at half-past six!’
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I am allowed to natter on about theory because I have been virtuous: eaten, napped, and prologued.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
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But jenny is a moralizing, fundamentalist "christian" nattering about morals.
Jenny Sanford on her husband: 'The ball is in his court'
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As she said of herself, she believed she grew more "nattered" as she grew older; but that she was conscious of her "natteredness" was
Ruth
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So, there I was, trying to work and there she was, nattering on about how it was colder than the time she'd spent in some place in America which I can't remember.
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I see him over thonder and I need to have a natter with him.
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He is happiest with guests who like a natter.
Times, Sunday Times
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And he took what may have been a swipe at fellow word maven William Safire for putting the phrase "nattering nabobs of negativism" into the vice president's mouth.
NBC News Correspondent Was Tart-Tongued Grammar Guru
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Finally, Miss Twitterton, tearful but nattered, was conveyed to Pagford by Bunter in the car, with her bicycle perched ‘high and disposedly’ upon the back seat.
Busman's Honeymoon
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Buni comes round for a natter, in lieu of the lunch I've had to cancel.
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They would sit around the table at night playing cards, nattering away in Italian and Anglo-Italian " pidgin ".
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The natterjack toads will be otherwise engaged in their neighbouring site of special scientific interest.
Times, Sunday Times
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The nattering nabobs of negativity can stay home. — joyce louden
How Lavish Should the Inauguration Be? - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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Now for something completely different for those of you who are getting weary of the political natter.
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A man grabs my shoulder and starts nattering at me in Swedish.
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We walked and spent the whole evening last night nattering about him.
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We went to the village, to sit outside and natter, boozily.
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Tim Pawlenty nattered on about something, but even he didn't take an opportunity to ask for patience on Afghanistan.
Republicans Return to Reality
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The cabin crew often seem more interested in nattering among themselves than in being attentive to passengers.
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A bunch of eighteen-year-olds, nattering about parents: ‘They don't understand me.’
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Only… these were the same ones you were nattering with last night.
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It's the kind of place you could meet your mates on a Saturday lunchtime for a natter and nachos, or have an early tea after work, as we did.
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It's just more hooey from the nattering nabobs of negativity.
Republicans react to jobless report
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One of my wife's sisters was also present, nattering at my older brother about something.
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The cabin crew often seem more interested in nattering among themselves than in being attentive to passengers.
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Ninety percent of them are nattering slack-jawed bandersnatches, so why would we want more of them?
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There were several pit stops on the way for cups of relaxing mint tea and a natter with local characters and shopkeepers.
The Sun
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I'm a big fan of metallic money, been collecting all my life, so please don't dismiss me as some disgruntled nattering numismatist of negativism.
Jeffrey Shaffer: Some Change Requires Deep Pockets
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23:31 Sky has begun its coverage, and will presumably be showing some of the red carpet stuff in a bit, but at the moment it's Edith Bowman, Robbie Collin of the News of the World, someone called "Brix Smith-Start" - a "fashion expert", apparently - and their presenter Alex Zane nattering away about what who they think will win what.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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But it's just one step too far in terms of yattering about work (you see, I natter about the trivial and the personalities, but never about the substance, and almost never about the policies).
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The barman eventually stops nattering to his mates and notices us waiting, but that's the price you pay for being in a real pub, with real regulars, I tell myself.
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Biologists and planners collaborated there to identify a "habitat backbone" system of permanent wetlands to support habitat for natterjack toads.
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My cousin nattered through my cottage door, How will I placate the Doge?
The Doge’s Gold Statue « A Fly in Amber
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I felt very, very alive, and so desperate to speak with an intelligent, creative woman that I rang a friend back home for a good natter.
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So we publicly nattered and yammered at each other for a while, both of us enjoying it immensely, I suspect, and had the occasional b/c chat about more personal matters.
Archive 2009-08-01
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Once he starts nattering you just can't stop him.
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There is a big reserve of natterjack toads in Formby, for example, but it will get too dry for them to survive.
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The earliest entry, for 1900, is 'natterer', to describe 'a person who fusses or natters; a chatterer'.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were seats full of teenagers nattering about boys, homework and clothes.
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And only in America could a man who has called the corporatized, in-the-tank, mainstream media his "base" -- the media that made him its darling and hailed him for his supposed "straight talk" -- run against that very same media, bashing it figuratively while "peace officers" were doing so quite literally in the streets of St. Paul, in a manner unseen since the 60s and the Chicago days of Daley and the subsequent Nixonian "nattering nabobs of negativity" era.
Rory O'Connor: Beating the Press -- Literally
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Sometimes she would pick up the telephone and natter to Charles.
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But other than that, remember folks, it's been a huge success and anybody who doesn't see it that way is a nattering nabob of negativism.
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We also had a natter about psychology and the Mediterranean diet.
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lovely - another really cool project suggestion that just BEGS the nattering nabobs to call lifehacker stupid and irresponsible for posting it, and anyone else stupid and irresponsible for even considering it.
Build A Ping-Pong Pistol | Lifehacker Australia
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I mean, we've nattered a bit, but we've never met and chances are we never will.
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‘I'm not stopping,’ chirrups the visitor who settles down for a cuppa and a natter with her coat on.
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Each lunchtime he would go to Mario's, his local caff in Kentish Town, for a natter with the locals.
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About half the bats at St Hilda's are natterer's alongside brown long-eared bats and two types of pipistrelle.
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Sometimes she would pick up the telephone and natter to Charles.
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Green hairstreak butterflies are a feature of early summer when natterjack toads may be breeding in shallow pools.
A Guide to Britain's Conservation Heritage
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It feels a bit like when you're in a supermarket and, by the fruit and veg, you bump into somebody you know well enough to stop and have a natter.
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We walked and spent the whole evening last night nattering about him.
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The foolish question of whether a bunch of politicians nattering on about an incremental policy shift "discourages" the troops.
John McQuaid: Unwind the Coil of Denial on Iraq
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Coming to bingo is the only chance I get to relax, chill out and have a bit of a natter with my friends or family.
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The only endangered species of amphibian is the natterjack toad.
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Noel made sure that he popped into his grandparents for an enjoyable natter.
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We spent close to 3 hours laughing and nattering away about nothing in particular.
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enraptured," a concept that, naturally, puzzles a nattering TV anchor.
The Online News Page
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Nationwide, it is hoped the scheme will boost the habitats of species such as the grey partridge, twite, natterjack toad, sandbowl snail and lesser silver water beetle.
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He used to go to Beckhill Working Men's Club and have a natter with Donald because he knew what nights he went there.
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Iain's dad and I work together, so no doubt we will be nattering about England's progress at every opportunity.
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Many of them are elderly and have nowhere to go and have a natter.
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It's a shame we didn't have time for a natter when we'd done, but my next guest was waiting and we had to move on.
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Susan and the girl were still nattering away in German.
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There were several pit stops on the way for cups of relaxing mint tea and a natter with local characters and shopkeepers.
The Sun
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She sits in the far corner of his player's box so she can't hear other people nattering "inanely" about tennis.
AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
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As soon as he recognised her he gave her a peck on the cheek and stopped for a natter.
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Jay and Bud are making something in the kitchen, nattering like old friends.
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In the 60-second version, we'll probably hear about nations nattering, tyrants tittering, liberals limpening, clergy cloistering, and Democrats dawdling.
New Rudy Ad: He Was Stronger Than The Rest Of The World On 9/11
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The tenor of the bird's incessant natter changed suddenly, becoming pure corvine terror.
Soldiers Live
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The earliest entry, for 1900, is 'natterer', to describe 'a person who fusses or natters; a chatterer'.
Times, Sunday Times
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We sat down and had a natter and a cup of tea.
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Yesterday I nattered about some frustrations in how libraries, especially mine, shelve their comics collections.
Comics Publishers Don’t Make It Easy for Cataloguers
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And that's precisely the reason old people love to yarn and natter with youngsters.
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This link is sort of off-topic but really not, as it's yet another case (as in the present one) of the media doing their level best to shout down "the critics" -- the nattering nabobs of negativism -- and then, years later, admitting that the "gadflies" were right all along, and that what looked like a scam, walked like a scam, and quacked like a scam was -- quelle surprise!
Funky math with Mark Larabee (Jack Bog's Blog)
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Besides the occasional natter over a game of cribbage, they generally shot grouse together in the fall and poached salmon in the spring.
CORMORANT
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I stayed at home with my mum, and we had a good natter.
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Around her, they chattered, nattered, muttered… and laughed.
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If something dramatic has happened during the day, we'll sit and natter about it.
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Once he starts nattering you just can't stop him.
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It was a great comfort to my mother - they had a grand natter over a cup of tea.
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Despite Cumbria Wildlife Trust creating just the right conditions for natterjacks at Eskmeals, there are many animals happy to take the bite-sized toad for their dinner.
