palaver

How To Use palaver In A Sentence

• Presently he called on his comrades to stop, and held with them a long palaver, in which the French horn seemed to be an objector, and the trombone an assenter, while the key-bugle didn't seem to care. Shifting Winds A Tough Yarn
• After exiting the rear of the cave, we sat palavering between precipices of glacial ice and a slope of rock and snow.
• Two of the uakaris exchanged a glance and palavered softly among themselves. The Mocking Program
• We are speaking of Thoreau's case for calluses on writers: "I find incessant labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, the best method to remove palaver out of one's style. Christopher Lydon: Damion Searls: A Thoreau Journal for Writers & Moderns (AUDIO)
• getting into each building was a bit of a palaver
• Organizing the annual office lunch was such a palaver, I swore I'd never do it again.
• Or perhaps it was here, watching them even as they palavered and Nigel returned with various writing implements. The Dark Tower
• The big polytonal palaver of folk-tunes in Biber's "Battalia. Salvati dunque e scolpati
• She did not care whether they had beer or orange juice, making all this palaver over nothing was fun. GWENDOLEN
• There was no introductory palaver, he went on stage and went straight into the music and song.