[ UK /pɹˈe‍ɪt/ ]
NOUN
  1. idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
VERB
  1. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
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How To Use prate In A Sentence

  • Yorkshire abused by such a pitiful prater; and when wrought up to a certain pitch, she would turn and say something of which neither the matter nor the manner recommended her to Mr. Donne's good - will. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
  • Child benefit was uprated in line with inflation too.
  • The fused parietals form the posterior two-thirds of the sagittal crest, expanding posteriorly to form a flattened, sculpted deck behind the supratemporal fenestrae adjacent to the squamosals.
  • When the cup of human life is so overflowing with woe and pain and misery, it seems to me a narrow dilettanteism or downright charlatanism to devote one's self to petty or bizarre problems which can have no relation to human happiness, and to prate of self-satisfaction and self-expression. Woman Her Sex and Love Life
  • But because the Government has only uprated tax bands in line with inflation, rather than average earnings, which tend to rise faster, the number of people paying higher rate tax has risen from 2 million ten years ago, to 3.4 million today.
  • The two supratemporal fenestrae begin to close, getting smaller, sometimes asymmetrically.
  • And then also specifically on the capital market there you know, in terms of caprate as well as the lending environment? SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • For know that I am proud and revengeful and lascivious, and I prate even as thou.
  • I do not suppose you will have any occasion to renovate the turf in any part of your park; but, if you should, the best way is to get a mixture of the seeds of several sorts of grasses, such as the fox-tail meadow grass (Alopecùrus praténsis), the sweet-scented vernal grass (Anthoxánthum odoràtum), the crested dog's-tail grass (Cynosùrus cristàtus), and other valuable kinds. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
  • He concluded, ‘the remedy of the expatriate United Kingdom pensioners who do not receive uprated pensions is political not judicial.’
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