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.
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  • 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.’
  • The incomplete squamosals also slope laterally and ventrally away from the parietals, slightly depressing posterior margin of the supratemporal fenestrae.
  • But in the remaining six cases, the charges had to be uprated.
  • The government does uprate some tax reliefs. Times, Sunday Times
  • On sale from next month, the new model arrives with an uprated specification list and a lead-in price of £18,513, a slight increase over its predecessors.
  • Clysters he prated on; electuaries; troches; the weed that the Gael of him called _slanlus_ or Doom Castle
  • Since then, they have ceaselessly prated about alternatives including foreign funded NGOism, job placements in the reactionary government, electoral politics and the like to the armed revolution rather than to the oppressive and exploitative ruling system. Introduction to Philippine Economy and Politics - Jose Maria Sison CPP
  • It has been leaked that the Prime Minister wrote to a politician telling him not to assume the Government's pension credit guarantee would continue to be uprated in line with average earnings after 2008.
  • Her aunt, the model upon which she had been formed, was indeed the very essence of insipid formality but the boy was very pert and impudent, and prated without ceasing. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
  • The capitate processes are small and visible through the supratemporal fenestrae dorsally, fitting within fossae in the postorbitals.
  • This is effectively the same as carrying two or three extra passengers around all the time and means ancillary components such as brakes, steering and suspension have more work to do and sometimes have to be uprated.
  • However, he chattered, tattled, and prated with all the seven at once, of different matters, and in divers languages. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • Are you concerned about that aspect combined with a lot of December prate people? CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2010
  • And church and state pause in this made vortex of chaos to prate of the ills of pugilism; to legislate and perorate anent bloodless boxing bouts; to prosecute a brace of harmless pugs. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
  • “This puts me in mind,” said I, “of an Irish pilot who asked the purser of a ship I formerly belonged to, to spare him an empty barrel to make his pig a hencoop, and he would give him a sack of praters for nothing at all, at all.” A Sailor of King George
  • Lateral processes for the postorbitals are short, and a broad sutural contact with the laterosphenoid occurs within the supratemporal space.
  • It is a larger relative of the common wild plant goat's beard, T. pratensis.
  • But we will not uprate the other elements of the working tax credit this coming year. Times, Sunday Times
  • Detailed changes to the front and rear suspension have given the car greater poise through corners, while uprated brakes achieve a 13% improvement in stopping distances.
  • Bearing in mind that this is a heavier car than the other Focus models, Ford has uprated the brakes.
  • Studying strange metals could help scientists better understand how cuprates superconduct at higher temperatures.
  • In the early 1970s workers in London fought for, and won, a commitment that not only was extra money needed to cover the cost of living in London, but that the amount paid would be uprated annually.
  • The thrust of the two turbofan engines on underwing pylons would be uprated or derated to reflect the number of seats, allowing the same engine to be used on all three versions.
  • It appears, then, that the government has uprated pensions only where it has been forced to do so.
  • He was always calm and spoke quite rationally upon any subject except his own profession; but in connexion with that he prated away the merest nonsense. The Survivors of the Chancellor
  • What! a speaker is but a prater; a rhyme is but a ballad. The Life of King Henry the Fifth
  • Our old-age pension will be uprated next month.
  • [2346] Their wives and loveliest daughters constuprated by every base cullion, as Sejanus 'daughter was by the hangman in public, before their fathers and husbands' faces. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • They prate on as if they alone know electromagnetism and the rest of us are blind and ignorant to it. A Prototype Detector for Dark Matter in the Milky Way | Universe Today
  • The more likely ‘reform’ is that the government will simply uprate the bands to take account of house price changes.
  • He who joins in the mutiny is termed a good pilot and what not; they have no conception that the true pilot must observe the winds and the stars, and must be their master, whether they like it or not; — such an one would be called by them fool, prater, star-gazer. The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett
  • Remember those hearts and minds that the lying liars prated about winning. Archive 2008-09-01
  • Is there any blue half so pure, and deep, and tender, as that of the large crane's bill, the geranium pratense of the botanists?
  • Meurer “prated about the honor of their submarine crews being possibly assailed,” Beatty told Eugenie. Castles of Steel
  • Ay, you must know that my husband, he drank, loafed round the parish to roister and prate, wasted and trampled our gear under foot. Peer Gynt
  • First, revisions to inflation will reduce the amounts the government will need to uprate benefits in the future. Times, Sunday Times
  • He suggested using 4.5 per cent, the six-month average of inflation, to uprate benefits instead. Times, Sunday Times
  • Because of the presence of coumarins in some clover species, including Trifolium pratense, tests of clotting factors in future trials may be prudent.
  • Zophar of Naamath reproached thee with being a prater; but none of these good friends lent thee a crown. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • As well, acute pain tends to be a direct result of nociceptive stimulation due to musculoskeletal injury compared to chronic pain, which is more often related to supratentorial processing of neuropathic stimuli.
  • If the hen does not prate, she will not lay. 
  • In Bromfield's 'Flora Vectensis,' p. 35, the following account is given of an abnormal development in _Cardamine pratensis_: "On the lower part of the corymb were several seed vessels on pedicels changed from their usual linear to an ovate elliptical figure, so as to resemble a silicula. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • Diving hap-hazard into his book, Thorny demanded a "trifolium pratense. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, May, 1878, No. 7. Scribner's Illustrated
  • If the hen does not prate, she will not lay. 
  • Regular uprates are important to maintain the real value of a minimum wage.
  • We have had quite a lot of people saying we must uprate it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Kamasho said: ‘We do not recommend that our indexes are used to uprate sums assured for more than perhaps three or five years.’
  • They distinguish temporal entities such as men, plants, and utterances from atemporal entities such as numbers and propositions, and these again from supratemporal beings such as God.
  • The thrust of the two turbofan engines on underwing pylons would be uprated or derated to reflect the number of seats, allowing the same engine to be used on all three versions.
  • I am not afraid I am afraid spend courage tattle and prate.
  • Safety measures include improved passenger restraint systems with eight airbags, uprated road holding and braking, including a speedier operating electronic stability control and special under steer control.
  • And those who prate of spiritual warfare and demons are not just "people of faith" but theocratic bullies. Dozens Of Call Center Workers Walk Off Job In Protest Rather Than Read McCain Script Attacking Obama
  • Instead, an enlarged supratemporal intervenes and forms a sharp projection at the corner of the skull table.
  • Cocksbod, said the steward, we have met with a prater. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • Nothing about Appalachia makes it memorable or distinct, except perhaps the setting, though a reader can find the same setting for a religious dystopia in Lon Prater's 2005 short story, "Deadglass. Archive 2008-08-01
  • Will he not be called by them a prater, a star-gazer, a good-for-nothing? The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett
  • The capitate processes are small and visible through the supratemporal fenestrae dorsally, fitting within fossae in the postorbitals.
  • Employers were forced to uprate these deferred pensions in line with average earnings, or by a fixed rate of 8.5%. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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
  • John Prater, head of the largest North American pilot union, testified that financial pressures – especially if the economy worsens – threaten to inhibit safety programs at certain commuter operations. Airline Officials Tout Safety Improvements Among Commuter Airlines
  • When he got a bit of sunshine, the old lazzarone basked in it; he prated about his own affairs and past splendour, and all the lords, generals, and Lord – Lieutenants he had ever known. The History of Pendennis
  • Cuprates superconduct at much higher temperatures than other materials.
  • Although I am quite able to set this word out of my mind as I write this column, let me prattle awhile from the Low German pratten, “to pout,” and then “to prate, babble, talk idly”. No Uncertain Terms
  • A perennial rhizomatous grass (Poa pratensis) native to Eurasia and North Africa and naturalized throughout the United States. It is commonly cultivated for pasture and lawns.
  • But he ruled the Government was entitled in law to decide not to spend the £300m-plus a year extra it would take to uprate the pensions of all expatriates scattered around the globe.
  • Baan Dvara Prateep is a compound of brand new wooden buildings erected on wooden stilts by the river bank.
  • Jon intends to uprate the suspension over the winter.
  • All enjoyed a meal catered by Prater's Barbeque and musical entertainment provided by the bluegrass and gospel group, the Buck Mountain Boys.
  • The problem with job evaluation is that without extra funding, work that has historically been undervalued (typically performed by low paid women) will not be uprated enough.
  • In contrast, the parent compounds of pnictides are metallic, but like the undoped cuprates they exhibit a quantum magnetic property called antiferromagnetism. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
  • The moment a Conservative government is in office we will send out a clear instruction that the pension should be uprated [raised] by earnings, not prices.
  • And then they had prated about his manner of loving. Villette
  • Even in Europe, pensions are uprated in France but not in neighbouring Andorra or Monaco.
  • The same pople who used to prate about "moral clarity" now argue that we should overlook criminality. Republican calls Holder decision 'bulls**t'
  • These 10 tumors accounted for 3.5% of the adult supratentorial malignant gliomas in the series.
  • It's even worse for them to prate about privacy when it's clearly just a PR move.
  • So much so I called my wife (traveling on business – or so she tells me) and prated like a girl scout who won the cookie sales contest. Greetings From The Scene Of Hillary's Party Tonight
  • Margaritæ: quod ego pluries tentans, accepi de rupe cespitem cum diamante masculo, et femella, plantans in pratello, et frequentans, focillans madefeci de rore Maii. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
  • Phleum pratense (herd's-grass), on carries, at camps and clearings. The Maine Woods
  • I am not afraid I am afraid spend courage tattle and prate.
  • The springs and dampers have also been uprated for the same reasons.
  • In a little town a few miles off, it has been reported that Miss Lydia Prateapace has been obliged to "swear the peace against him," which "swearing the _peace_" is, in most cases, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
  • If the hen does not prate, she will not lay. 
  • But rather than actually examining the things they know in life, they try to prate wise about things they know little of. Archive 2010-01-01
  • A stiffer suspension, uprated big brakes and a six-speed gearbox guarantee an exhilarating driving experience.
  • Blooming in the lawn areas were Calystegia sepium, Capsella bursa-pastoris, Crataegus sp., Matricaria matricarioides, Solanum dulcamara, Taraxacum officinale, Trifolium pratense and T. repens.
  • Bentley having spoken thus, Scaliger, bestowing him a sour look, “Miscreant prater!” said he, The Battle of the Books
  • This adds at least 25 per cent to the torsional stiffness of the bodyshell, making it a really stable platform for the uprated suspension. Making Conversation Friday
  • It was in 1997 that this plant received a $470-million investment - its largest ever - when it was uprated to produce the new Astra.
  • Like the campanula family, the geranium genus is very large with the pratenses forming only a small part of the whole.
  • […] Quem de nós não tem no porão, na garagem ou numa prateleira qualquer um televisor ou computador obsoleto “esquecido”? Global Voices in English » Brazil: Fighting for more recycling with the Electronic Waste Manifesto
  • Even in Europe, pensions are uprated in France but not in neighbouring Andorra or Monaco.
  • Phleum pratense (herd's-grass), on carries, at camps and clearings. The Maine Woods
  • Our culture is riven with ambiguity; we prate of our history but erase anything inconvenient from our collective hard-drive.
  • Those who prate about freedom while kidnapping innocent people off the streets and locking them up in concentrationschlagers don't deserve freedom themselves! Rove Tweets Hunting
  • There are purse-proud penniless ones that stand at the door of the tavern and prate of their feats of winebibbing.
  • & Flettcher who hath the care of him hath prated that that Ile shall be called in our mappe Insula Endymione, but I have geuen order he shall hold his fooles tong lest he engender fear in the saylers, & Crokeham hath benn lain alone in Iota's cabin lest more talke betyde. The Life of the World to Come
  • In other words, you prate about ethics but have no real experience of your own nature, Human Nature. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • This adds at least 25 per cent to the torsional stiffness of the bodyshell, making it a really stable platform for the uprated suspension.
  • Now, following the success of the initial model, the engine has been uprated to match the top-of-the-range engine, providing even more power for your money.
  • Heracleitus and his followers may prate of a world of flux; but there are men to whom the recollections of their fellows ever turn confidently, secure of finding them in the same place; and of such, sir, you are the palmary example among my acquaintance. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756
  • The supratemporal fenestrae are long and narrow.
  • The value of these stocks is uprated each year in line with changes in the retail price index.
  • I am not afraid I am afraid spend courage tattle and prate.
  • The etymology of 'prat' is unclear, but I think it relates to prate 'chatter', which had such derivatives as prater and prattle. On being linguistically defeated
  • I am not afraid I am afraid spend courage tattle and prate.
  • Rarely does an uprated engine or performance-tuned suspension figure in this sort of equation, but a combination of clever marketing and price adjustments keeps these impostors ever-popular.
  • This young woman might talk politics, thought her new friend; no male man would call her prater, while she bore herself with that air. The Testing of Diana Mallory
  • How we dare even prate about democracy is beyond me.
  • There is a small fossa on the postorbital's surface at the anteromedial corner of the supratemporal fossa for the laterosphenoid's capitate process.
  • The Editorial Page is consistently an embarrassment, the Opinion Page hasn't updated their contributor rolodex in decades and the paper carries a gaggle of inside-the-beltway dilettantes who almost never add anything of substance to the debate (you know: Broder, Milbank, Kurtz and the other regurgitators of cocktail party prater on the WP payroll). The Bias That We Fight...
  • _ A species of crow-foot, or ranunculus, growing plentifully in pastures; _ranunculus pratensis. The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire
  • If it had been uprated in line with house price inflation, only those buying houses worth around £143,000 or more would pay stamp duty.
  • The Sports Dynamic Pack gives you re-worked, uprated suspension, brakes, steering, wheels and seats.

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