How To Use Tattle In A Sentence

They're so silly, and they tattle.
Most political diaries are written by politicians themselves but this one records the daily political tittle-tattle told to a wife over the dinner table and is therefore more revealing.
When you take away the sex, drugs and tattletales, the remaining story is very ordinary.
Thanks for your company on this marathon day of tittle-tattle. Transfer window deadline day 2012 – as it happened
Like so much of what's been reported about Lorna Moon, it was largely codswallop, the tittle-tattle of small town gossips.

In 1709 a magazine called Tattler began publication.
Whatever one's views, it's great to rediscover the ability to animate politics through a discussion of ideas rather than personality or passing tittle-tattle.
It wouldn't be until Monday morning that she'd have to face the consequences of being a tattletale.
Not so if it's just so much tittle-tattle about essentially private affairs. News of the World vs. WikiLeaks
So now you're going to play tattletale and report everything to icky Snapey?
The Huffington Post is a zizzy aggregation of celebrity tattle, liberal attitudinising and worthy if unpaid blogs from the relatively great and sometimes good. Huffington's first Post in Britain fails to rally the troops
On shipboard he would be a sneak, a whiner, a tattler. Chapter 3
What drives me up the wall is when the uncouth classes begin their fighting and screeching and petty arguments, or when snide little tattletales run up to me to tell on people.
Tory loyalists pushed out in front of the TV cameras have dismissed this as "tittle-tattle". David Cameron will plough on with the health plan at his peril | Andrew Rawnsley
I with a maddening sense of awkwardness, that was not much bettered by the tattle of the plainstanes, where merchant lads and others made audible comment on the cousinly ardour of young Lachie. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
I counted Bill and Megan Romersma, whose place backed up to ours and whose son, Jared, Puddles and I had ditched earlier, because there was no way we were going to get away with this if that little tattletale had come along. Chicken
This isn't tattletaling, it's much more than that.
And we have to jam the tattletale signals from our mitochondria. VITALS
There was some tittle-tattle a few weeks back that eBay was interested in buying the company.
Love your neighbor signifies assist your neighbor, but not — enjoy his conversation with pleasure, if he be tiresome; confide to him your secrets, if he be a tattler; or lend him your money, if he be a spendthrift. A Philosophical Dictionary
Neither of these scenarios includes Vince, which leads us to suspect that this preposterous piece of tattle of his connection with Amanda is being bruited about by none other than Cyborg himself.
No one wants a nation of tattletales, but even the Phillipsburg police admit that there are situations when citizen law enforcers help protect the community.
She loves to poke her nose into everyone's business. She also likes to be a tattletale, and Albert listens to most of what she says.
A favourite target of this tattle has predictably been the labour boss.
Just how far I have come from my days of respecting Motson was confirmed yesterday where he destroyed all enjoyment of watching the cup final with his mediocre tattle.
But, I'm afraid it will be like when little kids tattle on each other.
The commonest messenger birds named in Hawaiian stories are the plover, wandering tattler, and turnstone, all migratory from about April to August, and hence naturally fastened upon by the imagination as suitable messengers to lands beyond common ken. The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai
Had I wanted to (and had I something to tell), I could've tattled.
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
Mike also wrote that the best way to describe what the Kidd did is that he "tattled" on Mike Woodson - Kidd pointed out to the refs that Woodson was doing something illegal. SLAM Online
Perelman's free-associative style spun fantasias out of girdle ads, tabloid tattle, sleazy pulp fiction and recipe prose.
I headed off to find the incumbent tattletale.
They are tittle-tattle, nothing remotely important.
But Duffy has no truck with those who argue that the player, who is injury-prone and inclined to attract lurid headlines, has little left to offer the sport beyond tears and tabloid tattle.
Some old fogies with no sense of playfulness and humor probably tattletaled.
In an effort to curtail vehicles running red lights, "tattletale" lights have been installed at two intersections in the Burbank area. Local News from union-bulletin.com
She tattled on her estranged husband.
I realize that there are cultural differences at play here since you were raised in the UK, but generally, Canadian children are taught that tattletaling is unacceptable and childish behavior.
He would fight with me over video games and bully me when my parents weren't around, threatening to do worse things if I tattled on him. Twenty-three-year-olds Shouldn't Be Writing Memoirs
It was a weapon and a gift, handed back and forth by the dancers, who fought and flirted, worried and tattletaled.
Take, for example, the latest bit of groundless tattle.
Today, TVTattle informs us that the man who plays Jack Bauer on 24, the man we’ve seen go from young punk to older, grizzlier punk, turns 40. Happy 40th Birthday: Kiefer Sutherland | Best Week Ever
Tighter money and higher interest rates will not be needed for much longer, they tattled.
I reckon the gossip surrounding her breasts is just that - idle tittle-tattle.
Once the locals found out-and one wonders who in God's name tattled on the good men of AVN Industry News
She would, she promised herself, rip the tattletale who had ratted on her from limb to limb.
Nothing… well, she can't get in trouble for being a tattletale.
Those kinds of convos even if they are accurate, do not need to be tattled to the public. Carville takes aim at latest tell-all on Bush
Still, a waitress in a diner, who has a daughter who dates the television tattler, and a grandbaby that's in desperate need of a diaper change, may have something to do with it.
Eastern Willet, Tringa s. semipalmata synonym; Catoptrophorus semipalmatus, formerly; Symphemia semipalmata, protonym; Scolopax semipalmata, also known as the semipalmated tattler or simply as the willet, photographed at Bolivar Peninsula, Texas, USA. Mystery bird: eastern willet, Tringa s. semipalmata
The original Tattler articles on Edwin Gray were at the Rex Research site, which hosts hundreds of documents on contemporary arcana.
In an age of lurid, kiss-and-tell celebrity tittle-tattle, the gentle contours of a smoothly flowing career and the discreet details of a happy, lasting marriage are hardly the material of a bestseller.
The new "tattletale" lights were installed last week on Highway 12 at the intersections of Highway 124 and Humorist Road in Burbank. Tri-City Herald: Front
To ensure he still had a roof over his head, he would have needed to have a sound idea of how his lord felt about others, and to enable him to avoid any clangers, he would have been privy to much gossip and tittle-tattle.
In an age of lurid, kiss-and-tell celebrity tittle-tattle, the gentle contours of a smoothly flowing career and the discreet details of a happy, lasting marriage are hardly the material of a bestseller.
In lieu of direct experience, social tittle-tattle allows people to learn about others across a very wide group, the team say. Pssst ...The human brain is wired for gossip
Opera Tattler finds the characters caricatures and the production "overwrought," with the music unfocussed and too much in the background. Archive 2008-09-01
The tattle and titillation only makes him redouble attempts to disclose his real self and we're slowly becoming suffocated under the continued weight of his effort.
He was their spy, their tattletale, their loyal little grunt in the ever present Boys vs Girls feud that was undoubtedly more vicious than any dreamed up by professional wrestling scriptwriters.
But I gotta be careful because I am not a tattletale and I ain't tryin' to make no enemies.
These kind of stories come from tittle-tattle in pubs, or from something as simple as the way a player hangs his head when he walks off the pitch.
He tattled to the governor of Pennsylvania that the general was most judiciously chosen for being disqualified for the service he is employed in in almost every respect. George Washington’s First War
In a city of few wallflowers, she has the most enticing dance card of all and - like any celluloid high-school heroine - has overcome personal tragedy, tittle-tattle and bad boyfriends in order to get there.
Tattle: GMA gives its viewers a short-term mammary REIGNING RAP diva Nicki Minaj channeled Janet Jackson on "Good Morning America" yesterday when she experienced a full-on nipple slip. PhillyDeals
All contestants will be apprised that “informing,” otherwise known as tattling, will not elicit parental disciplinary action against the “tattlee.” You’re a Better Parent Than You Think!
It wasn't the fear of being a tattletale or anything that held me back.
Unfortunately, I can remember being taught, “No one likes a tattletale” in kindergarten by my teacher. Live Blog from the Anchor Desk 10/01/09
Despite this he added: ‘What's important to me is not who does a particular job but that we get the message across and I'm not going to get involved in tittle-tattle and gossip about who does what.’
The penalty for such a violation was for the immediate surrender of the paper, which was soon retrieved by the stealth "tattletale" who was hovering on the periphery as his rival was subjected to disciplinary action. Timesunion.com: Local Breaking News
And at least one tattler has described listening in to the tape itself.
News Daily News Tattle Columnist MICHELLE "Bombshell" McGee has been in the nonnews a lot recently - she's a far more important story WN.com - Business News
Reporting objectionable contents or activities has nothing to do with being a "tattletale" or "stoolpigeon", contrary to what is sometimes discussed in forums. XING Blog » English
Miss Kitt should never have been subjected to the abuse of their powers by the F.B.I. and the C.I.A., who, under the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson, wasted much public money by trying to gather into the relevant files grossly stupid tittle-tattle, in a sinister, surprisingly effective, but fortunately short-lived effort to destroy her career; long enough, however, to do Miss Kitt much damage. Archive 2009-01-01
I am not afraid I am afraid spend courage tattle and prate.
My interest in talking about Keira, however, is not to add to the stockpile of tabloid tittle-tattle.
When kids tattle , they carry the stuffed tail with them for a portion of the day.
I continued to tease, tattle, forget, overdo, throw tantrums, and do everything that those books told me not to do. Let’s Talk About It–Again! « Awful Library Books
Then again, maybe none of this matters and if we have to fill our lives with something, it may as well be acrimonious tittle-tattle about the famous, the sort of famous and those desperately seeking attention.
Besides, Santa doesn't tattletale on anyone, not even reindeers.
Tattle: Imagine Latifah & Snooki whirling on 'Dancing' floor "DANCING with the Stars," perhaps in a bid to live up to its title yuk, yuk, will deal with a whole new caliber of celebrity for the 13th season. PhillyDeals
‘Jessie,’ I say, annoyed, ‘I don't like tattlers.’
I was never usually a tattletale, but I really wanted to see Rose Marie get busted for this one.
This local sleazy hack would also love to know if the tattle is true.
I deplored the way that, when the two of us were alone together, he would listen to tittle-tattle for hours on end when he must have known full well that not only was it disloyal to the victims but that both of us had more important things to do.
Hopi legend says that the spirit of an old woman resides here, tattletaling on any misbehaving tribes.
What is certain is that we've all had more than enough of his tactless tattle.
Those that love to boast of their business and make a noise about it, and that waste their time in tittle-tattle, in telling and hearing new things, like the Athenians, and, under pretence of improving themselves by conversation, neglect the work of their place and day, they waste what they have, and the course they take tends to penury, and will end in it. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
The tattle of society did its best to place the peccant husband above the suffering wife. My Aunt Margaret's Mirror
It is a fascinating read - serious observations on the latest political developments and possible ways of developing theoretical ideas, alongside tittle-tattle, gossip, complaints about the weather and even laundry lists.
What these documents add is gossip and tittle-tattle between the negotiators. Letters: Palestine leak and the peace process
They always want to cloud the issue with facts and figures, spoiling what should be a hot and heavy session of tittle-tattle with words like ‘truth’ and ‘proof’.
More unworthy tattle emerges about his godson.
The buzz out of Washington is that she and the anchorman had been tattletaling on each other.
The views of a union leader about a major strike hardly counts as tittle-tattle.
I wrote to Charles Brooks at Concoco Phillips and tried to tattletale, but without any real evidence, I'm sure it was less than convincing.
That outburst---and her "nanny nanny boo boo, Barb's an alcoholic" tattle-taling after the disastrous school board meeting where she is exposed as a bottom-threatener---keep Nicki from being Wife of the Week, but her furious, flailing relinquishment of power stokes the drama in scene after scene. Mark Blankenship: Big Love Wife Watch!: Season 5, Ep. 1
This is the proper Guadeloupe, where the tiny rum shops are open to all callers day and night for a little tipple and tattle.
When she turned and saw him in the house, still wet, the little tattletale opened her mouth to call her mother but her older sister threw the pillow at her to stop her.
Companies don't expect their HR departments to be ‘tattlers’ (the decent ones don't).
‘The one sitting next to you’ she points at my other side like a tattletale.
All these tattlers would do better to consider less subjective reasons for the Scotsman's sales problems.
The "tattletale" lights will make it easier for troopers to enforce traffic laws for failing to stop at red lights and failing to yield the right of way, he said. Tri-City Herald: Front
In ‘D.W. Blows the Whistle,’ the three adventures resolve problems with tattletaling and name-calling.
The man is to music bloggers what pissed Whitehall tittle-tattle is to Westminster diarists. Kanye West's Runaway: Purple Rain or bird brains?
Pressure the school to gradually change its culture, so that showing concern is labeled as being heroic, rather than being a tattler. Childhood Unbound
Weaving through all this tittle-tattle is a narrative.
What amusement will our tattle of her later bring us!
You could take the low road and tattle on Phil in purchasing.
Stumble across us and go tattle to the principal!
If we did not think they were full of tattle, we would not be linking to them.
It's a strange combination of gossip and in-house tittle-tattle.
Really, this whole to-do might well have been just another volley in the site's regular stream of tattle, only it spun way out of control.
During my playing career, what passed as scandals were more along the lines of tabloid tittle-tattle than criminal investigations.
And now I get to go back to work tomorrow faced with the dilemma of tattlin on the tattler to my own boss or playing dumb about it. Stuff I Don’t Like « Hilarity Ensues
If the clerk continues to overlook you, find the manager and tattle!
One crisp November afternoon, she summoned her lovers to her bedside bistro for tea and tattle.
Also, I want to have a section for undesirable behaviors, such as tattletaling, repeating requests & attitude.
You write lying shit, and the Tattler is an ass wipe!
It's marketed under the trade name "Tattle".
Gossip can be the malicious spreading of misinformation, but unsubstantiated tittle-tattle is sometimes all we have to go on. Readers recommend: songs about gossip
Sure, I moaned about how everyone was tattletaling like grade-schoolers.
The problem is, I don't want to hurt my friend, nor do I want this other person to know that I "tattled" on her. Winnipeg Sun
And she may gain some idea what the many targets of News of the World tittle-tattle and tell all stories may have felt. Dan Ehrlich: Jail/Hollywood Her Next Career Moves?
Jonas does not like Pierre very much because he is ‘very serious, not much fun, and a worrier and tattletale.’
This kitchen table tittle-tattle had no public interest justification.
Regina asked, trying to sound like she does not care anymore, but deep inside, she was wondering if Serafina was able to read her mind again or if some tattletale had told her.
But I have a hunch who tattletaled because that person's call backfired one evening.
I like the quote from the intelligence tittle-tattler: In this business nothing is unlikely. Rock steady
He had lined up an exclusive deal with society tattle rag VIP but the deal fell through.
He would become known to thousands of regular viewers as an extremely witty man with a wicked, often cutting sense of humour that deconstructed the celebrity tittle-tattle the programme was forced to report on.
The tittle-tattle brigade is laughing all the way to the latest social do.
But running to the mods and tattletaling on them is just puerile.
Then he weaseled out, ran to Newt and tattletaled on the other coup leaders after he realized his coup partners wouldn't back him for Speaker.
I am not afraid I am afraid spend courage tattle and prate.
It's marketed under the trade name "Tattle".
Wired has an entertaining celebrity tattler piece on how Hollywood's big names behave when they're in the Apple store.
Someone tattles on them, a human at the search engines gets involved and then - bam!
He is flicking idly through the tabloid tittle-tattle, recounting a story of marital strife, laughing at the expense of others, and yet again avoiding work.
It was she — the foolish tattler — who had set the report abroad regarding the poor Indian woman. The Virginians
Perelman's free-associative style spun fantasias out of girdle ads, tabloid tattle, sleazy pulp fiction and recipe prose.
That might be a nice plot, though one flaw in your reasoning - someone probably tattletaled.
And, Dennis, if you weren't being a ‘snitch’ by tattletaling, on me, to the Webslave, what were you doing?
‘You're a tattletale,’ Blake cross his arms over his chest.
I hope they don't look at it that way," Lorentzen says when asked about the "tattletale" accusations sure to follow. Latest News
The kid burst into tears, and ran back to wherever his mom was to go tattle on him.
They smiled at his name transiently, but in agreement: the tattler-spout of their set was, a fatal person to encounter, and each deemed the sudden apparition of him in the very early morning along the Carlsruhe road rather magical. The Amazing Marriage — Complete
Thundering flickers of light flashed across the late night sky, the tattle tale sign of the oncoming storm.
All because the teachers never did a damn thing, and if you tattletaled you were the one who either got ignored, shrugged off and told to deal with it or you got into trouble.
Gibson seems to have been ubiquitous in the tittle-tattle press recently, and absolutely none of it is positive. Will Hangover 2 cameo give Mel Gibson more headaches?
Partly it's because I feel a profound sadness when reading accounts by recently-returned-from-somewhere tattletales.
A tattler is worse than a thief.
I tattled on her (I never do it otherwise), I did not like it one bit, but I had to show her how much it hurts that you cannot ever trust your own sister.
I turned around and saw Andrew, a tattletale ever since he came in the sixth grade.
He is not a whit less a tattler and a scandal monger than the old Roman tonsor or Figaro, his confrère in Southern Europe. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
And if you do, I'm gonna go tattle on you to mom and dad!
I am not afraid I am afraid spend courage tattle and prate.
Don't be such a tattler, Chloe, or you'll have to stay in at recess. Obama: U.S., Russia 'quite close' to forging new START treaty
If the action gets too intense, sit out and lick your lollipop or just tattle on the others.
I am not afraid I am afraid spend courage tattle and prate.
I was so angry at her because she went and tattletaled on me, and needless to say she never ratted on herself.
Eastern Willet, Tringa s. semipalmata synonym; Catoptrophorus semipalmatus, formerly; Symphemia semipalmata, protonym; Scolopax semipalmata, also known as the semipalmated tattler or simply as the willet, photographed at Bolivar Peninsula, Texas, USA. Mystery bird: eastern willet, Tringa s. semipalmata
Since they don't want to have it happen to them, they figure that if they are silent, they wont be known as tattletales.
First it was the Danish cartoons that outraged the Muslim community, and now an Austrian named Manfred Deix has drawn the ire of the Catholics: the Viennese archdiocese has 'tattled' on him to the public prosecutor for violating the National Socialist Prohibition Act and for degrading religion (it's in German; there is a horrible Google translation). Pharyngula
Today I shall try to be on the alert not to speak an untruth, not to gossip or tattletale, and not to speak disparagingly about another person.
That gives me hope the next time an article such as this is printed it will be the women themselves discussing what they want, what they can do, and not looking like whiny girls who tattletaled.
It's marketed under the trade name "Tattle".
He felt that they were just jealous and, anyway, he doesn't like tattlers so he decided to arrive early.
Alex has just tattled on Meredith and she has just screwed with the Alzheimer's trial, but there will still be tons and tons of drama associated with this whole run for Chief Resident. Grey's Anatomy's Season Finale: Meredith's Misdeed Tears Seattle Grace Apart
The lovestruck Liberals paid this petty tattle no mind and even bought a house together last spring.
It leads to the Daley Bicentennial Plaza, named for the mayor's tattler, the legendary Richard J. Daley, the city's mayor and political boss for 21 years ending in 1976.

How To Use Tattle In A Sentence

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