prattle away

Close your accounts and leave him to prattle away to himself.

Later Eddie did the dishes while his parents prattled away.

Olivia was prattling away happily, making him wait for the big news until they were alone.

Two students were much closer than she, prattling away.

She who'd never been one to chatter, prattling away now like a child:

And the prospect of the world's leaders prattling away while the Earth burns around them is a pretty gloomy one.

The conductor prattled away, telling him how he had happened to overlook him.

The brook was prattling away and crooning to itself.

As she prattled away bin-Shibam's face darkened with concern.

All at once he threw off his abrupt, constrained air, and prattled away nineteen to the dozen.

Serious business lies before us, and you prattle away like spinsters over a pie.'

The answering machine clicked on, prattling away as if nothing was amiss. "

For the first eight months of her tenure, Clinton consistently turned down invitations to prattle away on the Sunday morning talk shows.

Miss Twitt prattled away, as pleased as they were.

I trembled when I heard Christine's voice prattling away in the garden.

So I flap and prattle away until it dawns on me that nobody, including me, is really interested.

"Well, of course," Tas said, prattling away cheerfully.

So they're all prattling away?

- no rock nicks on me," Buster prattled away to Amanda Werner.

'Oh, Mrs Tremayne was pleasant enough,' she prattled away.

But for those who dread the day when airplanes become like trains, with cellphone idiots prattling away at game-show-host decibels, misery may be right behind.

But none of that seems to faze the self-made crime-fighter, who prattles away in fluent English sprinkled with phrases from American mafia movies.

Beulah prattled away continuously, joking and chaffing, until the Tweenies had lost all their shyness and felt as if they had known her forever.

He was not sure just how conscious she was, back there, as she prattled away more and more spitefully: "Why don't you DO something?

Mr. Thomson is a critic equally at ease deconstructing montage sequences in Hitchcock and prattling away about "Jeopardy!"