Blather

//ˈblæðə(ɹ)//

"Blather" in a Sentence (14 examples)

Enough blather; get to the point.

I'd rather get a root canal than listen to this blather.

I have better things to do than listen to this blather.

I hope they're not going to blather on for too long.

I hope Tom isn't going to blather on for much longer; I'm hungry.

“There you go blatherin’,” said Brindle, intending a mild rebuke.

It was at the unveiling of Sir John Gray's statue. Edmund Dwyer Gray was speaking, blathering away, and here was this old fellow, crabbed-looking old chap, looking at him from under his bushy eyebrows.

On and on he blathered, taking refuge in the one thing he felt lent him superiority: words.

Then, just before the wedding, the old man feels he’s honor bound to tell his future son-in-law the secret of his past; so the damned idiot blathers the whole story of his killing the man and breaking jail!

[…] the church attitude has never been that a teacher should be allowed to blather anything that comes into his head without any accountability at all.

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That is the worst of being in an Irish regiment, nothing can be done widout ever so much blather;

Will you cease your blather of mutiny and treason and courts-martial?

With years of proofreading under my belt, I knew exactly the blather and bluster favoured by professional politicians.

1596, Charles Fitzgeoffrey, Sir Francis Drake His Honorable Lifes Commendation, and His Tragicall Deathes Lamentation, Oxford: Joseph Barnes, […] on Vlisses Circe did bestowe A blather, where the windes imboweld were,

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