How to Use chatter in a Sentence

chatter

1 of 2 verb
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  • Birds chattered in the trees.
  • My teeth were chattering from the cold.
  • Children chattered in the middle of the playground.
  • The web is full of chattering bots, but which is the most useful and for what?
    — James Vincent, The Verge, 24 Mar. 2023
  • She’s not one to chatter on about her woes to a customer.
    — Liz Balmaseda, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Mar. 2021
  • The teeth-chattering thrum of machinery drowned out the roar of cars on the freeway.
    — Matthias Gafni, SFChronicle.com, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Dozens of birds sat in the treetops and chattered loudly to each other.
    — Peter Kujawinski, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The woman lifted her reefer from the stump and wrapped it tight around her breasts, but still her teeth chattered.
    — Lisa Wells, Harper’s Magazine , 15 Mar. 2023
  • Boardwalks and bridges span ravines filled with chattering streams and turquoise pools.
    — Hotel Bellwether, The Seattle Times, 30 May 2017
  • Some of the teams paddled in silence; some chattered to stave off fatigue.
    — Max Ufberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
  • The time on the range was extended by Billy Horschel, who came over for a big hug and began to chatter away.
    — Steve Dimeglio, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2022
  • My jaw clenched, my breath quickened, my teeth chattered.
    — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The bird was loudly chattering, perhaps in search of food.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Note when your brain starts to chatter with anxiety and bring your focus back to your body.
    — New York Times, 20 July 2021
  • The place is packed with young families and chattering teenagers.
    — Suzy Khimm, Esquire, 9 Apr. 2017
  • That translates to an overly rigid ride that’s prone to chatter and reduced edge hold.
    — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Grackles flit and chatter beyond the razor-wire fences.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Cayla is a blond, bright-eyed doll that chatters about horses and hobbies.
    — Kimiko De Freytas-Tamura, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2017
  • Lovers gazed into each other’s eyes, and friends chattered over bottles of wine.
    — Iona Brannon, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Eli Roth is taking his teeth-chattering talent for horror to the small screen.
    — Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE.com, 24 Aug. 2017
  • When Mel stops by the bar, Jack's serving a hipster couple who chatter about glamping in an Airstream.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 20 July 2022
  • Flocks of chattering African gray parrots, more than a thousand flashes of red and white on gray at a time, were a common sight in the deep forests of Ghana in the 1990s.
    — James Akena, National Geographic, 5 Feb. 2016
  • Cam Newton calls the shots Newton hasn’t just been chattering away to the Panthers’ defense this week.
    — Jourdan Rodrigue, charlotteobserver, 15 June 2017
  • The graduates in the first few rows mostly chattered and showed one another things on their phones.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Little kids, chattering away, feed a cookie to one via a metal pipe, then leave.
    — Jude Isabella, Smithsonian, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The intense hue of a blue jay contrasts sharply with the aspen yellows as the birds chatter noisily while feeding.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2020
  • The radar girls swing up the lane, dressed and made up, Victory rolls and painted-on stocking seams, chattering and laughing.
    — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 31 Mar. 2018
  • Jhonathan Valencia and Dangelyn Vargas, two 25-year-old actors who both live nearby, stopped at the base of the steps to take in the scene of chattering tourists.
    — Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The best part of my day is listening to my mother and my son chattering back and forth, a sort of baby–old lady call-and-response.
    — Deborah E. Kennedy, Good Housekeeping, 3 May 2019
  • At Fumi, one of the more popular joints, the floors are packed with over a hundred people chattering away and chowing down.
    — Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 27 Aug. 2023
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chatter

2 of 2 noun
  • The courthouse square buzzes with live music and the din of chatter on a Friday night.
    — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Nov. 2023
  • There is little chatter, the sounds of drills and pickaxes fill the air.
    — Stuart Ramsay, NBC News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • There’s also a way to get a recap of the chatter that has been going on in channels.
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Sitting up there in the morning, as the sun got stronger and the chatter from the street rose up, was the kind of luxury that is so hard to pin down.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2023
  • And that chatter, in turn, led Kat to pull throw herself into the pit once more — this time the viper pit that is Twitter.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2023
  • For months, there was chatter about John Corbett, a.k.a.
    — Sarah Felbin, Women's Health, 1 June 2023
  • Complete with police chatter in the background and all the right details.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Hearing a whole lot of chatter about these Gutenberg hats.
    — Vulture Staff, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The Princess’s cancer announcement fell over the chatter of the past few weeks like a bucket of cold water.
    — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2024
  • But is there any truth behind all the social media chatter?
    — Lindy Segal, harpersbazaar.com, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Hopefully, Jack, like his mom, has learned to tune out the unhelpful chatter.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Tip-to-tail carbon stringers help cut through chatter, and the Extrude 2000 base flows smoothly on packed snow, with rocker curves at the tip and tail to enable float.
    — Nathan Borchelt, Travel + Leisure, 21 Dec. 2023
  • However, chatter of a potential delay had been in the air for weeks as the actors strike stretched into the fall.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 10 Nov. 2023
  • At certain points, the recordings pick up clacks on the floorboards, tapes winding, studio chatter.
    — Leah Lu, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2024
  • And on Threads, the language is friendly, trendy internet slang—with a side of self-promotion and brand-on-brand chatter.
    — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 19 July 2023
  • The brakes squeaked, and the train jerked, making any untethered china and crystal chatter like winter teeth.
    — Adam Erace, Travel + Leisure, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Another student, speaking above the chatter, looked at her cell phone and read a lengthy entry about the center.
    — Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The health chatter was all about fat and carbs; children routinely subsisted on a single pouch of Capri Sun a day.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2023
  • As Bethlehem Haile tries to wrangle a group of 30 girls into a practice room, her voice is nearly drowned out by the sound of chatter.
    — Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The week’s shockingly warm weather allowed for the windows to stay open, letting sounds from the streets of Paris seep into the party chatter.
    — Eliseé Browchuk, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Gauff had been keeping notice of who was watching her matches in the stands and the chatter on social media but there was one reach out that could stand apart from the rest.
    — Joshua Hoyos, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Many of the roughly 800 employees got the word over the weekend, sparking chatter on social media.
    — Jura Koncius, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Ignore the chatter on Black Twitter and give Magical Negroes a shot.
    — Kui Mwai, Essence, 29 Jan. 2024
  • There’s been much chatter this year about the merits of garnering employee trust.
    — Amber Burton, Fortune, 26 July 2023
  • Horan, however, got the upper hand: the ensuing corner kick to shut down the chatter.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 27 July 2023
  • Online chatter about lead in the cups arose after some consumers posted results of at-home lead tests on their tumblers.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 29 Feb. 2024
  • But Rau-Lehmann, 23, didn’t want to run afoul of the rules, and there’s already plenty of nervous chatter among the Swift fan base about whether people standing up to dance will block anyone’s view.
    — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
  • De facto diaries and scrapbooks, the zines were a serious chronicle of the kind of chatter that adults still dismiss.
    — Time, 13 June 2023
  • Despite ominous online chatter leading up to the event, protests were muted.
    — Emily Cochrane, New York Times, 24 June 2023
  • The chatter sounds a lot like adolescents gossiping about who’s dating who.
    — Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2024

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