Looking for sentences and phrases with the word prate? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
For know that I am proud and revengeful and lascivious, and I prate even as thou.
It's even worse for them to prate about privacy when it's clearly just a PR move.
Golden Age-of-TV evangelists prate on about which glorified soap operas are most deserving of our rapt attention.
Examples from Classical Literature
It would be better to prate of Eric's love when he had told it thee, Swanhild.
Most prison reformers, as I say, prate of the injury done to the soul of the prisoner.
And Merula presumptuously and provokingly continuing to prate, he disputed no further, but assented with evasive politeness.
That's more important than this doggoned experience you and Skinner prate so much about.
Is it not late in the day, Hogan, for you and me to prate of honour?
Will you hold your prate, or do you want me to kick you downstairs?
Tis but conceit, and nothing more, to prate of satisfaction!
For the chimney-sweep to prate of cleanliness would not be more anomalous.
And prate of spelling and reading as if they were the cardinal virtues?
Your people prate of the just laws of Manator, and yet you would slay three strangers without telling them of what crime they are accused.
I know the age better than you do, though you will prate about it so tediously.
The very stones prate of Neptune's whereabouts in days of langsyne.
Without this, it is idle to prate about the wastefulness of slaves.
So he began to prate to Miss Marian of clubs, of teas, of golf and riding and kennels and cotillions and tours abroad and threw out hints of a yacht lying at Larchmont.
And then he strewed the table with the nuggets, stuffed ptarmigans, bead work and seal pelts of the returned Kiondiker, and began to prate to us of his millions.
Prate as we may of democracy, we must admit, if we are to be honest with ourselves, that this sad old world is a snobocracy.
