| The brass band blared from the wrought iron bandstand, families promenaded and old men gossiped in the shade of the neatly clipped box trees. |
| On the way home on the train, my brother read a racing form, my sister-in-law and I gossiped, and we were all grateful we didn't have to move. |
| We laughed and drank more wine and gossiped about old colleagues, including one women who fell in love with a Cuban while holidaying in Havana. |
| And what is more to the purpose, it spared him the pain and mortification of knowing that he was gossipped about. |
| If I succeed in my object I shall consider that I have gossipped to some purpose. |
| On the way they gossipped, and the maid expressed a belief that Mr. Lane was a fine young gentleman, but full of his goings-on. |
