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Example sentences for: blather
How can you use “blather” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Contrast this with the pundits, who set new records yesterday for quantity and speedy delivery of blather.
He does have some Clinton-like traits, such as his obsession with his mother, his smarminess, and his flattering blather.
But more likely is that this is anti-Clinton blather from a conservative Republican.
The class of onomatopoeic and reduplicative terms for spoken language is large : blather, buzz-buzz, chitchat, fiddle-faddle, jibber-jabber, yakety-yak, yuk-yuk . The earliest appearances of something resembling yadda yadda yadda in print derive from its use in sound-symbolic fashion, as in this exchange from a short story (about anthropomorphic ducks) appearing in a 1949 issue of the Saturday Evening Post :
What impresses me, in fact, is that with all the blather about "the new," there is a hunger for history, and for many people, the old is more relevant than the new.
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