Example sentences for: palaver

How can you use “palaver” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Given the nature of the publishing business today, it is probably not at all surprising to see another usage book (bearing in mind that the Fowler is being updated by Robert Burchfield), though, if you believe all the foregoing palaver, no one will ever refer to it.

  • Again, we have some silly palaver assuring us that Levinthal is aware that these items depict stereotyped images of blacks--as though we suspected that he endorsed them, or thought they were realistic.

  • Today's palaver palette offers Frank Rich excoriating Beltway pundits, Gene McCarthy arguing that special prosecutors are inherently anti-democratic, Maureen Dowd mitigating the presidential prurience with a sexual ineptness defense and an Alabama reporter's discussing what a nice scandal break folks down his way got by being clobbered by Hurricane Georges.

  • The portal sites are trying to grab a share of the campaign palaver, too.

  • While there was plenty of time on the weekend shows to palaver about Hillary Clinton's emerging child-care initiative (and her 50 th birthday), the Asian stock-market crash, and the reform of the IRS, the shows were silent about the Million Woman March.


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