Strength in Europe: Market strategists were chattering non-stop in January about Europe's economic weakness and deflation concerns.
Though it is gaining traction, this antigossip push can sound quaint, especially in a nation that nonchalantly lost millions of hours in productivity last month chattering about Tiger Woods.
After school the children left in little groups, chattering about the great day yet to come when long-hoped-for two-wheelers and bright sleds would appear beside their trees at home.
All at once, the three children's faces lit up, and they began to bounce around in the back seat, laughing and chattering.
Occasionally he'd approach, lips taut, exposing a nervous smile full of chattering teeth.
After school the children left in little groups, chattering about the great day yet to come when long-hoped-for two-wheelers and bright sleds would appear beside their trees at home.
Chattering meanwhile in a language we could not understand, and clutching at ropes and gangways, they swarmed up the ship's side with such speed and agility that they almost seemed to fly.
He went and listened, and then noticed that it was the sparrows who were chattering together, and telling one another of all kinds of things which they had seen in the fields and woods.
He leaned against the stone framework of the window, and gazed down into the deep, blue water, and over to the little island with the three acacias, and wished himself there, away and free from the whole chattering party.
But I do not understand chattering and boasting; on the contrary, I despise it.
None noticed Helga but a flock of magpies, which flew chattering round the top of the tree on which she sat.
On the car of Thespis he sat in the guise of a chattering raven, and flapped his black wings, smeared with the lees of wine; over the sounding harp of Iceland swept the swan's red beak; on Shakspeare's shoulder he sat in the guise of Odin's raven, and whispered in the poet's ear "Immortality!
" Early in the morning, sparrows were sitting down in front of the hen house and chattering.
