How to Use blather in a Sentence

blather

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  • Smith’s shoot-from-the-lip comment, taken in the context of TV blather, was no big deal.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 19 Aug. 2020
  • No good comes out of it … having to hear all the blather and having to hear all the nonsense and the negativity and the falsities.
    — Kristine Phillips, Washington Post, 14 May 2017
  • This ought not be dismissed as idle blather: Mr. Putin has sent aircraft close to the Swedish border to run practice strikes on Stockholm.
    — Azita Raji, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2017
  • The last thing most CEOs want to do in the heat of some highly charged, emotional debate is blather on about the realities of commerce.
    — Sam Walker, WSJ, 27 July 2018
  • And Tillerson made no attempt to play along with some blather about a mutual agreement.
    — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2018
  • On the other hand, though: The big national news media, a purveyor of blather and bile in the best of times, have spent the last month wearing a caul of rotten blubber.
    — James Lileks, National Review, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Comedy people can’t go on talk shows and blather like actors.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Kunzru takes us to 2016, of course: The only possible conclusion to this fable about the emptiness of right-wing blather is the election of Donald Trump.
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 9 Sep. 2020
  • On the economy, however, Europe needs a lot more than blather.
    — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Sports is taking some time off, but the bullcorn and blather will continue unabated.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 14 Mar. 2020
  • Here’s the time-filling round-up of trivia and blather that precedes the much more hard-hitting (yes, that’s a joke) actual red carpet coverage.
    — oregonlive, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The key point to keep in mind about WeWork, when the baroque deal-making and new age blather is backed out, is that its business model seems almost to be begging to blow itself into smithereens.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2019
  • His tone and cadence take after the saccharine blather of the great Christian pitchmen of radio and TV, the hucksters who mastered the catch in the throat, the tremulous quaver and gulp, because as every pro knows that’s where the money is.
    — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2018
  • Given all the commercials, referee timeout checks and half-time blather, both genders really need a two-hour time limit for a 40-minute game.
    — Bob Hill, The Courier-Journal, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Is Basically a 9-to-5 While Beatty blathers about getting the wrong envelope, the shocked rightful winners fill in behind him.
    — GQ, 9 Dec. 2017
  • Hear this week’s episode, plus all 12 entertaining interviews from last year (including me in full blather), at bit.ly/invite-podcast, or on most podcast platforms.
    — Washington Post, 8 July 2021
  • Conversation spills out in snippets of wisdom or blather.
    — Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Item: Being hushed by a fellow library patron while Steve continues to blather on, ad nauseam.
    — Brooke Knisley, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2020
  • This mindfulness also offers an opportunity to leave your screens behind and remove yourself, if only for a while, from the blather, furor and demands of a 24/7 world.
    — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Last week’s episode saw still more of the seemingly endless resentment Diana feels toward Sutton, along with some blather about who blocked who on social media and on, and on, and for heaven’s sake, grow up, already.
    — oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2022
  • These quiet, toothy marsupials don’t create trash or stab one another or blather on about Game of Thrones or slip paper bags full of cash under tables to pay off blackmail.
    — Jason Nark, Philly.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • This has become more pronounced since the departure of Shepard Smith, whose 3:00 p.m. show was an island of hard news and high journalistic standards in the Fox wasteland of right-wing misinformation and blather.
    — Bruce Bartlett, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2020
  • In the film’s strongest sequence, and its most feverishly comic, Rosefeldt turns cable-TV blather into manifesto.
    — Sheri Linden, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
  • Now, no amount of blather from Republicans about high-risk pools picking up the slack will whitewash the fact that discrimination on the basis of disease is unethical and frankly un-American.
    — Danielle Ofri, Slate Magazine, 25 May 2017
  • Based on five episodes made available for preview, things remain uneven -- the first episode is dragged down by more conspiracy blather, interminable voiceover and way too many apocalyptic predictions of doom.
    — Kristi Turnquist, OregonLive.com, 31 Dec. 2017
  • The president* blithers and blathers and congratulates himself, all the while lying and being really ignorant.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 20 Dec. 2017
  • There was also a lot of blather about that season's philosophical earworms, from cancel culture to gender essentialism.
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 31 Mar. 2022
  • No more blather about entering tournaments expecting only to win.
    — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2018
  • The pandemic has relegated the Biden campaign to incoherent blather broadcast from the candidate’s basement.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 8 Apr. 2020
  • They are left to navigate the whims and interests of self-righteous entities, skeptical about which sides really care about them, knowing that, whatever decision is made, their right to earn will buried beneath a bunch of sanctimonious blather.
    — Jerry Brewer, chicagotribune.com, 8 June 2017

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