Voorbeelden van prate

• Who prates of stream and sea?

• I say what is the use of our prating about our good intentions and waiting for somebody else to do the good actions?

• Should she not have supported that proposal if she wanted to defend the freedom that she prates so much about?

• Yet the curious thing is that we prate more than almost anyone else about the virtues of consultation.

• We know that well, so they might as well stop prating about it from now on.

• There is no point prating about human rights unless we are serious about the rule of law, because that is what protects those rights.

• To go on prating about something which we might have wished but which is no longer possible, is to adopt an altogether wrong attitude.

• That is not the basis of democracy about which she prates so much.

• Let us deal with the perishing procrastination of those who particularly prate about principle—by which they mean precept without any possible foreseeable performance.

• I would say "praying mantis", but when she prates the rest of us have to pray.

• We often prate about the demarcation lines in the filthy trades, but ignore them in the noble professions.

• I do not want to prate on this particular line.

• I do not want the prating reply that nationalised industries conduct their own day-to-day affairs.

• It is easy to prate about principles and to forget about people.

• Having advocated it for their special anti-gambling purposes they will not hesitate to go about the country and prate liberty on the largest scale.