Wondering how to use Tattle in a sentence? Below are 6 example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as blab or talk.
Tattle meaning
- To chatter; to gossip.
- Often said of children: to report incriminating information about another person, or a person's wrongdoing in an annoying fashion, usually to a person in a position of authority over the accused person; to tell on somebody.
- To speak like a baby or young child; to babble, to prattle; to speak haltingly; to stutter.
Synonyms of Tattle
Using Tattle
- The main meaning on this page is: To chatter; to gossip. | Often said of children: to report incriminating information about another person, or a person's wrongdoing in an annoying fashion, usually to a person in a position of authority over the accused person; to tell on somebody. | To speak like a baby or young child; to babble, to prattle; to speak haltingly; to stutter.
- Useful related words include: blab, talk, clack, twaddle.
Context around Tattle
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tattle
- In this selection, "tattle" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, tittle stand out and add context to how "tattle" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a tittle tattle on the and clever tittle tattle and orang. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tattle" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tattle
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I never really read the internet, so, I don't really care," said Zac, shrugging off the tittle-tattle. (19 words)
Chat on the sofa, natter in a pub…over to Jeremy Corbyn for a tittle-tattle on the allotment? (19 words)
Back in the day, everyone said the whole cast hated each other, which at the time she put down to sexist tittle-tattle. (23 words)
Other compounds Connecting hyphens are used in a large number of miscellaneous compounds, other than modifiers, such as in lily-of-the-valley, cock-a-hoop, clever-clever, tittle-tattle and orang-utan. (33 words)
The NBA has a snitch line for players to tattle on each other when one doesn’t wear a face mask, as the NBA requires. (25 words)
It continues to be narrated by the mysterious Lady Whistledown, who writes newsletters full of tittle-tattle about the dating exploits of high society. (24 words)
Chat on the sofa, natter in a pub…over to Jeremy Corbyn for a tittle-tattle on the allotment? (19 words)
Example sentences (6)
Back in the day, everyone said the whole cast hated each other, which at the time she put down to sexist tittle-tattle.
I never really read the internet, so, I don't really care," said Zac, shrugging off the tittle-tattle.
It continues to be narrated by the mysterious Lady Whistledown, who writes newsletters full of tittle-tattle about the dating exploits of high society.
The NBA has a snitch line for players to tattle on each other when one doesn’t wear a face mask, as the NBA requires.
Chat on the sofa, natter in a pub…over to Jeremy Corbyn for a tittle-tattle on the allotment?
Other compounds Connecting hyphens are used in a large number of miscellaneous compounds, other than modifiers, such as in lily-of-the-valley, cock-a-hoop, clever-clever, tittle-tattle and orang-utan.