Sample Sentences for
palaver
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    Don't stand there palavering all day, but out with you and see if there's a fish on the lines for breakfast.  (source)
    palavering = talking (about nothing important)
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    Jake was not listening to the palaver very closely.†  (source)
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    I did not come here to palaver.†  (source)
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    They would suggest a game of catch in the backyard, and then rifle an uncatchable football into my small face, or they would palaver to me in baby talk about showing them my favorite toy—so that they might know what kind of thing was more appropriate to bring me, next time.†  (source)
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    "Come, come, Captain Bildad; stop palavering,—away!" and with that, Peleg hurried him over the side, and both dropt into the boat.†  (source)
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    He often asked them to hold such palavers, as he called them.†  (source)
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    Much later that night, Mebratu and Ghosh palavered over cognac and cigars.†  (source)
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    Frances pulled his hair heartily, and then went and seated herself on her husband's knee, and there they were, like two babies, kissing and talking nonsense by the hour — foolish palaver that we should be ashamed of.†  (source)
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    Makes me tired, his everlasting palavering and soft-soaping.†  (source)
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    So my 'Footnote' deals with tactical palavers of no real importance.†  (source)
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    I palavered with Bud an' I wanted to know.†  (source)
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    "And now our palaver is finished," I said.†  (source)
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    As to Christian or unchristian, I repudiate your canting palavering Christianity; and as to the way in which I spend my income, it is not my principle to maintain thieves and cheat offspring of their due inheritance in order to support religion and set myself up as a saintly Killjoy.†  (source)
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