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‘she'd been wittering on about Jennifer and her illness’
‘When I interrupt, as I'd been told I must, more often than not he'd briefly deal with whatever I was wittering on about and then plunge straight back into his own train of thought.’
‘It witters on unconvincingly that having next of kin makes the decision less sovereign to the individual involved.’
‘Besides, they've got this universal broad appeal, whereas all I'm doing is wittering on about obscure pop music.’
‘Unfortunately, as a child, I was not given the opportunity to learn and as I have recently retired and have a little spare time on my hands, I thought it time to stop wittering on about it and bite the bullet.’
‘The Mail has been wittering about a 'lack of proof’ for months.’
‘Anyway, wittering aside, it's time to go to bed now.’
‘He witters on in a comedy falsetto about lutes, but doesn't seem to find what he's looking for up in the hills.’
‘Daughter #2 is still wittering on about a wedding but hasn't set a date.’
‘Why don't we spend hours dissecting our relationship, going into personal details and pointlessly wittering on, like I do with my girlfriends?’
‘‘I get a bit fed up of people wittering on about their children,’ he says eventually.’
‘I entered a hazy phase where I was ‘holding court’ a little using the continuous, free-association form of discourse that my wife unkindly refers to as wittering.’
‘Of course, after wittering on about how great going home via Cannon Street just after the rush hour is, what did I do tonight?’
‘Married to a woman who spends most of their long-distance calls wittering on about what colour carpet to get for his study, Bob is adrift in a sea of loneliness and isolation.’
‘Meanwhile, his friend Noel Fielding, who can get surreal without the help of wheat beer, won't stop wittering about shamans and mermen and people made of biscuits.’
‘It gets really annoying at presentation ceremonies when some old duffer keeps wittering on, doesn't it?’
‘Please don't start wittering on about how Princes Street is a World Heritage Site with 90 historic listed buildings nestling between two conservation areas.’
‘The paper asks him if he's taking hard drugs and - after wittering on for a long time - he points out that he's not taking heroin there and then.’
‘Instead of lauding the likes of Mr Van Buitenen and Ms Andresen, he attacks them; instead of rooting out fraud, he witters on about non-existent success.’
‘Nevertheless, La Girnie witters: ‘I'm amazed that there haven't been complaints from the militant feministas and their sisters that the sculpture fails to include a female.’’
‘He can, according to those who know him, witter on about pretty much anything, and at ear-numbing length.’
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