How to Use chatty in a Sentence

chatty

adjective
  • The chatty neighbors tell him a woman across the street is 107.
    Bruce Selcraig, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Apr. 2021
  • Or be the chatty co-worker and (briefly) distract a friend.
    Shani Harmon, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The once ever-chatty doyenne would remain silent up to 22 hours a day.
    Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 June 2021
  • The chatty grandfather gave the doctors and nurse a huge wave.
    Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Ogawa’s mode for The Nosebleed is at first almost chatty.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2021
  • But although the flora was silent, the fauna was chatty.
    Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
  • And if the choices are a chatty seatmate or one with bad body odor, 74% are going to take the talker.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The young men, mostly dressed in black civilian clothes, are relaxed and chatty.
    Sam Kiley, CNN, 28 Oct. 2022
  • For instance, in the first piece, the chatty and long-married Karen notices that the Savoy-Plaza that was once across the street has been demolished.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Over lunch, sitting next to Bill, Jenny was sunny and bright and chatty at first.
    Robert Kolker, New York Times, 20 July 2023
  • There was about a day and a half of work with Jackson in the riggings where the actor was a true pro, but not exactly chatty.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 14 May 2021
  • Booth, a charming and chatty Brit who lives near the base of Mont Blanc, has ridden the Colombiere more than 50 times and wasn’t even breathing hard.
    Steve Wartenberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2022
  • The pristine golden collectible even lights up just like the film’s chatty robot.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Having fun and being a little more chatty can be the keys to your success today.
    Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 5 Aug. 2021
  • There were plenty of highlights along the way; folks in line were relaxed, chatty, and sharing both stories and food.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2023
  • There is a formal obliqueness to rainy days that is at odds with the chatty ethos of Hollywood love stories.
    Hazlitt, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Maybe a wrong-number message on WhatsApp from a chatty stranger.
    Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 13 July 2022
  • Some were very chatty, while others made only a few peeps every ten hours.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Marni LaFleur will live among chatty lemurs in the merciless heat of Madagascar.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Brownstein writes in a chatty tone perfect for younger readers who think of 1974 as the prehistoric age.
    Neal Justin, Star Tribune, 6 June 2021
  • Lori worried the feds were closing in — as close as the chatty woman sitting next to her and Larry on an airplane.
    Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2022
  • Or, even worse, that chatty smuggler Yuri (Nikola Djuricko).
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 14 June 2022
  • My favorite was a dance battle in the cemetery featuring a chatty high-school gal.
    Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Oct. 2021
  • His letters could be chatty about fly-fishing, but were circumspect to the point of muteness on questions of love and art.
    Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The Moon in your chatty 3rd house is lighting up the Sun in your connected 11th house, giving you the energy to get in touch with people near and far.
    Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The sibling duo is an odd one: Janet is bubbly and chatty, friendly with everyone.
    Sarah Schutte, National Review, 21 Jan. 2024
  • It’s seen in the spirited song and dance sequences that leap from the doors of a chatty hair salon and spill out into a July-hot alleyway and off the screen.
    Washington Post, 4 June 2021
  • The end result is a chatty bot that enables the give-and-take interaction portrayed in that Apple video.
    Steven Levy, WIRED, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The song has little in the way of a hook, and the verses pour out in a chatty, unmetrical stream, a flow that owes as much to YouTube instructional videos as to rap itself.
    New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Though not a member of the team — but around often enough to make a claim — Doncic, smiling and chatty, took the trophy from his dad and paraded it in front of the fans himself.
    Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2022

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