How to Use chitchat in a Sentence

chitchat

noun

• We exchanged some chitchat about the weather.
• In the car, the three chitchat about what’s growing, the job scene in the fields and, of course, the weather.
  — Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times, 16 June 2023
• Then the game began and the time for chitchat had ended.
  — Tania Ganguli, latimes.com, 9 July 2019
• Minigames break up the chitchat for some good, brisk pacing.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2018
• Given the 40 cents per-minute rate, there was no time for chitchat.
  — Tom Montgomery Fate, chicagotribune.com, 4 June 2019
• Cocktail in hand, chitchat in air, I’m rarely met with blank stare.
  — Leah Eskin, charlotteobserver, 7 Feb. 2018
• Nuggets emerge, the daily life of a production pokes through the idle chitchat.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 25 Nov. 2021
• The chitchat between the men is enough to suggest entire lives.
  — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 19 June 2017
• More from Seidel: Pregame Lions chitchat with the Fords?
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 16 Dec. 2019
• Even the banal chitchat that opens the show mesmerizes.
  — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2018
• Thank you, Slack—the best thing to happen to office chitchat since the water-cooler.
  — Joanna Stern, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2017
• Only 1,970 were made, a nod to the year of the mission (and another fun tidbit for chitchat).
  — Jessica Iredale, WSJ, 16 July 2021
• The chitchat among students abruptly ends, and someone gasps.
  — New York Times, 29 Aug. 2021
• As the guys, joined by another friend (Alex Moffat), try to chitchat, the women fear for their lives.
  — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 7 May 2017
• The members swapped memes, offensive jokes and idle chitchat.
  — Shane Harris and Samuel Oakford, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Apr. 2023
• There was some lighthearted chitchat around whether or not Greenwood would change the name.
  — Elizabeth Wellington, Philly.com, 5 July 2018
• His idea of dinnertime chitchat was to ask his daughter’s boyfriend for his thoughts on the U.S. budget deficit.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
• Green even went as far as to say that there is chitchat about another season.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Oct. 2020
• Months of isolation may have left your chitchat skills a little rusty.
  — Richard Chin, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
• The in-person meetings may not matter, but the chitchat, lunches and happy hours do.
  — Paula Marantz Cohen, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
• The chitchat that’s so often part and parcel of a B&B stay just looks a little different now.
  — Elizabeth Heath, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2020
• To his surprise, the President just wanted to chitchat.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 19 May 2017
• The office was never designed for chitchat and hanging out.
  — Kara Panzer, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2023
• And that’s a good thing, since this phone is designed for more than your average household chitchat.
  — Wired Blogs, WIRED, 31 May 2006
• The fireworks, drinking and amplified chitchat around the smoker — those were all fine.
  — Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2021
• After a few months of aimless electronic chitchat, the girls wanted to talk.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2019
• Luna would get straight to work, clearly sensing that Rodney was not one for chitchat.
  — Diana Marcum, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2021
• Once a month, the Stauffers lead a five- or six-mile ride along a bike trail, stopping halfway for lunch and chitchat before cycling home.
  — Annie Groer, Washington Post, 6 May 2017
• But even girls whose chitchat was never so principled grew up to see how girl talk had fueled them.
  — Time, 13 June 2023
• The new friends seem to hit it off talking at the bar – but Reiss’ allegedly had an ulterior motive for the chitchat.
  — Fox News, 16 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 28 May 2024