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How to use talkative in a sentence

15 example sentences · adjective

Talkative means tending to talk a lot. Example: “He's a talkative drunk; three beers in and he's chattering away about everything.”

Examples of talkative by meaning

adjectiveTending to talk a lot.

  • a talkative girl
  • a talkative TV show

More sentences with talkative

  • He's a talkative drunk; three beers in and he's chattering away about everything.From the entry drunk
  • No sooner had he arrived than the others grew talkative.From the entry no sooner than
  • Patry, 62, who is possibly the most optimistic and talkative native Mainer in history.2012 September 11, Julia Moskin, “Buttermilk, Often Maligned, Begins to Get Its Due”, NYTimes.com. From the entry mainer
  • They're confident, calm, at ease, talkative, cheerful, and above all, socially very "ept."1991, Anne Geller, M. J. Territo, Restore your life: a living plan for sober people, page 133. From the entry ept
  • His characters tend to be either laconic or torrentially talkative.2007 April 29, Tibor Fischer, “Hungarian Graffiti”, in New York Times. From the entry torrentially
  • “This Birbal is a talkative halfwit,” he thought.2001, James Moseley, “Birbal and the Seller of Oil”, in The Ninth Jewel of the Mughal Crown: The Birbal Tales from the Oral Traditions of…. From the entry flour-monger
  • It was healthy and magnificient because one room, above a mews, somewhere near the river, contained fifty excited, talkative, friendly people.1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished…. From the entry mews
  • Macdonald's wife was an immensely stout, raven-haired, sloe-eyed, talkative body, the most motherly woman I have ever known.1903, Joseph Conrad, F. M. Hueffer, Romance. From the entry sloe-eyed
  • It's a magical place filled with luscious tropical greens, colorific rare flowers, and talkative birds with personalities—all underneath a futuristic dome sky.2015 December 23, Debra Zhou, “Enchanted Nights at Bloedel Conservatory”, in Georgia Straight. From the entry colorific
  • Nor is any man so talkative.2010, J. Thomas Rimer, Van C. Gessel, The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature. From the entry lecturesome
  • Aren’t they supposed to be bespectacled women with a love of classic books and a perpetual annoyance with talkative patrons — the ultimate humorless shushers?2007 July 8, Kara Jesella, “A Hipper Crowd of Shushers”, in New York Times. From the entry shusher
  • That's because autistic people often don't have a strong social drive, while ADHDers may be more talkative and outgoing (though this is not always the case).2023 April 25, Laura Newberry, “Autism and ADHD often go hand-in-hand. What's it like to have 'AuDHD'?”, in Los Angeles Times, Los…. From the entry ADHDer
  • Byrne,” I said, “don’t you feel your dictionary might just metagrobolise (mystify) the average man and, worse, turn the harageous rodomontades (bold braggarts) among us into linguacious lexiphanics (talkative snobs)?”1979 November 22, Stephen Downes, “Secrets of a chronic logolept”, in The Age, 126th year, Melbourne, Vic., →OCLC, page 11, column 4. From the entry lexiphanic

Meaning of talkative

  1. adjective Tending to talk a lot.
  2. adjective Speaking openly and honestly, neglecting privacy and consequences.

Full definition of talkative

Questions about talkative in a sentence

How do you use talkative in a sentence?
Talkative is used as an adjective. For example: “He's a talkative drunk; three beers in and he's chattering away about everything.”
What is a short sentence with talkative?
“a talkative girl”
What does talkative mean?
Talkative means tending to talk a lot.

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