Although we were supposed to have a lecture, the teacher spent the entire period with palaver about his vacation.

I was late for work after my chatty grandmother held me up with palaver about past economic times.

While I would normally listen to my students’ palaver about their weekend plans, I could not spare the time since we had a huge test next week.

The man became impatient in line as he listened to the woman’s palaver with the cashier.

If the board members had not engaged in so much palaver during the meeting, we might have gotten at least one resolution passed.

Men complain about women talking all the time, but they are also guilty of wasting time with palaver.

After the businessmen closed the big deal, they went to a bar and engaged in palaver about their golf games.

When the students meet during period changes, there is much palaver as the young people try to avoid going to class.

The exhausted father became disturbed by the sound of the children’s nonstop palaver from the backseat of the car.

While we waited for the plane to depart, the flight attendant tried to engage us in palaver so we would forget about the delay.