GOSSIP in a Sentence

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135 example sentences for GOSSIP, such as:

1. It's a clearing house for gossip.
2. We gossip about them and vice versa.
3. Don't believe all the gossip you hear.
4. I heard an interesting bit of gossip yesterday.
5. Scarlett suffered from this gossip in two ways.

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 Meanings and Examples of GOSSIP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
gossip
 n.  rumor; malicious report about other people; light informal conversation for social occasions
Classic Sentence: (116 in 8 pages)
1  She liked gossip better than anything else in the world, even more than she liked the pleasures of the table, and she prattled on for hours about other people's affairs in a harmless kindly way.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  In all her sheltered life she had never seen evil and could scarcely credit its existence, and when gossip whispered things about Rhett and the girl in Charleston she was shocked and unbelieving.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  But even with this under-cover gossip seeping about, he could have retained his popularity had he considered it worth retaining.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  Tom and the lazy long-legged twins with their love of gossip and their absurd practical jokes and Boyd who had the grace of a dancing master and the tongue of a wasp.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
5  Adorned in the assembled best of the family, she called on old friends, heard all the gossip of the County and felt herself again Miss O'Hara of Tara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
6  So the tumult of gossip, surmise and deep suspicion which followed the announcement of his quiet wedding to Scarlett was not surprising.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  But for a woman to leave the protection of her home and venture out into the rough world of men, competing with them in business, rubbing shoulders with them, being exposed to insult and gossip.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
8  But all the previous criticism of her conduct was as nothing compared with the buzz of gossip that now went through the town.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
9  Now there was no one, for Aunt Pitty had no conception of life beyond her small round of gossip.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
10  It's a clearing house for gossip.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
11  So engrossed had they been in their gossip that they had not heard her light tread and now, confronted by their hostess, they looked like whispering schoolgirls caught by a teacher.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
12  Scarlett suffered from this gossip in two ways.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
13  Why, we three have been--have been like soldiers fighting the world together for so many years that I'm ashamed of you for thinking idle gossip could come between us.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
14  So the gossip ran, tearing the town apart, tearing apart, too, the close-knit clan of Hamiltons, Wilkeses, Burrs, Whitemans and Winfields.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
15  When he came, we were pleasantly surprised, most pleasantly, and realized how un-Christian it is to credit idle gossip.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  The gossip about her later proved to be entirely false.
2  We gossip about them and vice versa.
3  Her appetite for gossip is absolutely indecent.
4  It was common gossip that they were having an affair.
5  It's common gossip in the office that she's about to leave her husband.
6  It's common gossip that they're having an affair.
7  Some magazines contain nothing but scandal and gossip.
8  The jet-setting couple made frequent appearances in the gossip columns.
9  Don't believe all the gossip you hear.
10  Here's an interesting piece of gossip about Mrs Smith.
11  I heard an interesting bit of gossip yesterday.
12  The magazine carries an intriguing mixture of high fashion, gossip and racing.
13  We are constantly fed gossip and speculation by the media.
14  Customers pay to log on and gossip with other users.
15  At this site you'll find all the latest news and gossip.