How to Use chit in a Sentence

chit

noun
  • That’s a lot of chit chat, but not as much as there used to be.
    — Matt Barrows, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Time to spark up some polite chit-chat with your lift mates.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Mae Martin is not into chit-chat.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2025
  • But Munir had another chit to cash in.
    — Jamie McIntyre, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • So Voncannon likes to make room for both chit-chat and serious play.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Brant is nice enough to offer his guests tea and make idle chit-chat about Rachel being a Quaker.
    — Lincee Ray, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Apr. 2026
  • After some chit-chat aboard a space station, all hell breaks loose when a bunch of mercenaries come in guns blazing.
    — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 27 Apr. 2026
  • My focus was straight ahead on the asphalt rushing under us, of course, and the engine noise and roar of the wind precluded chit-chat anyway.
    — Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Siblings, neighbors and miscellaneous chit chats are no exception!
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026
  • Belichick gave Doeren a quick midfield handshake afterward, offering no chance for chit-chat.
    — CBS News, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Another person accused YouTube and Google of the stunt, giving Swift’s team a clean chit.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The only chit the Canucks could’ve cashed that would’ve drawn a crowd, however, is 28-year-old defender Filip Hronek.
    — Thomas Drance, New York Times, 24 June 2026
  • Far from being mere idle chit-chat, small talk proves to be an invaluable ally in cultivating social health—a precious virtue in a world where hyperconnection increasingly isolates us from one another.
    — Jeanne Ballion, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Now, that sounds funny, but from the beginning of the republic to 1970, postmasterships were used as political chits, political rewards.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 1 July 2026
  • The casual-natured yet sharp staff seem genuinely happy to be working in frigid, off-grid Antarctica, and someone’s always around to fulfill a request, answer questions or engage in organic chit-chat in the main hub.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 May 2026
  • Cumming got toes tapping with a string of danceable favorites, and then NBC doubled down with the charm offensive by bringing Seth Meyers and Colin Jost for a wave and some light chit chat.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 27 June 2026
  • The American Enterprise Institute report attributed Americans’ declining propensity for neighborly chit-chat to people spending more time at home and indoors, and less time outside or in public gathering spaces.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 26 May 2026
  • The yarns of Joe Turner interweave gradually, everyday chit-chat, bargaining, and flirtation interlocking over time with threads of mysticism — both the ghosts of a brutal history and the ancestral spirits that stand protective and defiant like a phalanx of angels with shining swords.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2026

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