How to Use gossipy in a Sentence

gossipy

adjective
  • The blinds, as a result, are wild and gossipy and fun to read.
    — Allie Jones, The Cut, 14 Dec. 2017
  • And yes, the gossipy details of who, what, when, and where are once again right there.
    — Vulture, 30 June 2023
  • So sing your heart out, tell all your deepest, gossipy secrets on the phone, or just take a nap and snore away.
    — Ann Lien, House Beautiful, 23 May 2019
  • The title suggests a gossipy tell-all, and there’s a heaping dollop of that.
    — Kathy Kiely, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Singsanong was the protective, gossipy one who kept everyone in line.
    — Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2023
  • After all, workplaces can sometimes feel cloistered and gossipy and dull.
    — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 12 May 2021
  • But the debates over the more gossipy anecdotes obscure the larger trends that surface through the book.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2025
  • There are shelves of gossipy books by aides; Mount’s wry retelling of his stint in the inner sanctum is my favorite.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2024
  • This includes a lawyer, who will reply to social messages and even gossipy chitchat from their work account.
    — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2025
  • On a bad day, this transit can become a bit gossipy, which is never a cute look, Virgo babe.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Some are gossipy tell-all trash; some are dry, academic histories of the medium.
    — Scott Phillips, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
  • But in a pandemic, there are none of the usual gossipy gatherings.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Wendy Williams, the gossipy and fabulous queen of daytime drama.
    — Alex Frank, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2018
  • Yet the film also wants to cue us to the gossipy and reductive way that this kind of thinking has too often been applied to her.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 July 2024
  • And offices are gossipy places, so telling your less-anxious reports will almost always get back to the more-anxious ones.
    — Megan Greenwell, Wired, 14 Apr. 2021
  • On the margins of the story, there is a group of gossipy women who gather to knit and act as a comedic Greek chorus.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Apple’s cloud copies of many things on your phone, including your photos and your gossipy iMessage group chats.
    — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
  • But gossipy allure aside, a lot of the drama itself is underwhelming.
    — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Sometimes the engineers sever the sound from the live room so the musicians can’t hear their gossipy banter.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Sun was glinting off the creek, a gossipy circle of wild turkeys faced us on the other side, and Somers was in a pensive mood.
    — Washington Post, 2 May 2022
  • On the contrary, the details of the crime and its coverup are even more damning than the incident’s gossipy aspects would suggest.
    — Alan Zilberman, idahostatesman, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Potential changes were always a gossipy topic in business and finance.
    — Alex Mayyasi, NPR, 23 Sep. 2025
  • In many ways, Chopra’s memoir is a standard account of working in the film industry, at turns grim and gossipy.
    — Annie Berke, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2022
  • This Penelope is knowing, gossipy, disabused.
    — David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
  • The men specialized in scandalous and gossipy books about the Chinese leadership which are banned on the mainland.
    — James Griffiths, CNN, 24 Oct. 2017
  • This has created an ecosystem that can be harsh, gossipy, and bigoted like the 2000s tabloids were.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 25 May 2021
  • Rumors and gossipy trade reports had hinted at all kinds of chaos, from the ankling of department heads to unorthodox behavior on set.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Comics are comics — a bunch of gossipy high-school girls — but at that time, our hand, as a community in a lot of ways, was forced to take a stand politically.
    — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Not that Pike’s Elspeth, a blithe and gossipy ex-model (and a contender for funniest zingers of the year), would say so to her face.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The gossipy tendencies of the Vatican tend to disappear the closer somebody gets to the pope.
    — Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2019

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