Ways of speaking

I can't listen to his constant ... .

• wheedling

• babbling

• coaxing

She was very nervous and started to ... .

• gabble

• rant

• whine

Police managed to ... the man to come down from the ledge.

• mutter

• murmur

• coax

I couldn't understand what he was ... about.

• ranting

• mumbling

• whining

‘How dare she,’ he ... angrily under his breath.

• whinged

• rabbited

• muttered

‘Night, night,’ she ... sleepily.

• murmured

• whined

• wheedled

What are you ... on about? No one cares.

• murmuring

• rabbiting

• whining

She was ... on about the unfairness of it all and how the whole world is against her.

• murmuring

• mumbling

• ranting

The kids can always ... money out of their father.

• gabble

• babble

• wheedle

‘I want to go home,’ ... Toby.

• ranted

• whined

• wheedled