What's the difference between gabby and talkative?

Gabby


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "In order to do something significant, we are going to have to pass laws," said Barber, a former aide to congresswoman Gabby Giffords, shot in Tucson, Arizona, in January last year.
  • (2) It was one up front again and Bent needs someone to play off, whether that's Heskey or Gabby, Ash needs to be on the wing not in a free role and Downing was on the wrong wing.
  • (3) Gabby Logan will provide news from the England camp and also report from pitch-side during matches.
  • (4) So, hopefully Gabby Torres and Brown are up for it, cause they are carrying the team tonight.
  • (5) The Leveson inquiry also heard that Michel wrote to Oliver's deputy, Gabby Bertin, on 6 July 2011 thanking her for sending messages to Rebekah Brooks.
  • (6) Here's a summary of where things stand: • Testifying this morning will be two famous figures on opposite sides of the gun debate : Captain Mark Kelly, husband of former congresswoman and gun violence victim Gabby Giffords, is to advocate for stricter gun laws, while Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association, is to make the case for more guns and fewer rules.
  • (7) Gabby Bertin, who is now David Cameron's press secretary, was paid by pharmaceutical firm Pfizer to work for Fox's controversial Atlantic Bridge charity.
  • (8) Their first-half efforts here all lacked direction, as was the case when their impish Spanish midfielder Carles Gil dragged wide just before Hull’s opening goal and when Ashley Westwood clipped a 36th-minute free-kick over the wall, or power on the only occasion they did manage an effort on target when Allan McGregor saved a tepid glancing header from Gabby Agbonlahor.
  • (9) The California attorney general and Senate candidate Kamala Harris spoke about persistence in the face of prejudice and called for victory in 2016; outgoing senator Barbara Mikulski made a joyous, ferocious call for women to organize politically; Emily’s List founder Ellen Malcolm spoke fondly of the group’s humble origins to the “18 million cracks in the ceiling” created by Clinton’s 2007 primary campaign; Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and former representative Gabby Giffords spoke proudly of the newest figures of the group; and Senator Al Franken spoke fondly of the lot and cracked jokes whenever able: “First of all, I apologize for being a guy.” Nearly all called for Clinton to run, and Mikulski, Pelosi and others declared her victory certain.
  • (10) The fact that England will not have a specialist striker due to the monumentally silly suspension incurred by Frazier Campbell doesn't augur well either, and Gabby Agbonlahor and Joe Hart's omission aren't very encouraging either.
  • (11) Alan Shearer, Phil Neville, Rio Ferdinand, Gary Lineker, Thierry Henry, Gabby Logan, Alan Hansen.
  • (12) Gabby Logan , presenter Gabby Logan and Roy Hodgson, then Fulham manager, in 2010.
  • (13) He travelled to Fort Hood, Texas soon after the 5 November 2009 tragedy in which 13 service members died at the hands of a fellow military member; he was in Tucson, Arizona days after the 8 January 2011 that left the Congress member Gabby Giffords shot in the head and six dead; and he was in Aurora, Colorado to mark the 20 July rampage in a cinema in which 12 people were killed.
  • (14) If gymnastics is not your thing, there is always Let's Play Darts, a pro-celebrity darts tournament hosted by Gabby Logan in aid of Comic Relief.
  • (15) It's been pretty intense, dramatic and very moving at moments - particularly Gabby Giffords' astonishing statement and the many references to the little kids who died in Newtown.
  • (16) The smallest of mistakes – a step backwards on her dismount – put the gold out of reach and there followed a nerve-racking wait as Tweddle watched the final two competitors – Aliya Mustafina and Gabby Douglas – to see if she would maintain a position in the top three.
  • (17) • Gabby Logan is part of the BBC's World Cup lineup.
  • (18) 3.46pm GMT Kelly says the right to bear arms is sacrosanct, but the right does not extend to criminals, terrorists and the mentally ill. "Gabby and I are pro-gun ownership.
  • (19) Sports presenter Gabby Logan has told how she was once reprimanded by a BBC boss for wearing a pair of high-heeled boots and asked to dress as if she was "doing the dishes".
  • (20) Korine is big-sisterly and diplomatic, Benson and Hudgens are goofy, gabby, earnest and lovable by turns, while Gomez, the youngest and the only non-blonde in the movie, is often the one who sensibly and self-deprecatingly re-routes a conversation going adrift, who actually answers the original question, exuding the kind pragmatism, sanity and poise you might expect from a hard-bitten 13-year veteran of the kiddie-showbiz wars.

Talkative


Definition:

  • (a.) Given to much talking.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a tent for those recovering, a talkative man wearing a heavy gold chain played up to amused doctors during the lunch break.
  • (2) When talkativeness is not resisted by the group it is tentative evidence that the talker is perceived as an appropriate, qualified, and legitimate leader.
  • (3) Mostly Nick was uncommunicative and occasionally he’d become talkative and you hung on his every word even though, very often, one didn’t know what they meant because he’d talk in riddles.
  • (4) It's the first interview he's done since his marriage and divorce and the split-up of the Ordinary Boys, and it all comes rushing out in a spate, a tangle of chronological confusions and jokes, and groans when I quote some of his old interviews back at him, and statements of contrition, and digressions about Dawkins or whatever, and here's the confounding thing - he's really nothing like I was expecting, not indie-boy sulky, or attempting to play it cool, he's just talkative and engaging, and he has a sense of humour about himself that, from reading his previous interviews, I wouldn't have even guessed at.
  • (5) Findings were that hyperactive children were more spontaneously talkative than their classmates during transitions and nonverbal tasks (nonelicited conditions) but were less talkative when they were asked to tell stories (elicited conditions).
  • (6) Role-playing by selected drama students and community theatre actors involves common problems encountered in the optometrist's office and management of problem patients (angry, aggressive, shy, withdrawn, talkative, flirt, hypocondriac, etc.
  • (7) The mental state was characterized by an expressed mental retardation with some special traits: relatively well developed speech, talkativeness, good-naturedness, an euphoric mood, inactivity and poor motor functioning.
  • (8) Lorna Wing, author of the first classic papers on full-spectrum autism, was herself the mother of an autistic daughter, Susie: “Parents … tend to overlook or reject the idea of autism for their socially gauche, naive, talkative, clumsy child,” she wrote.
  • (9) What was astonishing about Day-Lewis's Bafta acceptance speech was how calm and talkative he seemed.
  • (10) But a minor Waitrose-related spat broke out in Westminster on Thursday, with David Cameron accused of elitism as he expressed the personal view that its shoppers tended to be more talkative and "engaged" than customers of other supermarkets.
  • (11) Mosshart is far more sunny and talkative than her onstage image as the love child of Patti Smith and Johnny Thunders suggests.
  • (12) Multiple measures of family adaptability, cohesion, and talkativeness were administered to two family members (insiders) and two significant others (outsiders).
  • (13) Visual analogue scales showed subjective drug effects: pentazocine made the volunteers talkative, contented, interested and energetic, whilst codeine rendered them mentally slow.
  • (14) We assess the hierarchical relations between traits differing in breadth, using a task in which subjects select the most meaningful of two statements, such as "To be talkative is a way of being extroverted" versus "To be extroverted is a way of being talkative."
  • (15) Two longitudinal studies of 2-year-old children who were extreme in the display of either behavioral restraint or spontaneity in unfamiliar contexts revealed that by 7 years of age a majority of the restrained group were quiet and socially avoidant with unfamiliar children and adults whereas a majority of the more spontaneous children were talkative and interactive.
  • (16) Although Crace describes himself as a "landscape writer", he has always dismissed the British landscape as being "too spoken for, too talkative, too small".
  • (17) Two groups of Type A individuals were found--one that was repressed, tense, and illness-prone, but another that was healthy, talkative, in control, and charismatic.
  • (18) I love its friendly, multiracial, talkative people.
  • (19) Telephone companies sent out warning letters to customers they thought were too talkative.
  • (20) It may look a silly, over-talkative film now – and there are Taylor pictures where the sheer visual glory has dated comically – until you let the story melt away and just gaze at her: in Ivanhoe, say, or Beau Brummell, or The Sandpiper or The Last Time I Saw Paris.