1.   They sat chatting idly.

2.   We sat chatting at the fireside.

3.   At a recent meeting, six lesbians and four gay men sat chatting around a conference table while their children played together in another room.

4.   As we sat chatting about his work, neither of us said anything about the underlying significance of a couple of plane trips.

5.   The few women sit together chatting, fully clothed.

6.   Asked recently if they would vote for Yeltsin again, several residents who sat chatting on benches in the shade responded with smirks and silence.

7.   Asked recently if they would vote for Yeltsin again, several of his contemporaries who sat chatting on benches in the shade responded with smirks and silence.

8.   Men sit chatting under palm trees, rubbing prayer beads between their fingers.

9.   On one road that resembled a river, two U.S. soldiers in raincoats sat chatting on the roof of their submerged Humvee, waiting for help.

10.   Women sit chatting on small stools along the red-brick sidewalks, watching their daughters jump-rope before them.