The people gossiping and the person being gossiped about know each other in real life.

He thought his life was finished because wherever he went, people gossiped about him.

The people of the neighborhood, dazed at first, had gossiped about it in the street, from one threshold to another.

Even so far north, people gossiped about his notoriety as a gambler, a rake, a daredevil.

She wondered how many people sitting on benches and low marble walls around fountains were gossiping about her.

Then she asked me: with such nasty women there and people gossiping about me, why did I want to come back?

A few bad people gossiped, but that was all.

Although people gossiped, and he had few friends, everyone respected him.

Onegin is annoyed that people are gossiping about him and Tatyana.

Occasionally, she noticed someone looking their way, but it never crossed her mind that people might be gossiping about them.