babble

Instead he softened the blow with corporate babble: “You were building the plane while you flew it.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

So coach Andy Reid can babble “Bundle-Rooski” on inane commercials for another season?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2025

Above us swallows dart through the air, Graeme takes a picture of a damsel fly and the brook to our side continues to babble.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2024

It frustrates smart readers because invariably the answer is "yes" yet the rationale is typically incoherent babble.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2024

Now, merely to avert any ill-luck, I babble mechanically: “I will fulfil everything, fulfil everything I have promised you—” but already I know that I shall not do so.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

But inside, alongside the sounds of teens going to class are the cries and babbles of babies.

From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2022

A pond babbles outside the window, and a garden of succulents climbs up to claim the wooden exterior walls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2022

I listened to their babbles and tried to echo the sounds I heard.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2022

He seethes, raves, mumbles and babbles, summoning thunderstorms of eloquence from intimate whispers.

From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2021

But Mags tugs on my sleeve and babbles on until I’ve given the awl to her.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

I spent days pressing a light-up toy when we said his name to draw his attention and babbled incessantly in his face so he could copy my lip patterns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

Lutnick showed up on CBS' "Face the Nation" and babbled so incoherently about robots and manufacturing and "tiny screws" that you had to wonder if someone put something in his morning coffee.

From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2025

German reports said Arthur E was a diamond trader who had "babbled like a brook" after his arrest.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2023

Keona babbled wistfully to nobody in particular about Lahaina and things broken in the fire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2023

They babbled and gestured toward her basket, their movements disjointed, their tones raised, and Olanna made out some of the words.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

In a documentary last year, he recounted a middle-aged deliveryman who was reduced to a babbling fanboy when he spied the movie poster on Conner’s wall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

"America is a big place with 350 plus million people all babbling over their identity and their agency and those struggles create interesting patterns," he says.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026

That is not to say it would have been particularly shrewd for the president to have wandered into the Rose Garden and started babbling about what a “very fine person” Luigi Mangione is.

From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2025

The question left Pearce reeling, babbling out a reply that his laptop had automatically switched in an incorrect address on documents he’d uploaded.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025

Sort of like the way she was babbling right now about awesome and daunting.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake