babbling

Example Sentences

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The phrase echoed the one I had spoken years earlier to a babbling toddler in a Baltimore church.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026

Briany was sitting on Raysa’s lap as they watched TV in the living room, babbling along as she listened to the couple talk, when Israel’s phone rang.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 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

We’d seen him babbling and walking cockeyed down the road, leaning over so far you keep thinking he’ll plumb fall over.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver