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

Haden Pentecost, 41, was working on a flight from California to London when he started to become agitated and was described as "sweating" and "babbling".

From BBC • Aug. 22, 2025

Today, he can barely get out a sentence without babbling.

From Salon • Jul. 17, 2025

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

Pickett came up, good cheer in his eye, babbling that his boys had been up for hours, and what was the plan?

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara