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Even when he was trying to sound upbeat, the river of resentment would burble up in his mannerisms and his peevish voice.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2024

Much of the stream called Little Brook flows below the pavement in Seattle’s Lake City neighborhood, emerging for just a moment to burble through a small park shadowed by apartment buildings.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2022

It’s an upbeat soul-gospel shuffle, filled with little flashes of exuberance from a frisky studio band: a quick bass run, an organ burble, a slide-guitar swoop, a ripple of honky-tonk piano.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2021

This was supposed to be a getaway with nothing to distract us but the burble of the water, the wind in the trees, a stack of novels and a 1,000-piece puzzle.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2019

The girls listened, but in the constant burble of jungle noises, it was hard to hear anything unusual.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

Birds sing and the Lukaya River burbles along the valley floor.

From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025

One line of evidence came from isotope measurements of helium that burbles up in Tibetan springs.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 9, 2024

This is a two-tiered falls, widening as it descends: The water takes a long plunge, crashes into a pool, then burbles back up and falls again.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2023

Quirinal: The ever boisterous Trevi Fountain burbles at foot of the Quirinal.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 11, 2019

I don’t know if anything I said made sense, but somewhere between the gray sidewalk and the gray sky, a laugh burbles out of me.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden

A stone fountain burbled softly in his Japanese-inspired peace garden.

From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026

Alabama and Texas A&M illustrated one of the byproducts that have burbled up out of college football’s ever-shifting ecosystem.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2022

It's like the ugly reality that was being daintily concealed in the '80s has burbled up and consumed us all.

From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2019

It was late summer at JourneyPure; the horses were grazing behind the barn, and a river burbled behind the cluster of cottages where patients live.

From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2018

All the nervousness she'd been feeling about skipping to fourth grade suddenly burbled up inside her.

From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies

The answers, though, seem largely incidental beside the pageantry of haute cuisine and burbling table talk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Miller, the Mono Lake Committee’s Eastern Sierra policy director, and Geoff McQuilkin, its executive director, led the way to a burbling spring rimmed by innumerable hoof prints.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025

Meghan is a wealthy American woman living a royal dream, if you ignore the geyser of British tabloid bile constantly burbling in the background of her life.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2025

Traditionally a celebration dish in Korea, this kalbijjim feels like a labor of love burbling on your table; it’s so good that I can see why my Korean friends say soup season is year-round.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2024

She dropped it into the purifier, which made burbling noises as it came to a boil.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld