burble
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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
First one manatee surfaces, making that now-familiar burble as it takes a deep breath.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2022
Though Sirwan means “shouting river,” its sound was reduced to an indifferent burble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2021
The sight was too terrible and beautiful for a cricket who up to now had measured high things by the height of his willow tree and sounds by the burble of a running brook.
From "The Cricket in Times Square" by George Selden
Birds sing and the Lukaya River burbles along the valley floor.
From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025
“If you want to get metaphysical about it, it’s layers of human experience that may still be reverberating,” she said, thinking about the prehistoric ooze that burbles under Wilshire Boulevard.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
One line of evidence came from isotope measurements of helium that burbles up in Tibetan springs.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 9, 2024
The creek, a tributary to the wild Chinook-bearing Chehalis River, burbles beneath the ridge.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
A glorious racket came from the branches—tweedling notes, peeps, burbles, high sharp calls.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
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 burbled beneath the surface at public events in the offseason.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2021
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
From soup to sweet Tommen burbled about the exploits of his kittens, whilst feeding them morsels of pike off his own royal plate.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
The answers, though, seem largely incidental beside the pageantry of haute cuisine and burbling table talk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
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
“There we go!” someone called out as he cleared the burbling waterway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2024
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
I ducked my head underwater and let out a long, loud scream, the sound burbling in my ears.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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