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
“I thought someone else would answer the call,” Ms. Prohaska, 51, said in an interview in her house on City Island in the Bronx, over the burble of hundreds of gallons of aquarium water.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2023
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
A Bunsen burner’s hissing blue flame was making a round-bottomed bottle full of purple goop burble and bubble.
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
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
I’ve previously argued that it’s best to know what people are thinking by allowing them to vent publicly than to wonder what burbles and festers beneath the foundations of our weakened institutions.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2022
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
The cauldron of negativity has burbled since Dorian made his college debut more than three years ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 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
A yellow brook burbled through a mountain pass.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Ditto a reversal by NASA, whose then-leader enjoyed burbling in public about aliens but was soon assembling an expert panel to debunk such careless if crowd-pleasing talk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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
His 2020 debut, “Desire,” was a solo album of pulsing, burbling synths and beats.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2023
The trail took us past glades of juniper and dwarf birch, blue pine and rhododendron, thundering waterfalls, enchanting boulder gardens, burbling streams.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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