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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

Behind the glass fronts are shelves of Mason jars in which Mr. De Smedt’s starters burble away.

From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2020

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

Jake heard a very loud burble, like bubbles in a bathtub.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

Large producers typically seek to capture and sell incidental natural gas that burbles up, and they have a strong financial incentive to do so.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

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 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

After Justice Arthur Engoron handed down that hefty penalty in the fraud case, Eric Trump burbled some nonsense about how his dad had created the skyline of the city.

From Salon ● Feb. 29, 2024

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

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

From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies

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

These water gardens were lovely and relatively simple, but I still wanted the soothing sound of burbling water.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2024

Along the way, I spotted flashy displays of yellow balsamroot and purple lupine as my family meandered alongside burbling Cowiche Creek.

From Seattle Times ● May 18, 2024

She was burbling with excitement as if they were the kind of people who regularly discussed Guinness world records.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman