gabble

And Lucky’s monologue—veering inanely through realms including religion, academics and sports—is delivered by Mr. Thornton not, as it usually is, as a galloping pile of gabble, but with a musing seriousness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2025

At 41, he is disarmingly boyish, with a cherub’s fleshy face and a tendency to gabble enthusiastically when a subject excites him.

From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2016

The machines wink, dials twitch, numbers gabble across screens.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2012

Priestley incubated his hunches in the cosmopolitan gabble of 18th century London coffee shops.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2010

Their profound silence became broken by a conversational gabble.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Mr. Bernthal, an Emmy winner for “The Bear,” imbues Sonny with a pinballing energy as he gabbles orders at the hostages and begins flailing negotiations with the cops massing outside.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

He plays tenor saxophone in cries and gabbles and interval jumps and long tones; his music usually describes motion and spirit rather than corresponding to preset tonal centers, rhythms, and melodies.

From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2014

King Kong has so much to say, often in interesting ways, that it gabbles and fluffs its lines.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2013

He approves of wordlessness – the less you talk, the longer you live, one fisherman tells him – but gabbles away like mad in his diary.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2013

And some thinks mebby some one has cut it down and took it away, and all gabbles to oncet.

From Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis

Advance word on “Hereditary” told, or gabbled, of something more arresting than a regular fright night.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 8, 2018

Another controversial early work, Eight Songs for a Mad King, combined monologues spoken, shrieked and gabbled by the mad George III with fragments of Handel's Messiah.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2016

True, the narration that bookends the show includes gabbled allusions to Chekhov’s life: apparently there are some incidental connections between him and a Russian baron in Lugano, Switzerland, whence hails Mr. Finzi Pasca.

From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2012

Its very rapidity leads to some gabbled speaking, and the hurtling style which Boyd adopted for Shakespeare's histories is sometimes ill-suited to a play full of rhetorical excess.

From The Guardian ● May 10, 2010

After a while the kid learned so fast she gave out of Spanish and just gabbled along with made-up sounds.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

Others were scattered around, calling out for the child in their irritating gabbling.

From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2021

This humanoid bot gave a speech to the UN, became a “citizen” of Saudi Arabia, and triggered headlines like “Sophia wants a baby” after gabbling some vague, pre-programmed remarks about the importance of families.

From The Verge ● Dec. 20, 2017

There’s no need for directorial intervention with material that like its gabbling characters, speaks and sings so urgently for itself.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2014

The key may lie in "gabbling," the Irish word for what goes inside each of our minds.

From Golf Digest ● Feb. 12, 2013

“I’ll get Dumbledore, I’ll be quicker, I know where his office is —” “He is mad,” said Krum doubtfully, staring down at Crouch, who was still gabbling to the tree, apparently convinced it was Percy.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling