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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

Hugo House is steamy by comparison, a hotbed of nerves and gabble.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024

But the wobbly plot doesn’t really go anywhere; it’s more a series of disconnected scenes, featuring characters who aren’t really much more realistically textured than the figures in video games, although they certainly gabble more.

From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2016

I mean gabble, gabble, gabble, gabble … Has she some new stories for you?

From The Guardian ● Jan. 18, 2013

Their gabble circled the cinder-block walls and popped from the gunnery slots.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli

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

"She has read the index to Bastian's book, and denies her Creator, and gabbles of Bacteria, boiled and unboiled, ever since."

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 by Various

Harvey’s first collaboration with John Parish, Dance Hall at Louse Point, at its most strange and unpredictable: a gabbled, whispered vocal over a chaotic backing that occasionally resolves into something like an alt-rock chorus.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2019

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

The guard gabbled something in Fjerdan, and Kaz saw Matthias and some of the others start to strip down.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

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

From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2021

Denise was now gabbling loudly into the phone beyond the flimsy partition wall.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 14, 2018

She chattered, unfazed, above sudden gusts of wind, shrilly gabbling turkeys and the occasional cricket-like ringtone of her phone.

From New York Times ● May 10, 2018

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

“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