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

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

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024

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

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

I'm not your kind: I don't let a girl like that upset me till I can't think of anything else, and go making such an ass of myself that the whole town gabbles about it.

From The Flirt by Booth Tarkington

It was, Mr. Michele gabbled during the video, “The end of the beginning of an experiment.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2020

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

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

“I’m delighted that the egg never hatched,” she gabbled.

From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White

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

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

From Golf Digest ● Feb. 12, 2013

Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian The young man strutting down Hartley Road, Nottingham, is gabbling into his mobile phone until he draws level with us.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2011

Already an excited voice was gabbling from the telescreen, but even as it started it was almost drowned by a roar of cheering from outside.

From "1984" by George Orwell