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 quotation emerged from Shteyngart's mouth in a richly syrupy Caribbean accent, quite unlike his own rat-tat-tat gabble; his armoury as a comedian includes a gift for mimicry.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 4, 2010

He poked his head into the doorway and began to gabble good-naturedly about something or other, and after a few minutes we picked up our drinks and followed him back to the living room.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

“He’s looney,” whispered Tansey; “he gabbles to hisself.”

From A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

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

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

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

She was gabbling something to Mr. Taphouse, but he couldn’t make it out either, because he said, “Slow down, Sister. Slow down. Take a breath and speak slowly.”

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman