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

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

Perhaps it was because I am tall; I gabble; I'm often accused of being reserved and sarcastic; and I don't like politicians much.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 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

Wamphray continues obediently,—"'Country'; stop; 'Have thrown out flank guns'; stop; 'Shall I advance or re—'" "—tire," gabbles M'Micking, writing it down. "—'where I am'; stop; 'From O C Advance Guard'; stop; message ends."

From All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand by Ian Hay

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

From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2020

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

The baby and the dæmon gabbled cautiously together.

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

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

From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2021

We shake hands and seconds later she’s off, gabbling away at 100mph about everything that’s happened to her in the past few days.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 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

No matter what sound-making device is placed at their disposal, creatures in general do a great deal of gabbling, and it requires long patience and observation to edit out the parts lacking syntax and sense.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas