gibber
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It's one of the novel's funniest scenes: the men gibber through a jungle – lost in space and out of their Edwardian gourds.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2010
"I like your watch," he says while I gibber into his big, beautiful, travel-befuddled face.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 18, 2010
And the ocean turned out to gibber rather than murmur.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 25, 2010
Suddenly, from just over her head, she heard a weird, tremulous cry, half wail, half gibber.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its high-pitched gibber gabber alarmed the saints again.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
Today, as Amanda in Private Lives, she whines, gibbers and snorts with all the grace of an untutored Eliza Doolittle.
From Time Magazine Archive
They say he appears and grovels on the ground and holds you by the legs and gibbers and moans like he did when he was alive.
From Rainbow Valley by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
There is something in the notion, for it was a risky trip, And a spectre is a nuisance when he gibbers on board ship.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 1, 1890 by Various
Northly or Southly may I ride or walk Beneath the glacial Crag or fronded Stalk, But still the Spectre gibbers in my Ears And drowns my Spirits in a Sea of Talk.
From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. by Wallace Irwin
He never came back, and I often wonder if he is dead, or if he still gibbers about his millions in some asylum for the insane.
From The Road by Jack London
In Puritan poems, the forest gibbered and howled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2016
Very quickly, soldiers began emerging with bizarre symptoms; they shuddered and gibbered or became unable to speak at all.
From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2016
And sometimes I have to remind myself that in addition to being Terry Gilliam the great director, Terry Gilliam the visionary, this is also Cardinal Fang, the one who gibbered about the Spanish Inquisition.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2014
Newman complained during his life time of the phantoms that "gibbered" instead of the real him.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2010
His hands and feet threshed in the tangle of the wild grapevine, and he whimpered and gibbered as he tried to get up.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
Wodehouse never exhausted the counterpoint between Bertie’s slangy gibbering and half-remembered literary allusions with Jeeves’ carefully modulated responses: “Very well, Jeeves, you agree with me that the situation is a lulu?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025
But one glance at Gammell’s hollow-eyed ghouls, shrieking skeletal brides, and gibbering specters told any kid that here was something that danced right on the edge of taboo.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2019
Hermes leads them, gibbering like bats, past various underworld landmarks, the white rock of Leukas, etc., and on their way they pass the δῆμον ὀνείρων, which Homer leaves undescribed and unexplained.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 17, 2018
“He sprawled on the floor, a gibbering, horror-stricken wretch, and confessed his sin,” Riis wrote.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2018
Buckland ended up by losing his mind and finished his days a gibbering wreck in a lunatic asylum in Clapham, not far from where Mantell had suffered his crippling accident.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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