gibbering

Example Sentences

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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

The music – arcing, frantic atonal guitar and gibbering backing vocals – sounds deranged; Bowie sings like a man on the brink of a nervous breakdown.

From The Guardian • Mar. 19, 2020

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

That sort of vitriol might have once been dismissed as the vile but essentially harmless gibbering of a clutch of lost boys.

From Slate • Aug. 21, 2018

They panted up, white-faced, and began gibbering out their tale of terror.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks