gurgle
Example Sentences
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“The car is a space where you’re often alone, a quiet private space, and all these thoughts, some of the stuff we’ve been pushing away, start to gurgle up.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2024
She expected to hear icebergs calving off the glacier—perhaps even the low, garden-hose gurgle of a subglacial river gushing out from underneath the glacier.
From National Geographic • Sep. 7, 2023
But the last time I called, he could only gurgle on the phone, having suffered a stroke.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 2023
Glisters of moisture beaded all over the boy’s body: detectably nervous sweat, wells of proto-tears, the gurgle of mucus rising in the nose and throat.
From Slate • Aug. 27, 2022
As he closed the window in his room, Evan could hear the gurgle of the gutters choking on the downpour.
From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies
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