gurgle

Its tick was a low-key gurgle and the alarm a dignified two-bell chime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

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

Sweeping the bar rapidly across the fretboard, he could conjure up a storm or make his instrument gurgle like water coming down a brook.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2023

He tried to say something to me, but his jaw shuddered so bad, all he could do was gurgle and moan.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith

Hardened globs of crude cling to fishing nets pulled from the lake, and natural gas gurgles up from busted underwater pipelines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

On a visit to a Texas ostrich farm, the researchers recorded 11 types of calls, ranging from high frequency peeps and gurgles in baby ostriches to low frequency boos and booms in adult males.

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024

They spent the night in cabins with no doors or windows, the better to let nighttime mountain breezes and the gurgles of the river lull them to sleep.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2023

As he gurgles away happily, she tells him that she's going to head out soon to earn money for him.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2023

From the ranks of the crawling babies came little squeals of excitement, gurgles and twitterings of pleasure.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

His dance partner, tax and accounting professional Omarr Herrera, 44, a stranger until this moment, gurgled back, “Ahhhh, I love you!”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2025

One-year-old Dilesh gurgled happily, playing with others who work there, while Netam answered questions from Poyam: “What will the doctor ask me? Do I need documents? Can my husband come to visit me?”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2022

The semi-turbid waters of Caney Creek gurgled down from a nearby hillside.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2022

She recalls trying to say “stop what are you doing,” but it came out as a gurgled mess.

From The Verge ● Nov. 29, 2017

Here, the little waves murmured and gurgled, like contented children.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

On many tracks, he crafts a thickened variation on Bob Dylan’s wild mercury sound, with gurgling organ, touches of strings and horns, and evocative swells of pedal-steel guitar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

The small town, nestled between tall Himalayan mountains with a gurgling Lidder River flowing through it, is called the mini-Switzerland of India.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025

Contemporary accounts describe an idyllic place of manicured lawns, a gurgling fountain and decent food and lodging.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025

Soundscape environmental composer Annea Lockwood dived deep into gripping, gurgling water sounds that were electronically enhanced and got the joint jumping with her piano percussion duo “Jitterbug,” performed by Vicki Ray and Wesley Sumpter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2024

The only sounds were the gentle gurgling of the swamp.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill