gurgle

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

Toddlers who spot the coolly bespectacled, gray-haired septuagenarian at an airport point and gurgle, “Yo Gabba Gabba!” thanks to Mothersbaugh’s painting segment called “Mark’s Magic Pictures” on the wildly popular kids show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025

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

Then suddenly he began to gurgle and white bubbles appeared around his lips.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl

When he meets adults he stares at them and takes them in, then kindly smiles and gurgles and lets them pat him, ruffle his hair, and take his face in their hands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025

"It's hard. It's really hard. We smile, yes, and thank goodness, I have a new grandson," Volodymyr's wife Vera says, as baby Yaroslav gurgles beside her on a play mat.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2025

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 also sound very different — while humpback whales are known for their haunting songs, gray whales make gurgles, grunts and croaks.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2024

He shivered against me, his murps only gradually quieting into contented gurgles as he calmed down.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

Serene spa music, a blend of classical piano and loudly chirping birds, trilled in the background as the machine sloshed and gurgled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026

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

While it rained, cars hissed and splashed on soaked city streets, and overwhelmed drainpipes rattled and gurgled as they sought to swallow the runoff.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2021

In a dull and childless marriage to “a bastard of the standard-issue variety,” she is biding her time at Goode’s, her life “slipping away with the rinsing water as it gurgled down the plughole.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2020

Annabeth stationed me next to a litde creek that gurgled over some rocks, then she and the rest of the team scattered into the trees.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

There were gurgling, cooing, month-and-a-half old newborns in Brooklyn and Westchester who had never known the soul-emptying pain of a crushing Knicks defeat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

Our route through quiet corridors reveals the hidden strains of this war: just one newborn gurgling in a cot, and one woman in labour.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

Soon Conor’s two preoccupations will unite in an offbeat way when a bug gets crushed in his slow-acting printer while it’s gurgling out a portrait.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025

A wave of noise hits me—the gurgling and hissing sound that Tess heard earlier.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu