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

And even as rap continues to mutate daily, few can infuse emotional heft into each Auto-Tuned gurgle like Future, as if his heart is in his throat in more ways than one.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2023

In her laboratory, six saltwater aquaria gurgle reassuringly; on the back wall stand three cabinets with four hundred drawers in each, salvaged years ago from the office of Dr. Geffard.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

No cries or gurgles, the unnerving silence in the room is only broken by the high-pitched beeps of a pulse rate monitor.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2024

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

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

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

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

Rock pigeons cooed and gurgled inside small crevices in the cave walls, marred in places by graffiti from long-ago visitors.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2021

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

From The Verge ● Nov. 29, 2017

“L.A. at that time must have been like Paris at the turn of the century,” mused book club member Aida Jones as a three-tiered fountain gurgled from the other end of a spacious patio.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2017

“Oof,” gurgled from somewhere in the depths of Ignatius’ throat.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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

Her baby sister gurgling helplessly in the background isn’t the only one utterly dependent on her maternal care.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

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

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

But he won’t do so any more, I can hear that already in his gurgling.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque