gurgle

Example Sentences

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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

I see it in the hummingbirds flitting past my window, hear it in the gurgle of my emptying dishwasher and feel it in the vibration of the cellphone in my pocket.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 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

There was silence in which every bubble and gurgle of the surrounding potions seemed magnified tenfold.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling