gibbering

Example Sentences

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Being a good host doesn’t mean you have to spend two hours gibbering in horror, being glared at by innocent people just trying to enjoy a nice meal.

From Slate • Mar. 9, 2020

You need confidence to celebrate yourself so explicitly, and the Oscars are a gibbering mess.

From The Guardian • Feb. 23, 2019

Hermes leads them, gibbering like bats, past various underworld landmarks, the white rock of Leukas, etc., and on their way they pass the δῆμον ὀνείρων, which Homer leaves undescribed and unexplained.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 17, 2018

The men who leer after Candy are truly fatuous primates, fit for little but gibbering at the moon.

From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2018

He has puzzled the greatest medical minds, and sent many of them gibbering to their own hospitals.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer