gibbering

Example Sentences

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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

That sort of vitriol might have once been dismissed as the vile but essentially harmless gibbering of a clutch of lost boys.

From Slate • Aug. 21, 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

Because while it is a very nice place, with a good French-dominated wine list, Walter Manzke’s turbocharged bistro cooking could turn just about anyone into a gibbering, gluttonous fool.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2017

Pyat Pree was gibbering in some unknown tongue and hopping from one foot to the other.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin