warble
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"None of you should be here," Harry said with an audible warble to his voice.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026
It sounds fantastic, and it’s so loyal to every jaunty warble that audiences might not notice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025
“We’d like to thank everyone for being here tonight,” he said in a muffled warble.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2024
Then comes that "no no no no please don't" passage, when Barrymore's voice shudders with a tender warble.
From Salon ● May 1, 2024
Outside the hospital, I heard the warbling of a bird, and it was such a familiar warble that I stopped and listened for its source.
From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech
“Crying in a suit and tie,” she warbles, referring to her onstage look from a few years ago, then twisting the image into a joke with “But you should see the other guy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
I'm not quiet, but my voice still warbles.
From Salon ● May 21, 2023
“Today we recognize the men who’ve hacked the system,” says the narrator as a background singer warbles “hacked the system.”
From Washington Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
Joni Mitchell’s classic tune in which she warbles, “California, I’m coming home.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
It warbles as it reaches out one of its long limbs.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
To date, we’ve placed one order on Amazon: an irregularly oriented clothing-rod system that fits my old, warbled closet.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2025
RAYYAN, Qatar — Three different reporters got the microphone at various times and said they didn’t really have any questions, then warbled on with thanks and praise and pretty much euphoria.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2022
Alarms for the new quake came less than an hour after a quake alarms warbled in a nationwide earthquake simulation marking major quakes that struck on the same date in 1985 and 2017.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2022
Nas warbled through a few reps of the line, cracking before he could complete it.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2021
“Who can tell me how many apples I have here?” warbled Teacher on day six.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
As they watched themselves warbling, a camera captured the full array of their facial expressions—moans, groans and self-conscious laughter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The frontman seems to somehow anchor the rhythmic chaos, warbling words that swerve wildly between incisiveness and irreverence; wisdom and wonderful nonsense.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2026
The warbling never improved, but it was heartening to see someone get over their paralyzing self-consciousness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2025
Like a trio of canaries in a coal mine warbling at the top of their lungs, three recent studies warn of various ways that global warming is drastically changing the planet.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2024
She starts to strum it as Robert hoists himself inside, and the truck starts forward, carrying the banjo sounds and her warbling voice away from us.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
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