warble

"None of you should be here," Harry said with an audible warble to his voice.

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026

By spotlighting her child’s untrained warble, Perry is attempting to demonstrate the human stakes of that undertaking while showing us that, as a record maker, she’s living by her own advice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2024

“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

The radio hummed with the faint warble of the gospel hour program.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

“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

Amid crunchy guitars and percussive hits of piano, Yachty’s Auto-Tuned warbles provide textured backing vocals for Webster, singing an ode to one of the cheaper pieces of jewelry ever coveted in a pop song.

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024

“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

Through the commotion, Trippie commands attention with his vocals, vacillating between cartoonish warbles and metal screams in the blink of an eye.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 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

On Thursday night, after 11 p.m., as lights warbled on the dark port water, police with masks loaded the accused onto vehicles and drove them to jail.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2023

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

"It's a sad thing but trooo-o-o," warbled Jeremy's father, reaching for the blueberry granola.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

Just a few tracks depart from the slow tempos and warbling vocals, and their difference makes them sound more exciting than they might in isolation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Yet seeing stadiums and bars packed with Latinos wearing the jerseys of their ancestral homes and warbling their national anthems during this World Cup has been a jolt of inspiration I wasn’t expecting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 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

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

A Synthetic Music machine was warbling out a super-cornet solo.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley