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gabble

[gab-uhl] / ˈgæb əl /


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And Lucky’s monologue—veering inanely through realms including religion, academics and sports—is delivered by Mr. Thornton not, as it usually is, as a galloping pile of gabble, but with a musing seriousness.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 29, 2025

But the wobbly plot doesn’t really go anywhere; it’s more a series of disconnected scenes, featuring characters who aren’t really much more realistically textured than the figures in video games, although they certainly gabble more.

From New York Times Oct. 12, 2016

The book consists entirely of the gabble and complaints of those buried in a village cemetery.

From Washington Post Apr. 8, 2015

Perhaps it was because I am tall; I gabble; I'm often accused of being reserved and sarcastic; and I don't like politicians much.

From The Guardian Apr. 2, 2013

Their profound silence became broken by a conversational gabble.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Mr. Bernthal, an Emmy winner for “The Bear,” imbues Sonny with a pinballing energy as he gabbles orders at the hostages and begins flailing negotiations with the cops massing outside.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 31, 2026

He plays tenor saxophone in cries and gabbles and interval jumps and long tones; his music usually describes motion and spirit rather than corresponding to preset tonal centers, rhythms, and melodies.

From New York Times Jun. 12, 2014

King Kong has so much to say, often in interesting ways, that it gabbles and fluffs its lines.

From The Guardian Jun. 16, 2013

He approves of wordlessness – the less you talk, the longer you live, one fisherman tells him – but gabbles away like mad in his diary.

From The Guardian Jun. 1, 2013

And some thinks mebby some one has cut it down and took it away, and all gabbles to oncet.

From Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis

It was, Mr. Michele gabbled during the video, “The end of the beginning of an experiment.”

From New York Times Jul. 17, 2020

Advance word on “Hereditary” told, or gabbled, of something more arresting than a regular fright night.

From The New Yorker Jun. 8, 2018

Another controversial early work, Eight Songs for a Mad King, combined monologues spoken, shrieked and gabbled by the mad George III with fragments of Handel's Messiah.

From BBC Mar. 14, 2016

Its very rapidity leads to some gabbled speaking, and the hurtling style which Boyd adopted for Shakespeare's histories is sometimes ill-suited to a play full of rhetorical excess.

From The Guardian May 10, 2010

The baby and the dæmon gabbled cautiously together.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

Others were scattered around, calling out for the child in their irritating gabbling.

From Slate Jan. 30, 2021

This humanoid bot gave a speech to the UN, became a “citizen” of Saudi Arabia, and triggered headlines like “Sophia wants a baby” after gabbling some vague, pre-programmed remarks about the importance of families.

From The Verge Dec. 20, 2017

There’s no need for directorial intervention with material that like its gabbling characters, speaks and sings so urgently for itself.

From New York Times Dec. 12, 2014

I remembered, as I listened to Best's gabbling patter, that Simon Callow once described Saint-Saëns as "the Escoffier of music".

From The Guardian Jul. 13, 2013

She was gabbling something to Mr. Taphouse, but he couldn’t make it out either, because he said, “Slow down, Sister. Slow down. Take a breath and speak slowly.”

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman




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