gurgle

Its tick was a low-key gurgle and the alarm a dignified two-bell chime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

“The car is a space where you’re often alone, a quiet private space, and all these thoughts, some of the stuff we’ve been pushing away, start to gurgle up.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2024

She expected to hear icebergs calving off the glacier—perhaps even the low, garden-hose gurgle of a subglacial river gushing out from underneath the glacier.

From National Geographic ● Sep. 7, 2023

But the last time I called, he could only gurgle on the phone, having suffered a stroke.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 24, 2023

One of them sings hymns in a high cracked tenor before he begins to gurgle.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

When he meets adults he stares at them and takes them in, then kindly smiles and gurgles and lets them pat him, ruffle his hair, and take his face in their hands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025

No cries or gurgles, the unnerving silence in the room is only broken by the high-pitched beeps of a pulse rate monitor.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2024

On a visit to a Texas ostrich farm, the researchers recorded 11 types of calls, ranging from high frequency peeps and gurgles in baby ostriches to low frequency boos and booms in adult males.

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024

They spent the night in cabins with no doors or windows, the better to let nighttime mountain breezes and the gurgles of the river lull them to sleep.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2023

It’s a pleasant little stream that gurgles through the Alisal against the Gabilan Mountains on the east of the Salinas Valley.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

One-year-old Dilesh gurgled happily, playing with others who work there, while Netam answered questions from Poyam: “What will the doctor ask me? Do I need documents? Can my husband come to visit me?”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2022

While it rained, cars hissed and splashed on soaked city streets, and overwhelmed drainpipes rattled and gurgled as they sought to swallow the runoff.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2021

She recalls trying to say “stop what are you doing,” but it came out as a gurgled mess.

From The Verge ● Nov. 29, 2017

“L.A. at that time must have been like Paris at the turn of the century,” mused book club member Aida Jones as a three-tiered fountain gurgled from the other end of a spacious patio.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2017

Over the last shelf of rotting stone the stream gurgled and fell down into a brown bog and was lost.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

On many tracks, he crafts a thickened variation on Bob Dylan’s wild mercury sound, with gurgling organ, touches of strings and horns, and evocative swells of pedal-steel guitar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

Soon Conor’s two preoccupations will unite in an offbeat way when a bug gets crushed in his slow-acting printer while it’s gurgling out a portrait.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

"There was a bubbly gurgling sound from Victoria," she told the court.

From BBC ● May 2, 2025

Soundscape environmental composer Annea Lockwood dived deep into gripping, gurgling water sounds that were electronically enhanced and got the joint jumping with her piano percussion duo “Jitterbug,” performed by Vicki Ray and Wesley Sumpter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2024

It has a gurgling fountain in the center.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar