gurgle

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

Toddlers who spot the coolly bespectacled, gray-haired septuagenarian at an airport point and gurgle, “Yo Gabba Gabba!” thanks to Mothersbaugh’s painting segment called “Mark’s Magic Pictures” on the wildly popular kids show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025

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

Bill said he wasn’t hungry, but I sure was, and as night fell and the mosquitoes came out, I lay in my hammock and listened to my stomach gurgle, and felt sorry for myself.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins

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

"It's hard. It's really hard. We smile, yes, and thank goodness, I have a new grandson," Volodymyr's wife Vera says, as baby Yaroslav gurgles beside her on a play mat.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2025

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

My stomach gurgles as soon as I hear the word swim.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

His 3-year-old son chewed on a piece of cake while the baby gurgled and continued to bounce nearby.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2021

“We did think a lot about that. But it was this truly magical bubble that gurgled up.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2020

In a dull and childless marriage to “a bastard of the standard-issue variety,” she is biding her time at Goode’s, her life “slipping away with the rinsing water as it gurgled down the plughole.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2020

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

From The Verge ● Nov. 29, 2017

Water gurgled into his mouth as Alfred tried to think of an answer.

From "The Contender" by Robert Lipsyte

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

He can make a Bach sarabande work anywhere, including on a river rafting trip with a background of gurgling water on his latest Bach recording.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2025

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

From BBC ● May 2, 2025

But he won’t do so any more, I can hear that already in his gurgling.

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