babble
Example Sentences
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Instead he softened the blow with corporate babble: “You were building the plane while you flew it.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
Meanwhile, the southern pied babbler does not, in fact, merely babble.
From Salon • May 29, 2025
Above us swallows dart through the air, Graeme takes a picture of a damsel fly and the brook to our side continues to babble.
From BBC • Aug. 4, 2024
About halfway through my babble, Tillman stopped me and said something like, ask it again, get to the point.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2024
I heard the babble of what must have been a small stream, and in the faint moonlight I could see Mr. Drysdale standing right at the water’s edge.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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