babbling

Example Sentences

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The phrase echoed the one I had spoken years earlier to a babbling toddler in a Baltimore church.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026

Haden Pentecost, 41, was working on a flight from California to London when he started to become agitated and was described as "sweating" and "babbling".

From BBC • Aug. 22, 2025

That is not to say it would have been particularly shrewd for the president to have wandered into the Rose Garden and started babbling about what a “very fine person” Luigi Mangione is.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2025

I don't know, I'm starting to veer into tropes and babbling.

From Salon • Aug. 21, 2024

They can’t be expected to learn the languages of all the different species they deal with, babbling across the galaxy, some of them speaking in smells or patterned light.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson