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Even when he was trying to sound upbeat, the river of resentment would burble up in his mannerisms and his peevish voice.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2024

Much of the stream called Little Brook flows below the pavement in Seattle’s Lake City neighborhood, emerging for just a moment to burble through a small park shadowed by apartment buildings.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2022

It’s an upbeat soul-gospel shuffle, filled with little flashes of exuberance from a frisky studio band: a quick bass run, an organ burble, a slide-guitar swoop, a ripple of honky-tonk piano.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2021

This was supposed to be a getaway with nothing to distract us but the burble of the water, the wind in the trees, a stack of novels and a 1,000-piece puzzle.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2019

The girls listened, but in the constant burble of jungle noises, it was hard to hear anything unusual.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

Birds sing and the Lukaya River burbles along the valley floor.

From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025

One line of evidence came from isotope measurements of helium that burbles up in Tibetan springs.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 9, 2024

The creek, a tributary to the wild Chinook-bearing Chehalis River, burbles beneath the ridge.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2023

Quirinal: The ever boisterous Trevi Fountain burbles at foot of the Quirinal.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 11, 2019

A glorious racket came from the branches—tweedling notes, peeps, burbles, high sharp calls.

From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau

A stone fountain burbled softly in his Japanese-inspired peace garden.

From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026

After Justice Arthur Engoron handed down that hefty penalty in the fraud case, Eric Trump burbled some nonsense about how his dad had created the skyline of the city.

From Salon ● Feb. 29, 2024

Alabama and Texas A&M illustrated one of the byproducts that have burbled up out of college football’s ever-shifting ecosystem.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2022

It was late summer at JourneyPure; the horses were grazing behind the barn, and a river burbled behind the cluster of cottages where patients live.

From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2018

All the nervousness she'd been feeling about skipping to fourth grade suddenly burbled up inside her.

From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies

The answers, though, seem largely incidental beside the pageantry of haute cuisine and burbling table talk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Meghan is a wealthy American woman living a royal dream, if you ignore the geyser of British tabloid bile constantly burbling in the background of her life.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2025

At the farm, the only sounds were a burbling stream, trilling birds and several inches of snow crunching beneath their feet.

From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2024

At a nearby downtown square in Tel Aviv, people come every evening to light candles crowding the circular rim of a burbling fountain, or to lay flowers in tribute to the missing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2023

Manchee lifts his leg on practically everything till he must be running outta pee and then he heads off under a bush, burbling to himself, finding a place to do his other business, I guess.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness