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[bur-buhl] / ˈbɜr bəl /


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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

Though Sirwan means “shouting river,” its sound was reduced to an indifferent burble.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 24, 2021

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

Jake heard a very loud burble, like bubbles in a bathtub.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

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

This is a two-tiered falls, widening as it descends: The water takes a long plunge, crashes into a pool, then burbles back up and falls again.

From Seattle Times Jun. 28, 2023

As flock animals, they’re in constant communication with each other; their burbles and chirps and purrs have become a relaxing soundtrack of my evenings.

From Washington Post Jan. 27, 2023

I don’t know if anything I said made sense, but somewhere between the gray sidewalk and the gray sky, a laugh burbles out of me.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden

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

From BBC Jan. 10, 2026

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

The cauldron of negativity has burbled since Dorian made his college debut more than three years ago.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 26, 2021

It's like the ugly reality that was being daintily concealed in the '80s has burbled up and consumed us all.

From Salon Mar. 23, 2019

As he spoke, Spoon Man whistled like the wind and burbled thunder from his lips, flailing his arms to capture the fury of the tempest.

From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper

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

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 17, 2026

Miller, the Mono Lake Committee’s Eastern Sierra policy director, and Geoff McQuilkin, its executive director, led the way to a burbling spring rimmed by innumerable hoof prints.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 7, 2025

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

His 2020 debut, “Desire,” was a solo album of pulsing, burbling synths and beats.

From New York Times Nov. 7, 2023

He rested against his tree and gazed at the river just being itself, burbling along.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig




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