gabble

And Lucky’s monologue—veering inanely through realms including religion, academics and sports—is delivered by Mr. Thornton not, as it usually is, as a galloping pile of gabble, but with a musing seriousness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2025

But the wobbly plot doesn’t really go anywhere; it’s more a series of disconnected scenes, featuring characters who aren’t really much more realistically textured than the figures in video games, although they certainly gabble more.

From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2016

The book consists entirely of the gabble and complaints of those buried in a village cemetery.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2015

Perhaps it was because I am tall; I gabble; I'm often accused of being reserved and sarcastic; and I don't like politicians much.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2013

Their gabble circled the cinder-block walls and popped from the gunnery slots.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli

Mr. Bernthal, an Emmy winner for “The Bear,” imbues Sonny with a pinballing energy as he gabbles orders at the hostages and begins flailing negotiations with the cops massing outside.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

He plays tenor saxophone in cries and gabbles and interval jumps and long tones; his music usually describes motion and spirit rather than corresponding to preset tonal centers, rhythms, and melodies.

From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2014

King Kong has so much to say, often in interesting ways, that it gabbles and fluffs its lines.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2013

He approves of wordlessness – the less you talk, the longer you live, one fisherman tells him – but gabbles away like mad in his diary.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2013

But I ought not to build on any future gabbles, for, to-morrow, lo! my friend may have discovered my ignoble reality, whereas he has heretofore been shaking hands with my noble ideality.

From The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by John McGovern

Harvey’s first collaboration with John Parish, Dance Hall at Louse Point, at its most strange and unpredictable: a gabbled, whispered vocal over a chaotic backing that occasionally resolves into something like an alt-rock chorus.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2019

Advance word on “Hereditary” told, or gabbled, of something more arresting than a regular fright night.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 8, 2018

Another controversial early work, Eight Songs for a Mad King, combined monologues spoken, shrieked and gabbled by the mad George III with fragments of Handel's Messiah.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2016

True, the narration that bookends the show includes gabbled allusions to Chekhov’s life: apparently there are some incidental connections between him and a Russian baron in Lugano, Switzerland, whence hails Mr. Finzi Pasca.

From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2012

“Oh yes, I’m fine,” Neville gabbled in the same unnaturally high voice.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

Others were scattered around, calling out for the child in their irritating gabbling.

From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2021

This humanoid bot gave a speech to the UN, became a “citizen” of Saudi Arabia, and triggered headlines like “Sophia wants a baby” after gabbling some vague, pre-programmed remarks about the importance of families.

From The Verge ● Dec. 20, 2017

The key may lie in "gabbling," the Irish word for what goes inside each of our minds.

From Golf Digest ● Feb. 12, 2013

Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian The young man strutting down Hartley Road, Nottingham, is gabbling into his mobile phone until he draws level with us.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2011

“I’ll get Dumbledore, I’ll be quicker, I know where his office is —” “He is mad,” said Krum doubtfully, staring down at Crouch, who was still gabbling to the tree, apparently convinced it was Percy.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling