gibbering

Example Sentences

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Wodehouse never exhausted the counterpoint between Bertie’s slangy gibbering and half-remembered literary allusions with Jeeves’ carefully modulated responses: “Very well, Jeeves, you agree with me that the situation is a lulu?”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2025

Hermes leads them, gibbering like bats, past various underworld landmarks, the white rock of Leukas, etc., and on their way they pass the δῆμον ὀνείρων, which Homer leaves undescribed and unexplained.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 17, 2018

That sort of vitriol might have once been dismissed as the vile but essentially harmless gibbering of a clutch of lost boys.

From Slate • Aug. 21, 2018

“He sprawled on the floor, a gibbering, horror-stricken wretch, and confessed his sin,” Riis wrote.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2018

Buckland ended up by losing his mind and finished his days a gibbering wreck in a lunatic asylum in Clapham, not far from where Mantell had suffered his crippling accident.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson