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

“Wash your hands, wash your hands” the prime minister kept gibbering last night.

From The Guardian • May 26, 2020

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 stood shaking and gibbering to himself, until with a rush the wind came upon them, hissing and snarling over the marshes.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien