gurgle

Its tick was a low-key gurgle and the alarm a dignified two-bell chime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

She expected to hear icebergs calving off the glacier—perhaps even the low, garden-hose gurgle of a subglacial river gushing out from underneath the glacier.

From National Geographic ● Sep. 7, 2023

But the last time I called, he could only gurgle on the phone, having suffered a stroke.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 24, 2023

I see it in the hummingbirds flitting past my window, hear it in the gurgle of my emptying dishwasher and feel it in the vibration of the cellphone in my pocket.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2023

From below came the gurgle of running water passing through the Stockyards’ sewer system.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

When he meets adults he stares at them and takes them in, then kindly smiles and gurgles and lets them pat him, ruffle his hair, and take his face in their hands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025

On a visit to a Texas ostrich farm, the researchers recorded 11 types of calls, ranging from high frequency peeps and gurgles in baby ostriches to low frequency boos and booms in adult males.

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024

They also sound very different — while humpback whales are known for their haunting songs, gray whales make gurgles, grunts and croaks.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2024

They spent the night in cabins with no doors or windows, the better to let nighttime mountain breezes and the gurgles of the river lull them to sleep.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2023

Sophia opened the door a crack, and Claire could hear the gurgles and giggles as the infants “talked” to one another.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

His 3-year-old son chewed on a piece of cake while the baby gurgled and continued to bounce nearby.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2021

“We did think a lot about that. But it was this truly magical bubble that gurgled up.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2020

In a dull and childless marriage to “a bastard of the standard-issue variety,” she is biding her time at Goode’s, her life “slipping away with the rinsing water as it gurgled down the plughole.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2020

She recalls trying to say “stop what are you doing,” but it came out as a gurgled mess.

From The Verge ● Nov. 29, 2017

“Oof,” gurgled from somewhere in the depths of Ignatius’ throat.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Soon Conor’s two preoccupations will unite in an offbeat way when a bug gets crushed in his slow-acting printer while it’s gurgling out a portrait.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

He can make a Bach sarabande work anywhere, including on a river rafting trip with a background of gurgling water on his latest Bach recording.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2025

The small town, nestled between tall Himalayan mountains with a gurgling Lidder River flowing through it, is called the mini-Switzerland of India.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025

"There was a bubbly gurgling sound from Victoria," she told the court.

From BBC ● May 2, 2025

Sitting against the trunk of a giant cottonwood tree, they listened to the creek gurgling and watched the horses munch on grass.

From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III