gurgle

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

Toddlers who spot the coolly bespectacled, gray-haired septuagenarian at an airport point and gurgle, “Yo Gabba Gabba!” thanks to Mothersbaugh’s painting segment called “Mark’s Magic Pictures” on the wildly popular kids show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025

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 tuned in to the creek’s gurgle, imagining a pristine river on a deserted island, its shore lined with orchids and gardenias, with birds warbling sweet melodies.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

Hardened globs of crude cling to fishing nets pulled from the lake, and natural gas gurgles up from busted underwater pipelines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

No cries or gurgles, the unnerving silence in the room is only broken by the high-pitched beeps of a pulse rate monitor.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2024

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 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

My chest gurgles and my throat stings from the tear gas.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

The waterway gurgled steadily, but the flow was not as violent as on Monday, when water spilled out on the adjacent Olive Mill Road.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2023

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

While it rained, cars hissed and splashed on soaked city streets, and overwhelmed drainpipes rattled and gurgled as they sought to swallow the runoff.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2021

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

From The Verge ● Nov. 29, 2017

No sooner had Bull reached behind Jasper Jr. to cut the fishing line than the motor gurgled to a dead stop.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen

There were gurgling, cooing, month-and-a-half old newborns in Brooklyn and Westchester who had never known the soul-emptying pain of a crushing Knicks defeat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

On many tracks, he crafts a thickened variation on Bob Dylan’s wild mercury sound, with gurgling organ, touches of strings and horns, and evocative swells of pedal-steel guitar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

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

Contemporary accounts describe an idyllic place of manicured lawns, a gurgling fountain and decent food and lodging.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025

It’s been making strange gurgling sounds and expelling six-month-old-rotten-egg smells.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman