gurgle

Example Sentences

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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

Their breathing may be slowed, with gurgling, or stopped altogether.

From New York Times

He gurgles, coos and giggles, but he most often chooses a quizzical, slightly exasperated frown, as if to say, “You don’t honestly think I had anything to do with that, do you?”

From New York Times

Arguing that art music arose from race-based folk cultures, Wagner describes Jewish folk music as a “sense-and-sound confounding gurgle, yodel, and cackle.”

From New York Times

Apartment complexes still burn, water gurgles out of damaged fire hydrants and shattered buildings moan in the wind, their curtains sucked through broken windows like loose sails.

From New York Times