gurgle
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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
My stomach let out a little contented gurgle, and I reached for a second piece.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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 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
As he gurgles away happily, she tells him that she's going to head out soon to earn money for him.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2023
My stomach gurgles as soon as I hear the word swim.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
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
Rock pigeons cooed and gurgled inside small crevices in the cave walls, marred in places by graffiti from long-ago visitors.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 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
“But how?” gurgled Scruffy, spitting out a mouthful of dirty water.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
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
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
"There was a bubbly gurgling sound from Victoria," she told the court.
From BBC ● May 2, 2025
The bloating and gurgling wasn’t just a painful shadow over his day; it was cramping his new hobby: skydiving.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2024
The gurgling began to surface, growing louder and deeper, with fewer pauses in between.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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