Babble

//ˈbæb.(ə)l//

"Babble" in a Sentence (19 examples)

I do tend to babble at times.

His mystical babble bores me, and I am not going to continue listening to such bullshit. I have more important things to do.

Man has an instinctive tendency to speak, as we see in the babble of our young children, while no child has an instinctive tendency to bake, brew or write.

Japanese do not feel it necessary to make babble in a silent moment, which Westerners find discomforting.

The sounds babies make when they babble seem to contain a lot of anterior consonants.

Inside the Brazilian American Cultural Institute in Washington, voices babble in American accented Portuguese as students from a variety of backgrounds gather to study Brazilian Portuguese.

In the excitement, people would fall and roll on the floor and speak in what seemed an unintelligible babble.

All James could do was babble.

She didn't pay attention to her husband's babble.

Those who babble about politics the most are those who don't understand anything about it.

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The men were babbling, so we couldn't make sense of anything.

She babbled on for hours about the importance of some new gadget.

Radical rather than rhetorical, babble like an oracle

Hounds are said to babble, or to be babbling, when they are too noisy after having found a good scent.

In every babbling brook he finds a friend.

All this vvhile John had conn'd over ſuch a Catalogue of hard VVords, as vvere enough to conjure up the Devil; theſe he uſed to babble indifferently in all Companies, eſpecially at Coffee-houſes; ſo that his Neighbour Tradeſmen began to ſhun his Company as a Man that vvas crack'd.

This is mere moral babble.

[M]an has an instinctive tendency to speak, as we see in the babble of our young children; whilst no child has an instinctive tendency to brew, bake, or write.

[T]he babble of the stream / Fell, and without the steady glare / Shrank the sick olive sere and small.

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