How to Use babble in a Sentence

babble

verb

• He'll babble on about sports all night if you let him.
• Her cousins were babbling in an unfamiliar dialect.
• Pay no attention to her. She's just babbling.
• Let’s hope Merkel is right, and that Trump is merely babbling.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2017
• From rushing mountain streams to babbling creeks and the forks of the Tug River, this bringer of life is all around.
  — Sara Sidner, CNN, 25 Mar. 2023
• Our brooks will babble in the courts, Seeking damages for torts.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022
• Noisli can simulate the sound of a café or a babbling brook.
  — David Pierce, WSJ, 3 June 2018
• The twins like to babble and laugh with each other before falling asleep.
  — Suzy Khimm, NBC news, 20 Dec. 2023
• Weddings are held on the bank of a babbling creek or in the main lodge, where dinners and receptions take place.
  — Kelsy Chauvin, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Nov. 2023
• Kingston then points an open hand to the TV and babbles some more as if to hypothesize on the next season.
  — Amir Vera, CNN, 7 June 2019
• Toward the end of the conversation Kingston calms down, babbles some more and laughs.
  — Amir Vera, CNN, 7 June 2019
• Kids and adults of all ages are invited to dip their hands and toes into our babbling stream.
  — charlotteobserver, 29 May 2017
• Babies babble and make faces and gestures, and the people who love them respond in kind.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 3 July 2024
• But now, a new study shows that baby parrots do babble.
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• The bomb was meant to impress and would usually be met with wide eyes, drooling, and babbling.
  — Time, 21 Aug. 2023
• Now more than 7 months old, Kora giggles, babbles, sits and rolls over.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 29 Apr. 2018
• The Dure River babbled below my window at night, and at breakfast the hallways were laced with the heady scent of nutmeg.
  — Lorna Parkes, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
• Much to my surprise, Hunter rolled around in the crib, babbling to himself, and fell back asleep for another 45 minutes.
  — Lindsey Benoit O’Connell, Good Housekeeping, 3 May 2019
• Some were smiling, some were screaming, some were babbling.
  — Joanne Silberner, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2017
• Pham starts out witchy and crazy, skipping around in a hunched position and babbling nonsense.
  — Katherine Schloss, Orange County Register, 10 Mar. 2017
• Better yet, spend the night at a local inn, which is likely snuggled up to a babbling brook or farmstead.
  — Kaitlyn Wylde, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2018
• So 90 percent of my life off-camera is babbling nonsense, right?
  — Fox News, 11 Sep. 2018
• Family Stream Search: Kids and adults of all ages are invited to dip their hands and toes into our babbling stream.
  — charlotteobserver, 29 May 2017
• The place is bustling with tourists babbling in various languages, different shades of burnt.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2019
• At the turning point of the show’s story, Ciscone’s peacefully babbling river claims a life.
  — Orange County Register, 10 Feb. 2017
• There are those who drift off by instructing their Amazon Alexa or Google Home to play recordings of babbling brooks and cicadas.
  — Stephanie Rosenbloom, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2018
• When a child babbles and a parent reacts gleefully, the child learns to keep talking and exploring.
  — Jenny Anderson, Time, 8 Aug. 2023
• He’s eaten his first real food, he’s begun to babble, and he’s been showing signs of crawling at any moment.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 28 Jan. 2024
• The wind whistles through the trees overhead, the birds chirp and flutter, a brook babbles along, the car horns and radios on a nearby highway blare incessantly…wait, car horns?
  — Fox News, 8 May 2017
• Patiño woke up in a recovery room, groggy and babbling about his favorite Colombian soccer team.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024