How to Use babbling in a Sentence
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My favorite was a little babbling brook that came out of the side of the mountain.
—Kelly Cannon, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Aug. 2021
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But the running around, the babbling, the play — the chaos — is highly important.
—Arika Herron, Indianapolis Star, 28 June 2019
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And some of it (those transcripts, Jack and Neal high and babbling) is unreadable.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2022
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The cellulite over their asses shone with a brook’s babbling glimmer.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
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The crux of the prosecution's argument here is that … This is not some babbling idiot that didn't know which way was up.
—CBS News, 5 Nov. 2022
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In the background of her messages were the sounds of many people talking and walking around, children playing and babbling.
—Luciana Lopez, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2021
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Hopkin: Berg also found that a babbling parrot’s playlist can be boosted by steroids.
—Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 12 May 2023
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Cat Hollow Park is now even more handicapped accessible with views of the dams, scenic babbling brook and mill ponds.
—Courant Community, 27 Mar. 2018
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The fact that Missy Elliott's brilliant babbling just missed music's highest honor makes the heart droop.
—Chris Richards, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Jan. 2018
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In video from inside the chamber, a baby’s soft babbling can be heard in the background as the speaker of Parliament demands that Hassan leave.
—Megan Specia, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2019
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In video from inside the chamber, a baby’s soft babbling can be heard in the background as the speaker of Parliament demands that Ms. Hassan leave.
—Carlos Mureithi, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2019
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The bat pup chatter shared all the major features of human babbling, the researchers report today in Science.
—Cathleen O’Grady, Science | AAAS, 19 Aug. 2021
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But perhaps its loveliest place for a stroll would be the Central Park Rose Garden, which features 4,000 rose bushes, a tiered fountain, and even a babbling brook.
—Rose Marie Walano, Country Living, 14 June 2023
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The demo includes nature video clips of swans on a lake, bees buzzing and a babbling brook, where the listener feels completely transported into the scene.
—Louise Dixon, chicagotribune.com, 12 Nov. 2020
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The world is upon you as a pressure, an aesthetic offense, a ghastly payload of noise and glare and babbling, galumphing people.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 30 July 2021
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Leno asked about Koy’s 2-year-old son, and in the euphoria of the moment, Koy riffed on his baby boy‘s babbling, unlike his son’s more articulate playmate.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2022
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The lags were seen in behaviors such as rolling over, reaching for objects or babbling—basic milestones of infancy.
—Carey Goldberg, Fortune, 9 June 2022
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The bending is caused by gravity, which is not uniform through space, so the business about circular trajectories is just some earnest babbling.
—Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2011
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This tower of babbling is entertaining in its Trumpian way, but his economic point was washed away like an irrelevance.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2020
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Schweizer has created a theatrical ensemble that lives in and for the babbling, warbling moment.
—Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2019
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Musk seems to have programmed his Tesla navigation system to zoom directly into his own babbling trap.
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 18 Nov. 2022
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This inexpensive sound machine features six sounds, including rain, ocean waves, heart beat, summer night, forest, and babbling brook.
—Popsci Commerce Team, Popular Science, 9 Oct. 2020
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When its spigot is activated by an invisible hand, the sound is deceptively soothing, like a babbling brook or a fountain designed to lull.
—Chris Vognar, Chron, 17 Feb. 2023
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Children can’t get enough of the Minions, which are essentially toddlers themselves, needy and nonsensical in their babbling but sweet and vulnerable.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 7 July 2022
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For example, if one nestling is given corticosterone, did all its siblings’ babbling increase?
—Grrlscientist, Forbes, 21 June 2022
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This indicates that babbling is a widespread and natural developmental process in parrots.
—Grrlscientist, Forbes, 21 June 2022
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Dedicated by the Joaquin County residents of Japanese ancestry, this secret hideaway beckons you across its red arched bridge to meander along a babbling brook, where waterfalls splash into a koi fish pond.
—Rebecca Deurlein, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
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Punctuating the soft babbling of water meandering lazily downstream, nature takes over for technology, coaxing me slowly to consciousness before my phone alarm has a chance to ring.
—al.com, 9 July 2019
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My favorite was a little babbling brook that came out of the side of the mountain.
—Kelly Cannon, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Aug. 2021
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But the running around, the babbling, the play — the chaos — is highly important.
—Arika Herron, Indianapolis Star, 28 June 2019
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In the bedroom closet was her brother, naked and babbling.
—Teri Figueroa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 May 2018
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The two share a booth—and a babbling conversation—over breakfast in the heartwarming ad.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 20 June 2019
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No traffic noise, no ringing cell phones, no babbling newscasts.
—Mark Rozzo, Town & Country, 11 Feb. 2019
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Above all else, there’s a whole lot of Jack-Jack, who’s turning into the Minion of the Incredibles movies: the cute babbling thing that takes over the story and slows down the action for self-indulgent comic riffs.
—Tasha Robinson, The Verge, 15 June 2018
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In Samurai Jack‘s fifth season, the namesake hero would wander along a serene, wooded path with the sound of amber leaves delicately falling into a babbling stream.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 26 Sep. 2019
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Buffered from the drone of the traffic and smog in North America’s most populous metropolis, the former rock quarry’s flowering shrubs and babbling creek are a haven for hummingbirds.
—National Geographic, 18 Apr. 2018
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There’s some debate over whether this sort of twin speak is actually language or merely a joyful, babbling imitation of language.
—Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 20 June 2017
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The outdoors provide us with wide-ranging sensory stimulation: breathtaking, panoramic views; the dulcet sounds of babbling springs and sparkling birdsong; the satisfying crunch of twigs and pine needles beneath our feet.
—Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 17 Jan. 2020
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REV’s production reduces one of literatures’s most poetic, erudite speakers to a babbling fool.
—Tirdad Derakhshani, Philly.com, 9 July 2017
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In the bedroom closet was her brother, naked and babbling.
—Teri Figueroa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 May 2018
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The two share a booth—and a babbling conversation—over breakfast in the heartwarming ad.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 20 June 2019
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No traffic noise, no ringing cell phones, no babbling newscasts.
—Mark Rozzo, Town & Country, 11 Feb. 2019
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Above all else, there’s a whole lot of Jack-Jack, who’s turning into the Minion of the Incredibles movies: the cute babbling thing that takes over the story and slows down the action for self-indulgent comic riffs.
—Tasha Robinson, The Verge, 15 June 2018
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In Samurai Jack‘s fifth season, the namesake hero would wander along a serene, wooded path with the sound of amber leaves delicately falling into a babbling stream.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 26 Sep. 2019
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Buffered from the drone of the traffic and smog in North America’s most populous metropolis, the former rock quarry’s flowering shrubs and babbling creek are a haven for hummingbirds.
—National Geographic, 18 Apr. 2018
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There’s some debate over whether this sort of twin speak is actually language or merely a joyful, babbling imitation of language.
—Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 20 June 2017
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The outdoors provide us with wide-ranging sensory stimulation: breathtaking, panoramic views; the dulcet sounds of babbling springs and sparkling birdsong; the satisfying crunch of twigs and pine needles beneath our feet.
—Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 17 Jan. 2020
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REV’s production reduces one of literatures’s most poetic, erudite speakers to a babbling fool.
—Tirdad Derakhshani, Philly.com, 9 July 2017
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