How to Use warble in a Sentence

warble

noun
  • A few dozen people showed up to hear who could best imitate the warble of the goose, called nigliq.
    Joshua Partlow, Anchorage Daily News, 27 June 2022
  • Her voice, which can transform from a warble to a howl in an instant, skates along the gentle thrum of guitars and synths.
    Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Wood sang the lyrics outright this time, revealing a U.S.-style emo warble that gave the album much of its tender tone.
    Spin Staff, SPIN, 7 June 2022
  • While recording the subjects' brainwaves, the researchers played each of them a series of sounds with unexpected changes of tone (a one-time warble in the note).
    Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2011
  • His voice — a soft warble — is both bold and seductive, enlivening the chill lava-lamp vibes conveyed in his songs.
    Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Which makes sense, as its odd-cylinder warble is a sound that any human could impersonate.
    Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Audrey played an eight-string bass in the intro which broke a string on her first take; luckily, that take was perfect, and its eerie warble is one of my favorite sounds on this record.
    Daniel Kohn, Spin, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Ford adds drama with a synthetic soundtrack of a big-engine burble that's been smoothed into a warble.
    Eric Tingwall, Car and Driver, 7 July 2021
  • The whoosh and warble of the turbo inline-five from the groundbreaking Quattro conjures up peak rally greatness and is a brand-defining classic.
    Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Chase’s lines climbed and dipped, gaining altitude and thinning in the light before diving down into gnarly warbles and shudders.
    Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
  • We were also disappointed by the poor sound quality of the Bose audio system, with the only noticeable bass coming from the warble of the fake engine sound.
    Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Lenker’s personal, pastoral songwriting and fragile, down-home warble are always at the center of Big Thief’s music.
    Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Olsen’s voice was higher and wilder then, occasionally slipping into a kind of vaporous warble.
    Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
  • Songbirds — species such as warbles, sparrows and chickadees — have had declining populations for decades, Blake said.
    Conocophillips Alaska, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2023
  • Both engines have layers of character; our favorite attributes are the throat-clearing cackles when lifting off the throttle in the Z06 and the warbles that accompany aggressive upshifts in the GT3.
    Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 5 July 2023
  • From the blackbirds with red shoulder pads to the murmuration-forming starlings, these birds have plenty to recommend them, including their warbles, chirps, and whistles.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Her voice is lithe, elastic and effortlessly comic — her weird little flicks, trills and warbles earning delighted giggles from the audience.
    Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
  • Her silky vocals – so perfectly complemented by Nicks’ intense warble – and keyboards added a soft touch to a band initially submerged in blues rock, and helped remodel Fleetwood Mac into a powerhouse pop-rock outfit in the ‘70s and ‘80s.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Vu puts particular emphasis on that last word, wandering up and down the scale in a beautiful warble, adding colorful syllables with each inflection.
    Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Most of the cast, particularly Messing, who delivers an awkward caricature of a teen and then the exaggerated hand-wringing and dithering warble of an old woman, struggle in the sunrise and sunset years.
    New York Times, 10 Apr. 2022
  • A few dozen people showed up to hear who could best imitate the warble of the goose, called nigliq.
    Joshua Partlow, Anchorage Daily News, 27 June 2022
  • Her voice, which can transform from a warble to a howl in an instant, skates along the gentle thrum of guitars and synths.
    Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Wood sang the lyrics outright this time, revealing a U.S.-style emo warble that gave the album much of its tender tone.
    Spin Staff, SPIN, 7 June 2022
  • While recording the subjects' brainwaves, the researchers played each of them a series of sounds with unexpected changes of tone (a one-time warble in the note).
    Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2011
  • His voice — a soft warble — is both bold and seductive, enlivening the chill lava-lamp vibes conveyed in his songs.
    Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Which makes sense, as its odd-cylinder warble is a sound that any human could impersonate.
    Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Audrey played an eight-string bass in the intro which broke a string on her first take; luckily, that take was perfect, and its eerie warble is one of my favorite sounds on this record.
    Daniel Kohn, Spin, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Ford adds drama with a synthetic soundtrack of a big-engine burble that's been smoothed into a warble.
    Eric Tingwall, Car and Driver, 7 July 2021
  • The whoosh and warble of the turbo inline-five from the groundbreaking Quattro conjures up peak rally greatness and is a brand-defining classic.
    Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Chase’s lines climbed and dipped, gaining altitude and thinning in the light before diving down into gnarly warbles and shudders.
    Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 9 May 2023

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