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verb

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of burble
Noun
The drag setting requires raised voices for conversation, while normal and sport settings recede to the background burble V8 fans will recognize. Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2024 What weird burble in the zeitgeist has somehow manifested in lines of identical Chalamets? Aja Romano, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Verb
Every inch of The White Lotus’s Thailand resort induces a mix of envious longing and burbling queasiness. Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2025 Walk under a hammock of dense palm trees alongside a burbling stream on the 15-acre Joy and Gordon Patterson Botanical Garden. Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 17 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for burble
Recent Examples of Synonyms for burble
Verb
  • Groups outside were chattering over Peronis and cigarettes.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 June 2025
  • Locals chattered over $3 glasses of kir, while the younger set messed about in kayaks or swung from a rope into the cool green river.
    Rachel Howard, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • Trump prattles on about the economy while the actors freeze behind him in their ancient Galilee garb.
    Rosa Escandon, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
  • She was getting winded on our walk, and her prattle was broken up by heavy breaths.
    Joshua Cohen, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • But when the disheveled, withdrawn ex-friend shows up in the locker room gibbering about an evil spirit, Sam is mortified, impulsively knocking to the ground the grungy-looking Mason jar that Tamira has been carrying around.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 18 Sep. 2023
  • For a while, police interest bent toward a Phud who had been warned he might be eliminated from the program, who had seemed almost exultant about the fire and gibbered gleefully about the media spotlight.
    New York Times, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
Noun
  • And given that these are not professional actors, or even (in most cases) people who aspire to be, LaBeouf’s words to them, full of deadly serious jabber about empathy and ego, are pumped up with an intensity that feels overdone and inappropriate.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 May 2025
  • Worse, such jabber crowds out essential coverage of genuine threats to democracy and the visions of the two parties.
    Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
Noun
  • But water as the power source for a vehicle is nonsense.
    Robert Rapier, Forbes.com, 15 June 2025
  • But the idea of an algorithm, which is as prone to generate nonsense as anything lucid, representing a deceased person’s thoughts or behaviors seems terrifying.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 13 June 2025
Verb
  • As that rare thing, a young female naturist happy to chat on camera, Saoirse Newhouse has been in demand with the press at the opening ceremony.
    Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 19 June 2025
  • Special guests and close friends are expected to appear, to chat about their family life, careers, life experiences, homes and gardens.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 18 June 2025
Verb
  • The sky was gray, and rain pattered down through the leaves.
    Jessica Camille Aguirre, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Timbaland’s programming is at warp level, with pattering percussion across drum heads, yielding a crowd-pleaser that Elliott carries at a galloping pace.
    Steven J. Horowitz, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Zac also blabs that Bret and Demi have skeletons in their closet and are working to get a cease-and-desist.
    Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 18 May 2025
  • Unfortunately, The Croat, being a complete and total tattletale, blabbed to The Dama that Negan had hesitated.
    Charlie Mason, TVLine, 11 May 2025

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“Burble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burble. Accessed 29 Jun. 2025.

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