How to Use babbling in a Sentence

babbling

1 of 2 noun
  • 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
  • The cellulite over their asses shone with a brook’s babbling glimmer.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Leon leaned down to inspect how the cement bags were holding up against the babbling water.
    — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
  • But the running around, the babbling, the play — the chaos — is highly important.
    — Arika Herron, Indianapolis Star, 28 June 2019
  • And some of it (those transcripts, Jack and Neal high and babbling) is unreadable.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Firstly, you may be awoken by birds chirping, a view that looks into a lush forest, and a babbling fountain.
    — Dalya Benor, Travel + Leisure, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The babbling creek alongside that home is an artery that’s repeatedly raged with floodwaters in the past few weeks.
    — Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
  • 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
  • Steve Carell stars as the would-be villain with a heart of gold, Gru, leader of the babbling Minions.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Many letters slam our new Muslim mayor and now a sprinkle of right-wing, pseudo-Christian babbling?
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • For example, if one nestling is given corticosterone, did all its siblings’ babbling increase?
    — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • Schweizer has created a theatrical ensemble that lives in and for the babbling, warbling moment.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Musk seems to have programmed his Tesla navigation system to zoom directly into his own babbling trap.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Cuomo asked sheepishly to more face-covering giggles from Shields, who, not for nothing, noted that she was named after a babbling brook.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 May 2024
  • German researchers discovered a sort of pre-verbal stage in finches—similar to the babbling stage in humans—that leads to their becoming fluent in song.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 5 June 2024
  • Trump, too, has inexplicable lapses of babbling and has fallen asleep at inauspicious moments.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 29 May 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • This indicates that babbling is a widespread and natural developmental process in parrots.
    — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • The 200-acre grounds sported babbling creeks, a deer park, an aquarium, stables, mock Roman ruins and a private telegraph system. Cooke had founded the first investment bank in the United States, Jay Cooke & Company, a decade earlier.
    — Mickey Butts, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023

babbling

2 of 2 adjective
  • Her laughter was said to sound like a babbling brook.
    — Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
  • No traffic noise, no ringing cell phones, no babbling newscasts.
    — Mark Rozzo, Town & Country, 11 Feb. 2019
  • The two share a booth—and a babbling conversation—over breakfast in the heartwarming ad.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 20 June 2019
  • 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
  • The Mad Monarch of Mar-a-Lago is ridiculed worldwide as the babbling fool and face of Satan whose venom is deadly and far-reaching.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 15 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Tucked between Sedona's iconic red sandstone cliffs and the babbling Oak Creek, L’Auberge de Sedona has long been considered one of Arizona's most inviting retreats.
    — Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2025

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