How To Use Babble In A Sentence

From up stream came the babble of the brook like dainty laughter.
Hi-tech babble from tech whiz-kids will not make an entrepreneur part with a single euro if the entrepreneur is not convinced of the financial return.
Sure, Loughner babbled about favorite right-wing pet causes and hallucinated that his "enemies" were Democrats, but if his enemies hadn't been Democrats, they would have been other kids at school, or mean bosses at work, or the IRS or any of the other targets that crazy people tend to obsess about. Henry Blodget: Are Wackos With Guns Just a Fact Of Life in America?
A woman is permitted to chat or babble, but speaking in public with authority is still the greatest transgression.
Cheeks burning red she babbled apologies, quickly trying to clean the tunic and the table and the floor with her shirt.

On the surface, it seems the radio babblers have been unceremoniously shushed.
The babble is inane, but its heart is in the right place. Archive 2009-06-01
She stopped her excited babble and grabbed my wrist, dragging me off to math class.
The infant babbled for half an hour.
The studio was filled with the same chattering and babble of languages that I had encountered upon my arrival. No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
There were about a dozen blue-cheeked bee-eaters, a common babbler and the ubiquitous white-cheeked bulbuls.
Eager hints would become rhapsodic proclamations; backstairs whispers would be babbled aloud in the corridors of the complex.
Because the discursive babbler is setting himself some dogmatically rigid guardrails.
It spirals from crisp oration into stream-of-consciousness babble and finally into gibberish.
That's how you know you're totally contented with another person, when you don't need to fill the void with unnecessary babble.
a sudden babble of cheepy voices, and simultaneously Sarah cried: Australia Felix
It is pretty clear that they were to some extent under the influence of pique and irritation when they noticed his deviations from the established faith, and applied to him the epithet of "babbler;" but Paul was not the man to be put down either by irony or insult; and at length it was found necessary to allow him a fair opportunity of explaining his principles. The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution
What we have in Barack Obama is the perfect blending of postmodern Marxism with therapeutic psychobabble into a royal narcissistic mishmosh. Archive 2009-03-01
Then a babble of talk and tension-relieving laughter breaks out.
During his fever he babbled without stopping.
Yes, this is all just history, and therefore of no interest to the chauvinistic babblers who dominate the national dialogue on US airwaves.
Stacey continued to babble on, totally naïve to the fact that she was causing so many eyes to focus on her.
I can wind my horn, though I call not the blast either a recheate or a morte — I can cheer my dogs on the prey, and I can flay and quarter the animal when it is brought down, without using the newfangled jargon of curee, arbor, nombles, and all the babble of the fabulous Sir Ivanhoe
The stream babbled over the pebbles.
Between his babble and having to totter into the bushes every half-mile while the troop tactfully looked the other way, I was in poor trim by the time we reached Nuggur Ford, where they slung me a hammock in a makeshift hospital basha, and a native medical orderly filled me with jalap. Flashman And The Mountain Of Light
He babbled his apologies in a hurry.
You come in here and waste my time by talking security technobabble!
“Self-esteem is, of course, a term in the modern lexicon of psychobabble, and psychobabble is itself the verbal expression of self-absorption without self-examination.” Weekend Edition: 4-3 « A Progressive on the Prairie
The green hills are a-quiver with babblers, bushchats, bulbuls, barbets, crow pheasants, and the laughing thrush of the Palni hills.
He had merely stood there, tall and silent, piercing her with his incessant gaze, until her words had died to a senseless babble.
Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement and asinine affectations. December 7th, 2005
Bind thy puggaree round thy jaw at night, lest thou babble in English in thy sleep," says he at parting. Fiancée
We babble about nation-building where there's no nation to build, just a premedieval mosaic of tribes that hate each other. PrairiePundit
In unison, as a hundred languages choired below them, the imaginary stars and planets lifted into the higher regions of air, sputtering and fading as they caught a sudden wind and scattered, in a babble of fire and voices, over the bay of Istar. The Dark Queen
It's unfair to criticise here or to babble on about the facilities we have back home.
The catacombs, and the lovingly tended graves within, have embalmed the lives and loves of centuries past in a deathly stillness, broken only by the babble of a passing brook.
I try to come up with clever things to say and instead babble inanities. Networking Nightmares «
He babbled the secret to his lover.
Hi Nitin - heh - actually my "mathematical" theorem was just a joke, authentic-sounding mathematical babble. Toward a unified theory of social networks
“Self-esteem is, of course, a term in the modern lexicon of psychobabble, and psychobabble is itself the verbal expression of self-absorption without self-examination.” Weekend Edition: 4-3 « A Progressive on the Prairie
He babbled the secret out to his friends.
“Self-esteem is, of course, a term in the modern lexicon of psychobabble, and psychobabble is itself the verbal expression of self-absorption without self-examination [3].” A Progressive on the Prairie » Weekend Edition: 4-3 » Print
But why then did not those profound rabbies amongst the Jews, and the Stoicks and Epicureans (those oracles of reason) amongst the philosophers, baffle and refel these babblers, and so dashing their absurd doctrine in its first rise, prevent its spreading, by a mature and thorough confutation? Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
In 2006 the case was thrown out by California's supreme court, which ruled that this kind of freewheeling babble, albeit offensive and embarrassing when circulated in court documents, was an entirely essential element of the "creative workplace" required to make the show – a show that, in case you needed reminding, was hardly Tramadol Nights in terms of nihilistic edginess. Charlie Brooker: We shouldn't have to feel paranoid about snoops listening in to everything we say
In front of the classroom, her teacher babbled on about how to prove a quadrilateral was a square.
I babbled some nonsense about making an authentic Indian meal, regretting my purchase as she rang it up.
Besides being a routine time travel episode, it's also a ‘technobabble’ episode, relying on made-up science and gadgetry to move the plot achingly along.
They could hear a loud babble of voices coming from the crowded bar.
There's some astonishing imagination at work here, and when the big central concept is revealed, near the end, it makes sense and is convincing rather than being empty technobabble.
You can tell from my section alone that I'm a complete babbler.
Um, well if I'm decipher that pile of babble correctly… are you offering me a job?
She babbled the secret out to her boyfriend.
All this may turn out to be mere psychobabble, which is what the Bush crowd dismissively concluded about Oliver Stone's film. ‘Night, Not-So-Sweet Prince
On top of it all, while these fellows babble about the future, they babble about what's going to happen between 2004 and 2008: They're silly babblers!
She babbled her thanks in a great hurry.
There was a moment of silence from the others, then a babble that sounded like a catfight in a blender, some directing questions and demands at me in a torrent I couldn't follow.
It is rare that I babble this effusively and uncritically about a movie.
I’ll bet you could hold stock in Kleenex for the amount of boxes you go through each time you hear his voice babble on about farting. David Lee Roth: Amtrak FM « BuzzMachine
As the happy couple took their places there was a stir and a rising babble behind them.
A few years ago, some smarty-pants college professor fooled a bunch of stupid college professors, by publishing a bunch of PC-babble gibberish (quite literally, gibberish) and getting it praised by his colleagues.
If you set a tape recorder running at a noisy party you would most likely hear something resembling a confused babble.
However, there are no babblers, only two sylvine warblers, and just one bulbul species. Nicobar Islands rain forests
Birds present include the bulbuls, babblers, barbets, kingfishers, shamas, drongos, pigeons, woodpeckers and tailorbirds.
Instead, we are offered a tiny tale filled with comical technobabble.
Unfortunately, in this reviewer's estimation, it is a flawed one: an attempted blend of evolutionary theory as the basis for psychology and implausible Freudian psychobabble.
The outcome of her babble is either incoherent or a blatant lie. McCain campaign adviser pushes back on Palin book
This started with a big yawn: Bush saying 'we will not waver' in its support of Iraq's new and fragile democracy ', which is just more babble from the Prez, same crap we've heard before, and about as effective as anything else he's babbled. Unintentional Iraq Funneez
Ten gazillion questions that I'd like to hear posed and answered, and they babble on about our ‘go-it-alone’ policy.
Their group burst into an excited babble. Times, Sunday Times
Already a loud babble of conversation spilled into the hall, overlaying the mellow sounds of Jett's last album. DEAD BEAT
The original novel caught the ingenuous babble of its protagonist, naively recording the happy circumstances of her household as her master closed in on her.
A great babblement went across the open space — a babblement amidst which the gongs of the trams, ploughing their obstinate way through the mass, rose like red poppies amidst corn. The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
There was a twist in the corridor they were approaching, and a distant babble of voices lifted in cheery shouts, loud demands, drunken slurs.
In the darkness, a lunatic warbled nonsense and a hungry madman babbled on about food.
Sitting over cakes and coffee, surrounded by the babble of a hundred excited voices waiting to go to a show, David Lan - a man of almost Zen-like relaxation and nervelessness - was not at all worried about the production that was about to premiere that night.
Elaine did not seem to hear Lynette, as she continued to babble on about Sir Lancelot.
Philosophy, one of the poets says, is but ‘a clamorous hound, baying at her master’; the philosopher, says another, is ‘great’ only ‘in the vain babblements of fools’.
The prisoner babbled out his guilt.
All of this technobabble will cease very shortly.
He ate a good dinner of maccaroni, rice, squash, and bread; and I hope his mother will be here before night, to receive him from my hands in perfect order, and to be delighted with the babble which, for nearly three weeks past, has run like a brook through all my thoughts. Commonplace: Father's Day, Sweet and Sour
Canons who give expression to this kind of babblement must expect what they get in the way of responses. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911
The house is plain, simple, and inconveniently small; but doors and walls are great luxuries, and you cannot imagine how pleasing the ways of a refined European household are after the eternal babblement and indecorum of the Japanese. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
He babbled his thanks in a great hurry.
During her high fever,the patient babbled of going back home.
She babbled on about her dead son.
As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least wit are the greatest babblers.
The Pomatorhinini include two groups of Asian babblers, scimitar babblers and wren babblers.
Lilatte shoved the pillow over her head, trying to drown out Honey's endless babble.
Didn't he babble the same gobbledygook a decade ago when he vied for the job?
On day one of the school year, I sat there in a state of panic and they babbled on to the teacher with rapid accuracy.
I saw a flock of common babblers, a migrant spotted flycatcher and my final new bird of the day an isabelline wheatear.
Can the babble of field guides, floras, faunas, ID keys, and monographs be coordinated (or, at least, networked)?
Damned uncomfortable, too, but something told me grateful babblement wouldn't be in order, so I said as steadily as I could: Fiancée
The author aims to provide readers with a ‘profound psychological insight’ into the life of Bill Clinton but ends up spouting Freudian psychobabble.
Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
And then he looked into my eyes and babbled something, and pointed with his little fingers at my pipes.
I scream, howl and babble in nonsense languages when on the edge of sleep.
And I'll bet you babbled to the cops about how your brother didn't really mean to do anything wrong.
During her high fever,the patient babbled of going back home.
Shrike babblers were originally described as shrikes, because of their hooked bill, but have been subsequently placed among babblers.
Family Common Name Species Timaliidae Rufous babbler Turdoides subrufus Pycnonotidae Yellow-throated bulbul Pycnonotus xantholaemus An asterisk signifies that the species 'range is limited to this ecoregion. South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests
I can flay and quarter the animal when it is brought down, without using the newfangled jargon of 'curee, arbor, nombles', and all the babble of the fabulous Sir Tristrem. Ivanhoe
Managers must steer a middle course between political correctness and political babble.
Very few successful players babble on about how great they are.
It is the only locality in the country for striped buttonquail Turnix sylvatica, bristled grass warbler Chaetornis striatus andslender-billed babbler Turdoides longirostris. Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal
I am sick of these women and their right win babble talk. Palin, Bachmann rally conservatives
He continued to babble on about how it was all my fault, but I didn't pay much attention to him.
Every second word of his babble was "magnifique!" or "superbe!" or "merveilleux!" and once even "top-hole, I declare!", and I couldn't deny that it was. Watershed
Plumage characters suggest that the Abyssinian catbird is a babbler whose nearest relative may be the bush blackcap, Lioptilus nigricapillus, found in the thickets and forests of eastern South Africa. Mystery bird: Ethiopian catbird, Parophasma galinieri
The pervasive pink petals of the cherry blossom trees flutter to the ground like the soft powder of a mountain peak, while the babble of the bubbling brook pervades the air.
In it I write Dr. Phyl, Oprey's favorite tele-psychobabbler, analyzes Heathcliff and Cathy. Jane Austen's World
These people babble on about how the characters in the novel were more fully developed or how the original story line was more meaningful.
The clearing of undergrowth for trek paths and human interference had badly affected the thrushes, babblers, warblers and bulbuls in this region.
He was staring up into her eyes, in much the same way as a doe-eyed puppy would gaze at its owner, while she softly babbled away to him in an eastern European tongue.
When I went down to visit her we spoke in the babble that sounded to other people like a language.
All of them babble away, telling you their stories, as you climb the stairs and examine the rooms. Times, Sunday Times
Shaheed was conscious, despite bisection, and pointed up, 'Take me up there ... so I carried what was now only half a boy (and therefore reasonably light) up narrow spiral stairs to the heights of that cool white minaret, where Shaheed babbled ... the loudspeaker system was activated, and afterwards people would never forget how a mosque had screamed out the terrible agony of war. G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers
Andy and I never stirred from our seats the entire while, and just found random topics, random items, and random inspirations for our shameless babble.
It came from a zeitgeisty insight about the nature of the modern manager, trapped in a world of failure and management babble. Times, Sunday Times
That night, he and his Theresa put aside their lovers’ babblement for dialogue of a less agreeable nature.
Named Bugun liocichla, the small bird is described as a type of babbler, a diverse family of birds that usually live in tropical forests.
They are accompanied by a motley bunch of red-vented bulbuls and jungle babblers.
This is the babble of many tongues as they are simultaneously translated in the glass towers in the stone city.
Not only are human rights (as decided by the legal babblers) to be elevated over all other political principles, but also they can be collective, and in their assertion actually extinguish individual human rights.
Over the thought of the babblement and the scenes of the evening, arose in my mind one question touching upon the final law of being, for which I would seek answer from this sage.
But the dead only fed the living and each morning when the people woke it was to the scraping and beating of wings, the murmurous susurration, the awful cooing babble, and the sight, to those who still possessed intact windows, of the curious and gentle faces of those creatures. Excerpt: The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
It was later in the night when his father finally arrived home as his youngest sister babbled out all to his father.
Numerous lapses in continuity and story logic - not to mention the constant flood of technobabble - also hampered numerous episodes.
A confused babble of voices rose over the hubbub.
In the heart of this technological maze sat two men, absorbed in technobabble.
The infant babbled for half an hour.
A spontaneous cheer went round the ship, followed by a babble of talk as everyone relaxed.
Biologists have recognized eleven endemic subspecies of babblers there as well.
Furthermore, a good chunk of his theory is untestable metaphysics, psychobabble and gobbledygook.
(Old Play), ‘hoddy-doddy’ (Ben Jonson); while of alliterative might be instanced these: ‘skimble-skamble’, ‘bibble-babble’ (both in English Past and Present
I saw a flock of common babblers, a migrant spotted flycatcher and my final new bird of the day an isabelline wheatear.
Self-esteem is, of course, a term in the modern lexicon of psychobabble, and psychobabble is itself the verbal expression of self-absorption without self-examination. ProWomanProLife » 2010 » March
They babble on about the supposed benefits of EU membership as if this referendum was about whether we should remain in the EU or withdraw from it.
I babbled something - I was obviously clueless but well-meaning - and he was gracious, then he left.
In fact, I don't think he even heard me, although he was barely 20 yards away and there was no other sound but the babble of the beck.
All of them babble away, telling you their stories, as you climb the stairs and examine the rooms. Times, Sunday Times
Er, hello, viewers," he babbled.
For over an hour he jabbered, babbled, screamed and ranted, never completing a full sentence.
Those babble of "affinities" who know little, and care less, about the long and arduous ascent up which mankind has toiled, in the effort to attain to civilization. A Handbook of Ethical Theory
As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least wit are the greatest babblers.
Their group burst into an excited babble. Times, Sunday Times
Instead, American viewers will have to strain to make out whole words from the constant babble of wild sound and West Indian accents.
The first one is a shrike babbler genus (Pteruthius).
In the silence of the grove, she heard the pleasant babble of the stream, except that it was no longer a quiet sloshing.
The time has come to stop listening to the excuses for such behavior generated by its socio- and psychobabbler apologists. June 29th, 2003
It's as unintelligible a piece of artspeak and psychobabble as I have ever stumbled through, and a dictionary is not supplied.
Oh, those new apartments are really neat," the girl babbled on.
He babbled about giving some to charity, investing some, donating more to charity, and something else.
Destroy dem Trufers ... (twufers, twofers) Trufer: The word "trufer" is used as a pejorative to describe 9/11 conspiracy loons, also known as truther (s), because they love to parade around with stupid chants and piss people off with their psycho babble. WN.com - Business News
I was close, thinking that it would open and the Doctor would come out of it, meeting himself and causing some sort of space time ka-blooey thingamagig. damn, my technobabble is so good I could write for the show 'Doctor Who' recap: Thinking outside the (pandorica) box | EW.com
During her high fever,the patient babbled of going back home.
Sometimes it's better to trust your core beliefs rather than rely on the hyperbolized psychobabble that permeates much of society today. David Baldacci talks about 'Last Man Standing'
As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least wit are the greatest babblers.
The thing that I really heard was ‘Let's not louse it up with a lot of psychobabble.’
We are babblers, when we limit our use of language to utilitarian ends, when we make it serviceable to the projects through which we sidestep our anxiety.
Wilkins has inadvertently struck upon a deeper problem than straw men and psychobabble.
She'd become addicted to therapies, psychoanalytic jargon and psychobabble, in place of religion perhaps. THE TATTOOED GIRL
Surprisingly, the show actually manages to make that entire plot comprehensible - and free from the usual expository technobabble that drags down many of its kin.
In my long career as a tele-psychobabbler, I must say that I encounter an assortment of juvenile behaviors among my featured guests, but few possess even 1 / 10th of Heathcliff's charged and emotionally unhealthy obsessions. Jane Austen's World
They even psychobabble together: "We achieved what I call gestalt," says Gore. Friends For Now
The sounds coming from the workshops combine with the babble of the stream to create an authentic atmosphere of the settlement of old.
Sam can't even muster the chutzpah to blast back at a heckler with the bile we know he can spit, instead muttering some lame babble.
I can't listen to his constant babble.
Sherrie continued to babble on and it didn't take too long before Al realised too that he had been had.
She had also said many other things, but to Mary it had seemed like insensible babble.
She continued to babble on about their eternal bond as soul mates, and Robby knew he had to tell her the truth.
In my study of the wholly babble, I think people have it wrong. the gawd described in the babble is hateful, vindictive, and petulant. Think Progress » Bachmann Suggests Critics Of Health Care Reform Will Be Put On A ‘List’ And Denied Treatment
As with the other pseudosciences listed above, even educated, intelligent people get taken in by the convincing technobabble used to promote it, but careful testing and analysis soon reveal the flaws.
And, in conclusion, I feel compelled to point out that Dr. Phil, everybody's favourite TV psychobabbler, always says: "If Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy". Oh, the pressure! Oh, the guilt!
My mother continued to babble on but I paid no attention.
Oh, by the way, excuse me for engaging in what you would call psychobabble, but what I would call stating my feelings the best way I know how. Characters in a Play
An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers. Plato
Had he, on their command, babbled out everything he knew?
Wright, studying babblers at the same site over a three year period, found that larger groups produced more fledglings.
In plants, a babble of water and small molecules flows through the plasmodesmata between cells.
The Asian ‘nonbabbler’ group is the shrike babblers, genus Pteruthius (two of five species studied), which are placed among the outgroups in all analyses.
I stray from the purpose of our trip: birds, which were no less alluring than all the scenes mentioned above, with names such as coucals, laughingthrushes, babblers, and junglefowl.
The whole “unfairness of a competent military force” routine psychobabble is presently being used on Israel, and the US is now getting the same treatment. The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare and the Harvard National Security Conference
He took my face in his hands and kissed me, silencing my endless stream of mindless babble.
All of this babblement makes this a delightful read-aloud, both for the listener, and for the adult reader who can have fun with the twitch-tickling wordplay.
However, I stray from the purpose of our trip: birds, which were no less alluring than all the scenes mentioned above, with names such as leafbirds, bulbuls, coucals, laughingthrushes, babblers, sunbirds and junglefowl.
These [Bugun liocichla] babblers actually don't go for pure forest.
I was enthusing to an old friend about this vibrant new Edinburgh I'd found - the packed cafe terraces, the babble of foreign tongues, the cosmopolitan atmosphere.
Some said maybe he was Swedish, but his incomprehensible babble was little help in discovering his identity.
It's a far greater thing to sit in a witness box under the tongue lashing of a ‘wig’ than to babble a complaint to a Garda in the heat of the moment.
But in Edinburgh all manner of loud bells join, or rather disjoin, in one swelling, brutal babblement of noise. Edinburgh Picturesque Notes
We know too that before children use mature speech, they coo and babble, and then use holophrases and telegraphic sentences.
One of the film's chief flaws is its reliance on gadgets and technobabble over real action.
It tells us something about the nature of evil in our society, but it's not about technobabble. Times, Sunday Times
David Brooks proves that right-wing psycho-babble is just as insipid and banal as any other kind. Babbling Brooks
But within her apparent babble she covers all the problems that have preoccupied philosophers since the Greeks. Times, Sunday Times
The more that the future science is swathed in techno-babble the less I tend to like it and the less real it feels, which is why Star Trek (post original series) irritates me immensely. MIND MELD: What Are The Most Realistic (and the Most Ridiculous) Uses of Science in SciFi Film and TV?
The studio was filled with the same chattering and babble of languages that I had encountered upon my arrival. No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
In the background he could hear the voices of the passengers asking the same question in a babble of noise.
The close relationship between Sylvia and babblers leads to the nomenclatural problem of naming the babbler and warbler families.

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