How To Use Gabble In A Sentence

  • Squeezing her eyes so tightly shut that they looked like senile lips, Mary began to gabble.
  • The cubs who knew me were effusive in their greetings, their claws catching at my clothing as they closed around me, a gabble of voices.
  • Moreover, this would silence once and for all those gabblers who had undertaken to criticise him for what they called his inhumanity in banishing this only son when he was only trying to bring up that child in the way he should go. Kennedy Square
  • 'gabble'; he gets 'beyond drivelling' into something more like The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill
  • He gabbles to everyone in earshot about the lesson, how well it went, what the students said and did, and so on.
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  • I've learned his gabble is usually honey talk but occasionally it can be coercion.
  • Just snatched from the cradle and hastily weaned, they mouth the rules of Priscian and Donatus; while still beardless boys they gabble with childish stammering the Categorics and Peri The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
  • Instead, peddling excuses as earlier clerics quoted psalms, he goes on a gabble about her ‘dignity’ - did the dead dog have a pedigree, do you think?
  • The boy gabbled off the poem as though he neither understood nor enjoyed it.
  • During the trial in the Federal courthouse in DC, the TV trucks had permanent positions on the street, and marked spots for their stand-ups to gabble into their microphones. Pinch me. « Dating Jesus
  • She began to imagine a war of words, to see the Polish words and the English words coming at each other, stalking forward, not sentences, just words, gabble gabble gabble, flung out high and shrill and stalking forward and then grappling with each other. Touched by Evil
  • Its very rapidity leads to some gabbled speaking, and the hurtling style which Boyd adopted for Shakespeare's histories is sometimes ill-suited to a play full of rhetorical excess. Antony and Cleopatra
  • I knew he was trying to distract Will, but the talkative boy took no notice and gabbled on: There are but seven of you in all, and plays I have seen often have a dozen or more parts. The Secret of the Sealed Room
  • Mrs. Spruce had gabbled of it, saying that 'what with jellies an' ices an 'all the things as has to be thought of an' got in ready, 'she was' fair mazed an 'moithered.' God's Good Man
  • You gabble me crazy.
  • Their excited gabble came so fast I was swamped, unable to follow them.
  • “It was a fine summer’s night, and there was not wind enough to fill a sky-sail, and on I went the back-way to the place where we used to meet in the summer-house: but as I was nearing it, I thought I heard two voices: I hove to, and listened. it was a mongrel kind of gabble, between Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund
  • There was a furious gabble of ‘right away milady!’
  • There was some tired bureaucratic gabble - ‘An in-depth process that includes accountability will provide progress.’
  • Shylock's cleverness and intellectual assurance were obscured by funniosities such as a sing-song Potash-and-Perlmutter speech breaking into gabble, finger-counting, and beard-stroking, lying flat in the street and howling. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921
  • I begged, and prayed, and appealed to his pity, but he would pull the book away from me, gabble bits of ballads in my ear as I was struggling with _Effectual Calling_, tip up the form on which I was seated, and, in short, annoy me in twenty different ways. Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood
  • How that old lady did smile and (as she herself laughingly said) "gabble" her delight! Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands
  • They gabbled with Feodor as Georgi drew up two extra chairs, set two places, then withdrew after an elaborate set of good-byes. Venom
  • For the truth of things, and the profit thereof, are found rather among a few folk who are wise and reasonable than among the multitude, where every man cries and gabbles as he likes.
  • Hens and roosters, showing off their gilded feathers, gabble under my window,
  • English - stretched and pummelled by a tireless gabble of journos, admen, rappers, surfers, druggies, cops, criminals, geeks and gurus - carries on growing and dominating the global tongue.
  • As they caught sight of Ah Cho they gabbled among themselves in low voices. THE CHINAGO
  • She was nervous and started to gabble.
  • The message became — gabble retchets yeth wisht hounds he haefde hundes haefod & his loccas waeron ofer gemet side & his eagan scinon swa leohte swa morgensteorra & his teth waeron swa scearpe swa eofores texas A Winter Haunting
  • Hens and roosters, showing off their gilded feathers, gabble under my window,
  • For peers and gints, quaysirs and galleyliers, fresk letties from the say and stale headygabblers, gaingangers and dudder wagoners, pullars off societies and pushers on rothmere’s homes. Finnegans Wake
  • The man gabbled and gestured and spun like a madman. Colin Powell's UN Clown Show
  • I gabbled it in a whisper to Terry and Allison; the stout cleric goggled and Collins's hand twitched again at his lapel. Isabelle
  • Otherwise what are you going to do with the magic, just treat it like a little parlour game for the rest of your life and gabble about it on the net afterwards?
  • A district nurse came, gabbled into her mobile phone inches away from Dan's ear, a doctor, another nurse. Is a dignified death at home too much to ask?
  • Raúl Esparza, cast as a fey mathematician who tries to explain chaos theory to Hannah, makes the mistake of reducing his big speech to unintelligible gabble, while Mr. Crudup is too genial to be convincing as a waspishly malicious academic. When Good Enough Just Isn't Enough
  • The little boy gabble his prayers and jump into bed.
  • It always frustrates me when Ministers come down to the House and gabble through a speech written by someone else when they introduce a bill, and clearly do not have the faintest notion what the bill is doing or what it is about.
  • It was an absolute bullet-like, repetitive gabble.
  • My urge to prove my sanity made me gabble, and my gabbling disproved my claim.
  • Around them bustles Ceicao, an ancient village woman, who cackles and gabbles as she throws sticks and pokes the ashes of the fire, raising cinders like showers of fireworks.
  • -- "It may be redargued," saith he, "by those who have more spleen than brain, that forasmuch as the Archbishop preacheth in English, he will not thereby much edify the Turkish folk, who do altogether hold in a vain gabble of their own. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English
  • It doesn't turn anthropology or the story of human evolution on its head, a piece of science-correspondent gabble I think I heard during my goggle-eyed, gobsmacked, yelping look at yesterday evening's TV news.
  • He gabbled, prattling about platitudes, desperate to get out of there. Greek crisis: The Tory plan is... there isn't one
  • Mary gabbled out her prayers and jumped into bed.
  • The boy gabbled off the poem as though he neither understood nor enjoyed it.
  • Every single person in the auditorium broke into a confused gabble.
  • Their gabble clouded my mind and it was difficult to concentrate on my work.
  • Tom Byam Shaw's Ariel may swing on a trapeze from time to time but his speech – at first strangely elongated, then gabbled – is earthbound and he trips around the stage as if he were an obliging ballet student rather than a sharp-edged sprite. Decade; The Tempest; The Kitchen; Parade – review
  • Gina tends to gabble away when she's excited.
  • Another personality was Harry Hemsley, who had a little boy who spoke in an unintelligible gabble, but was understood perfectly well by his elder sister.
  • Marcello sat on his knee and gabbled excitedly.
  • The boy gabbled off the poem as though he neither understood nor enjoyed it.
  • Take your time and don't gabble!
  • They were very quick and abrupt in their actions, and their speech, in moments of hot discussion over the allotment of the choicer teeth, was truly a gabble. Page 9
  • When I 'read the minutes' I just reach back in my mind and recall what the gabble was the night before -- I've got an awfully good memory. Tunnel In The Sky
  • One of the soldiers gabbled something and pointed at the front door.
  • Gabble, gabble, gabble, gabble, quack, quack, quack and cock a doodle do — Will you scold Betsy Howyes for me? Letter 331
  • Take your time and don't gabble!
  • If he's on the tube we can just mute the gabble and marvel at his wonderful face instead.
  • ‘Not a problem,’ he gabbles, so rattled he's not noticed that the important fields are filled out in pencil.
  • The crazy, steaming city swirled and blared around me, the strange language honked and gabbled.
  • If he's on the tube we can just mute the gabble and marvel at his wonderful face instead.
  • Rubiochico,) "which was fast swamping the sparkling stars, like a bright river flowing over diamonds, when the old gander again set up his gabblement and trumpeted more loudly than before. Tom Cringle's Log
  • We had not wasted words at any time, and on remounting, preserved as profound a silence as if we were on a forlorn hope, even the natives intermitting their ceaseless gabble. The Hawaiian Archipelago
  • And there is absolutely no enthusiasm for Gabble's Labourite logorrhoea either. Politicalbetting.com
  • ‘I love Christmas and not just because it makes me money,’ he gabbles.
  • The boy gabbled off the poem as though he neither understood nor enjoyed it.
  • Nicola gabbled on about her boyfriend for hours.
  • I thought perhaps she had cast some strange glamour upon you to make you gabble so stupidly. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
  • ‘Now it's hugely more exciting than the days of cardboard,’ he gabbled.

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