Verb
The baby burbled happily in her crib. Noun
the burble of babies can be so endearing
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Verb
Every texture is an independent agent with its own membrane in the mix; percussion rubs and scrapes against your attention, while mutating synth patches burble in the periphery.—H.d. Angel, Pitchfork, 16 June 2026 There is a tabletop fountain burbling in the corner, which is a little on the nose.—Brian Braiker, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
Noun
The Web is for unvarnished interactions, long rants and video burbles and buffering.—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 18 July 2025 Andrew Carnegie’s spring burbles on more than a century later.—Jeff Suess, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for burble