Verb
The baby burbled happily in her crib. Noun
the burble of babies can be so endearing
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Verb
This Mediterranean hole-in-the-wall on 10th Avenue South has been feeding Birmingham’s night owls for years – small inside, with a courtyard out back where the fountain burbles alongside your late-night conversation.—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026 How many illnesses, how many businesses will suffer, how many fish and animals lost, as the burbling witch’s brew rolls, slowly, to the ocean?—Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 21 Feb. 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