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Examples of gurgle in a Sentence
The water gurgled through the pipes.
I was so hungry that you could hear my stomach gurgling.
Recent Examples of gurgle from the Web
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But if emotions were gurgling within, Earnhardt has suppressed them well so far.
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These kids smiled, giggled and then their tubes gurgled to show what’s at stake here.
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The car chortled to life, its 8-liter W-16 engine, inches behind our heads, gurgling smoothly, as Wallace eased the car up the driveway and onto Pacific Coast Highway.
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On the living room floor next to gurgling Illyria, Jamil shows photos of his father with a bullet hole in his head.
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Angel’s Creek gurgles beneath the shouts of playing children there, and a quaint white gazebo offers a view of the barnlike Murphys Library.
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Clarinets gurgle in arpeggios, because that’s what clarinets do.
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Seawater gurgled audibly up through manhole covers and seeped from the grass.
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Yomba Indian Reservation, NevadaLast summer Nevada was so dry that rancher Darryl Brady grabbed a shovel and hacked into a dusty pit, once a lush spring that gurgled onto fields thick with wild hay.
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Origin and Etymology of gurgle
probably imitative
GURGLE Defined for English Language Learners
gurgle
playDefinition of gurgle for English Language Learners
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: to make the quiet sound of water moving over rocks, through a pipe, etc.
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: to make a sound like a liquid boiling or bubbling
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of a baby : to make happy and quiet sounds
GURGLE Defined for Kids
Definition of gurgle for Students
gurgled
;gurgling
1 : to flow in a bubbling current a gurgling stream
2 : to sound like a liquid flowing with a bubbling current
Definition of gurgle for Students
: a sound of or like liquid flowing with a bubbling current
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