How to Use babble in a Sentence
babble
verb- He'll babble on about sports all night if you let him.
- Her cousins were babbling in an unfamiliar dialect.
- Pay no attention to her. She's just babbling.
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The twins like to babble and laugh with each other before falling asleep.
—Suzy Khimm, NBC news, 20 Dec. 2023
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Let’s hope Merkel is right, and that Trump is merely babbling.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2017
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Our brooks will babble in the courts, Seeking damages for torts.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022
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Our brooks will babble in the courts, Seeking damages for torts.
—Alex Traub, New York Times, 28 May 2021
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Kids and adults of all ages are invited to dip their hands and toes into our babbling stream.
—charlotteobserver, 29 May 2017
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There's one spot on Richard's land where the Guadalupe slows to a babbling brook at the base of a tree.
—Bo Evans, CBS News, 2 July 2026
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Now more than 7 months old, Kora giggles, babbles, sits and rolls over.
—The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 29 Apr. 2018
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Babies babble and make faces and gestures, and the people who love them respond in kind.
—Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
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Babies babble and make faces and gestures, and the people who love them respond in kind.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 3 July 2024
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The bomb was meant to impress and would usually be met with wide eyes, drooling, and babbling.
—Time, 21 Aug. 2023
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My gurgling was so close to babbling that nobody suspected a thing.
—Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
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Pham starts out witchy and crazy, skipping around in a hunched position and babbling nonsense.
—Katherine Schloss, Orange County Register, 10 Mar. 2017
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Weddings are held on the bank of a babbling creek or in the main lodge, where dinners and receptions take place.
—Kelsy Chauvin, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Nov. 2023
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So 90 percent of my life off-camera is babbling nonsense, right?
—Fox News, 11 Sep. 2018
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Aside from those key words, your child’s speech at 12 months will mostly be limited to babbling sounds.
—Maureen Ryan, Parents, 24 July 2024
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Better yet, spend the night at a local inn, which is likely snuggled up to a babbling brook or farmstead.
—Kaitlyn Wylde, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2018
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Toward the end of the conversation Kingston calms down, babbles some more and laughs.
—Amir Vera, CNN, 7 June 2019
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The place is bustling with tourists babbling in various languages, different shades of burnt.
—BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2019
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Guests walk by a babbling water feature on their way to the entrance of the circular building.
—Brieanna J. Frank, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
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So there’s a lot of incidental noise on the record of babbling babies and dogs shaking their collar and things like that.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 12 July 2024
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From rushing mountain streams to babbling creeks and the forks of the Tug River, this bringer of life is all around.
—Sara Sidner, CNN, 25 Mar. 2023
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Kingston then points an open hand to the TV and babbles some more as if to hypothesize on the next season.
—Amir Vera, CNN, 7 June 2019
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When a child babbles and a parent reacts gleefully, the child learns to keep talking and exploring.
—Jenny Anderson, Time, 8 Aug. 2023
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This stunning 215-foot-tall limestone arch was carved over many years by babbling Cedar Creek.
—Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2024
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This stunning 215-foot-tall limestone arch was carved over many years by babbling Cedar Creek.
—Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 2 Feb. 2025
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The teller babbles compulsively about past robberies, spilling details in a rush.
—Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2026
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In the clip, Sidibe can be heard teaching her children how to sing as the twins babble along in their little seats with their names printed on the front.
—Emma Aerin Becker, People.com, 26 Dec. 2024
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