How to Use burble in a Sentence

burble

1 of 2 verb
  • The baby burbled happily in her crib.
  • At some point, while the rice is still burbling away, the timer for the chicken goes off.
    Amiel Stanek, Bon Appetit, 9 Jan. 2018
  • From the widening gash, molten rock burbled and splashed, then shot dozens of feet in the air.
    Author: Amy B Wang, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2018
  • Above, the tall spruce tossed in the wind; below, the current burbled around my knees.
    John Lahr, Esquire, 16 June 2016
  • Leaks formed in that gap, with some of the water burbling up into the river.
    Washington Post, 20 June 2018
  • In her right ear, the news broadcast burbled its comforting hum.
    Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 8 Dec. 2018
  • Yellow, orange, and red leaves pop with color as burbling brooks flow across the floor.
    Dave Parfitt, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Against the wall near the burbling koi pond, a laurel hedge stands in for the nonexistent lawn.
    Catherine Romano, WSJ, 12 July 2019
  • Use one to lift the dough from its mixing bowl and the second to push the dough onto the burbling stew.
    Sheri Castle, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
  • There is a tabletop fountain burbling in the corner, which is a little on the nose.
    Brian Braiker, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
  • White House aides burbled that these remarks would play well to The Base.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Student debt has been burbling among Democrats as an election year issue for some time.
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 30 June 2019
  • In the weeks leading up to opening night, discourse burbled along healthily.
    Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Hit the start button and enjoy the refined, burbling exhaust note.
    By Brian Melton, star-telegram, 2 Aug. 2017
  • Gardens are found throughout the city, and none is complete without a burbling fountain.
    Fiona Mozley, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Late last year, a red badge burbled to the surface next to millions of iPhone users’ Settings apps.
    John Herrman, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
  • This is a narrow path full of greenery, shaded by oak trees, with a burbling creek keeping you company.
    Karin Klein, Orange County Register, 3 Apr. 2017
  • The coops are adjacent to a patch of artificial grass and a burbling fountain.
    Henry Alford, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2018
  • All around us mudpots burbled and columns of steam shot skyward, powered by the heat of nascent volcanoes.
    Peter Kaminsky, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2018
  • On this date, her poems and drawings describe a burbling stream of daisies, the naked vine, a cascade of almond blossoms.
    Angelica Calabrese, Longreads, 7 July 2026
  • Others walked around Adi’s tomb, chanting; holy water burbled up from deep within the mountain.
    Tim Neville, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2018
  • The pressure causes water to burble at the surface of land inside the levee, and may spout when met with enough water and force.
    Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 23 Dec. 2025
  • On the road, its Performance Blue paint is as in your face as its popping and burbling active exhaust.
    Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 30 Mar. 2020
  • High in the Himalaya, near the base of the Gangotri glacier, water burbles along a narrow river.
    National Geographic, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Beyond, expect views of the city’s burbling river, best enjoyed from the emerald-green swimming pool, cocktail in hand.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Next to them, close to the house is another dry riverbed with a burbling fountain at the head and a miniature bridge still large enough to walk over toward the bottom.
    Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2026
  • Lush cedars and eucalyptus sway above us lazily, while water burbles from the mouths of fish and ancient Roman gods.
    Hazlitt, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The Urus' engine burbles deeply when idling, and absolutely howls under full throttle.
    Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Most games, the noise burbles in the background, obscured by the team’s propulsive offense and smothering starting pitching.
    Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 15 June 2019
  • 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

burble

2 of 2 noun
  • Leslie Run burbles along the bottom of the hill where the Murphys live.
    Emily Cochrane, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Is there music more beautiful to the ears, while driving, than the burble coming from the exhaust pipes?
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Whatever the season — from rainy spring to hot, dry summer — the brook provides a constant burble.
    Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2020
  • Ford adds drama with a synthetic soundtrack of a big-engine burble that's been smoothed into a warble.
    Eric Tingwall, Car and Driver, 7 July 2021
  • Our glacial springs burble with the torpor and consistency of a melting pint of Phish Food ice cream.
    Emma Brewer, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Brooklyn has learned to communicate in burbles over the trach tube in her throat, flapping her hands to greet visitors.
    Caroline Chen / Bloomberg, Time, 9 Jan. 2018
  • There is still a muted eight-cylinder burble, but one that only raises its voice toward the far reaches of the gas pedal's long travel.
    Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Fiber optics, however, provided a dense line of points from all along their length, helping scientists spot the small burbles.
    Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 June 2023
  • All night long, the soundtrack of existence was the burble and splash of Hat Creek outside my window, but come dawn the birds took over.
    Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The burble of her voice and that of the Volkswagen's engine also harmonized in a strangely soothing way.
    Steve King, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Feb. 2020
  • This structure is what gives bread dough the strength and elasticity to capture all the bubbles and burbles produced by yeast in order to grow fluffy, chewy, and light when baked.
    Sohla El-Waylly, Bon Appétit, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Our bandleader has a wayfaring meander that dances in percussive bursts while his fellow players burble, simmer and sparkle.
    Christopher R. Weingarten, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Tchaikovsky’s second movement depicts a waterfall in sonic burbles and cascades worthy of Berlioz.
    Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 28 Feb. 2020
  • The sporty coupe burbles, crackles and pops with each downshift, a felicitous experience for driver and passenger alike.
    Morgan Korn, ABC News, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Now new research finds the fizz of a thawing glacier can be distinguished from the burble of a softening iceberg, and that these telltale sounds are more intense in places where ice is melting faster.
    Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 29 May 2018
  • What weird burble in the zeitgeist has somehow manifested in lines of identical Chalamets?
    Aja Romano, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • This was supposed to be a getaway with nothing to distract us but the burble of the water, the wind in the trees, a stack of novels and a 1,000-piece puzzle.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2019
  • The music drones and burbles, tinkles and undulates, taking its time and lingering over instrumental stretches.
    New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The soundtrack of Niu Shack consists of the gentle swoosh of leaves and the burble of the nearby river, which forms a pool-like swimming hole just underneath the property.
    Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 24 Mar. 2024
  • There are several causes, but most commonly air pockets are the culprit, bubbles in between the tomatoes, that burble up as the contents reach 220 degrees.
    sacbee, 29 Aug. 2017
  • The drag setting requires raised voices for conversation, while normal and sport settings recede to the background burble V8 fans will recognize.
    Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The music drones and burbles, tinkles and undulates, taking its time and lingering over instrumental stretches as if people are still willing to experience a whole album from start to finish.
    Jon Pareles, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Being a habitat requires a water source too, so Williams installed a fountain against the house, half hidden by pots of reeds and the long graceful branches of a Waverly sage, its constant burble a soothing garden song.
    Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2022
  • If anything, this little burble of content suggests that no political faction’s stranglehold on storytelling is absolute or unchallengeable.
    Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 29 Apr. 2020
  • These sorts of transmissions often feel their best when the gas pedal is pressed hard, but the GT500 is perfectly happy to amble along with the engine making a comforting burble from under the hood.
    Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 29 Oct. 2019
  • The term, ‘problematic,’ which the WRU uses like part of a ritualistic formulae, is postgraduate humanities burble, the hocus-pocus gesture of a shallow, paraprofessional idiom that avoids candor.
    Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Luckily, the electric powertrain—which utilizes GM's Ultium battery technology—eliminates the traditional burble of a gasoline engine, allowing engineers to focus on dampening other noises instead.
    Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 22 July 2022

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