How to Use warble in a Sentence

warble

1 of 2 noun

• The guitar warbles and floods, the vocals pop and echo, the snare shuffles and snaps.
  — Alex Suskind, Vulture, 6 June 2024
• There, neither a boulevard stroll nor a chanteuse warble nor a swig of absinthe was to be had.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 17 Aug. 2024
• There are whistles and toe taps and yowls and warbles and percussion produced by acrylic nails.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• Her voice, which can transform from a warble to a howl in an instant, skates along the gentle thrum of guitars and synths.
  — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2021
• The one on the right warbles on a flute, the middle strums a guitar and the one on the left slowly taps away on a tambourine.
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 14 Sep. 2024
• Which makes sense, as its odd-cylinder warble is a sound that any human could impersonate.
  — Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 26 Oct. 2021
• His voice — a soft warble — is both bold and seductive, enlivening the chill lava-lamp vibes conveyed in his songs.
  — Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2022
• 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
• Chase’s lines climbed and dipped, gaining altitude and thinning in the light before diving down into gnarly warbles and shudders.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
• Olsen’s voice was higher and wilder then, occasionally slipping into a kind of vaporous warble.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
• While recording the subjects' brainwaves, the researchers played each of them a series of sounds with unexpected changes of tone (a one-time warble in the note).
  — Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2011
• Audrey played an eight-string bass in the intro which broke a string on her first take; luckily, that take was perfect, and its eerie warble is one of my favorite sounds on this record.
  — Daniel Kohn, Spin, 1 Sep. 2023
• Staff spoke softly to keep the animals calm, so the only sounds were the squawks, chirps and warbles of the birds, and the crunching and rustling of animals eating breakfast.
  — Jess McHugh, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
• Songbirds — species such as warbles, sparrows and chickadees — have had declining populations for decades, Blake said.
  — Conocophillips Alaska, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2023
• Speller’s welcoming warble was especially suited to the narrative role of the lyric.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
• The whoosh and warble of the turbo inline-five from the groundbreaking Quattro conjures up peak rally greatness and is a brand-defining classic.
  — Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 5 Oct. 2022
• Her voice is lithe, elastic and effortlessly comic — her weird little flicks, trills and warbles earning delighted giggles from the audience.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
• Lenker’s personal, pastoral songwriting and fragile, down-home warble are always at the center of Big Thief’s music.
  — Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2022
• We were also disappointed by the poor sound quality of the Bose audio system, with the only noticeable bass coming from the warble of the fake engine sound.
  — Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 21 Apr. 2022
• From the blackbirds with red shoulder pads to the murmuration-forming starlings, these birds have plenty to recommend them, including their warbles, chirps, and whistles.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2023
• Vu puts particular emphasis on that last word, wandering up and down the scale in a beautiful warble, adding colorful syllables with each inflection.
  — Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 20 Aug. 2021
• By recording and comparing different calls, Ford has found that within a single pod, each call will have a specific acoustic pattern--one call may consist of three warbles with an overall rise in pitch, then an abrupt drop-off at the end.
  — Glen Martin, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
• Most of the cast, particularly Messing, who delivers an awkward caricature of a teen and then the exaggerated hand-wringing and dithering warble of an old woman, struggle in the sunrise and sunset years.
  — New York Times, 10 Apr. 2022
• Both engines have layers of character; our favorite attributes are the throat-clearing cackles when lifting off the throttle in the Z06 and the warbles that accompany aggressive upshifts in the GT3.
  — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 5 July 2023
• God Save the Animals contains guitar solos, gothic keyboard riffs, spare and off-key acoustic guitar, warbles, countrified fiddle, at least one very thoughtful love song, and (don’t worry) enough moments that sound like Built to Spill.
  — Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
• Her silky vocals – so perfectly complemented by Nicks’ intense warble – and keyboards added a soft touch to a band initially submerged in blues rock, and helped remodel Fleetwood Mac into a powerhouse pop-rock outfit in the ‘70s and ‘80s.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2022

warble

2 of 2 verb

• Birds were warbling in the trees.
• He warbled his way through the song.
• Abigail’s voice can roar and warble and whine with folksy grit or can climb into the rafters with songbird delicacy.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 3 May 2024
• Rita also sings a variety of jazz standards, and in one early scene, brings a crowd to tears warbling an original tune for her 9-year-old son (Elliott Heffernan).
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
• This is the iconic horror baddie he was meant to play, a deeply unnerving dollmaker who warbles with musical malevolence, confounds the law with his Zodiac-like ciphers, and lives for glam rock and killing sprees.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 11 July 2024
• Her distinctive voice has been Widowspeak’s emblem since the band first emerged, warbled like Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval over CB radio.
  — Linnie Greene, Pitchfork, 10 June 2026
• Unsuspecting heshers who stumble into their set will be greeted with the analog warmth of vintage guitars and organs and Tommy Alexandersson’s warbling baritone.
  — Brad Sanders, Chron, 21 Mar. 2023
• With its myriad references to warbling princesses, cloying theme park animatronics, and lovable talking animals, Shrek was viewed by critics as a giant green middle finger to Katzenberg’s former employer.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2024