Thesaurus results for WARBLE

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noun

ˈwȯr-bəl

as in melody

a rhythmic series of musical tones arranged to give a pleasing effect whistled a cheerful warble as he strolled down the street

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verb

as in to trill

to sing with the alternation of two musical tones the skylark warbled prettily outside our window

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Noun

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 During a walk through the Huntington Botanical Gardens with her mother one morning, Brenda Ramirez was alarmed by the sudden squawks, warbles, and screeches of troops of parrots flying overhead at great speed in tight, precise formations. —

Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2024

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The stereotype of large women in horned helmets warbling silly nothings comes largely from the period when American operagoers had lost the language skills that our great-grandparents had, either as European immigrants or European-admiring, upper-class swells. —

Nicholas Gallagher, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024 On Thursday, after 11 p.m., as lights warbled on the dark port water, police officers with masks loaded the accused onto vehicles and drove them to jail. —

Niki Kitsantonis, New York Times, 16 June 2023 See all Example Sentences for warble

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