babble - use in sentences

Object

  • gurgle: She babbles, gurgles, giggles, sucks on her bottle or dummy and cries when waking up.
  • nonsense: The wine must have addled your brain, Stranger, or else your mind is always like this, making you babble endless nonsense.
  • sound: Joe then started to place his head at the side of mine and make a babbling sound.

Adjective modifier

  • meaningless: Everything else read and sounded like meaningless babble to them.
  • psycho: MATTHEWS: Well, now we get into some psycho babble right up front.
  • inane: Just the thoughts of a sleep deprived student, that may or may not be inane babble!

Modifying Another Word

  • away: There are French people staying here, so I might take the opportunity to babble away in a language I know.
  • just: Anyways, I wanted to babble just a little bit about themes.
  • n't: Don't give one word answers and do n't babble Yes and no answers may make an interviewer think you are not really interested.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • on: Mansell babbles on - cruel, cold, calm executioner.

Preposition: of

  • voice: I don't mean making our voice powerful enough to be heard above the babble of voices in today's world.

Noun used with modifier

  • psycho-annalysis: And now preparing for my psychology paper tomorrow, but figured I need a break from psycho-annalysis babble.
  • techno: P&DR is just ' HR techno babble ' and the University won't actually carry it out fairly.
  • marketing: It is difficult to compare the content management products available because of the widespread use of jargon, buzzwords, and marketing babble.

Preposition: like

  • baby: She can laugh cry or babble just like a real baby.

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