Heck, I didn't know "burbling" was a real word until I noticed my spell checker wasn't underlining it. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Dailing: Fish Burbling: How Crazy New Media Terms are Changing the Future of Everything] Reference
Those thus disturbed emitted tiny burbling squeaks. From Wordnik.com. [Mid Flinx]
The burbling, sparkling water rolled o'er its rocky bed. From Wordnik.com. [Guy Reed] Reference
Their conversation is a burbling, unintelligible stream. From Wordnik.com. [Applied Minds Think Remarkably] Reference
The stick is burbling in my hand, I think I feel a stall. From Wordnik.com. [Teterboro Tower] Reference
Fifty tables of 10 were set up around a burbling fountain. From Wordnik.com. [Sonny Mehta, Uneasy King of Knopf] Reference
Might have to buy one of those burbling water fountains. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
The concept of burbling a fish but applied to communication. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Dailing: Fish Burbling: How Crazy New Media Terms are Changing the Future of Everything] Reference
He was making burbling noises that didn't sound like Samnorsk. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
"Well, well, well," the doctor said, in a burbling sort of voice. From Wordnik.com. [Supermind] Reference
Hook up another one right next to it, and now you get a burbling. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2009] Reference
She had a burbling laugh, like stream running over smooth stones. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
Grijpstra slept peacefully, burbling moistly through parted fat lips. From Wordnik.com. [Hard Rain]
Languished and forgotten legislation is burbling up through committees. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Clinton: You Can Keep Your Hat On] Reference
The coughing had a burbling sound to it, as if the old pope's lungs were full of fluid. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Xu Jing parks his Honda Odyssey beside a burbling stream and takes out the fishing rods. From Wordnik.com. [FARMHOUSE FUN: THE CHINESE HIT THE ROAD] Reference
This doesn't stop our narrator burbling that the tablet is "very responsive, very quick". From Wordnik.com. [Is that a real HP tablet running Windows 7? We sincerely hope not] Reference
The gutters of the station were turned into burbling brooks and the grass plot into a morass. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
Buchanan burbling unselfconsciously, "I thought Amos and Andy was a great show -- didn't you?". From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Marino: Sure Race Is an Issue -- But Not for Me] Reference
He is one of the old standard-issue profs, burbling with shopworn pedantries and condescensions. From Wordnik.com. [A Tough Lesson In Sexual Harassment] Reference
Add the tomatoes, curry powder, coconut milk, and water, and bring back up to a burbling simmer. From Wordnik.com. [Elissa Altman: A Curry for Lea] Reference
Think of those 8,570 earmarks as the master to-do list of the burbling swamp of American politics. From Wordnik.com. [What's the Matter With Earmarks?] Reference
He shared an apartment on the Left Bank with a charming and beautiful wife and a burbling baby boy. From Wordnik.com. [Back to School,] Reference
ZAHN: I just wanted to talk about some of the controversy that is burbling up around the edges of this story. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2002] Reference
Infants can be inscrutable, but a visit to www. preventiveoz.org helps clear up some of their burbling mysteries. From Wordnik.com. [What Gurgles Really Mean] Reference
Soft burbling sounds floated down from the ceiling, sounding like bubbles popping to the surface of a quiet pond. From Wordnik.com. [Mid Flinx]
"Just your blessing, we put the announcement in the paper yesterday," she said, burbling away like a happy brook. From Wordnik.com. [All Together Dead]
The moans were now a gobbling, burbling, almost continuous cry as he reached his goal -- a small cabin still intact. From Wordnik.com. [The Defiant Agents] Reference
The path became rugged and difficult, passing through thorny ground, following burbling watercourses of rough stones. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
Hook up another right next to it, and now you get a burbling; that's because of the air not being uniformly dealt with. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2009] Reference
Few people chuckled anymore, that low burbling sound free of cynicism or judgement that ran under the surface of mirth. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Lure]
And I had the further feeling, burbling up from somewhere behind my lungs, that this was a very careful, very private message. From Wordnik.com. [DarklyDreamingDexter]
Mrs. Chattisbourne and her four daughters were already hurrying down the stairs, burbling, “Tossie, dear, thisis a surprise!”. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
If ever the Huskies should win a cup, at least two million people would expect the presentation to be made to a burbling Mrs. Post. From Wordnik.com. [Murder Without Icing]
He writes no tame, insipid books of dairy maids or shepherds 'crooks, of singing birds or burbling streams, or any other worn-out themes. From Wordnik.com. [Rippling Rhymes] Reference
At the Lunch Bucket the plump and pretty proprietor was behind the high counter, smiling as usual, and the baby was burbling in his basket. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Moved A Mountain]
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