babble
verb (used without object)
to utter sounds or words imperfectly, indistinctly, or without meaning.
are babbling
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present progressiveof babble.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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They listen patiently, even when they don’t understand what you are babbling about.
From Forbes ● Aug. 7, 2014
Can it be possible that they know what they are babbling?
From St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878 by Various
Halcyons, who by the ever-rippling Waves of the sea are babbling, Dewing your plumes with the drops that fall From wings in the salt spray dabbling.
From The Frogs by Aristophanes
The child is philosophising, while philosophers, excited by wine or perhaps by female society, are babbling like children.
From Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I do not believe it," said Bevis; "you are babbling, Brook.
From Wood Magic A Fable by Richard Jefferies
