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
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
"Come, come," called Gud, shaking him by the shoulder, "you are babbling, speak up, what happened?"
From The Book of Gud by Harold Hersey
A hundred hearts beat placidly on, Unwitting they that their warder's gone; A hundred lips are babbling blithe, Some seconds hence they in pain may writhe.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, October 4, 1890 by Various
The child is philosophising, while philosophers, excited by wine or perhaps by female society, are babbling like children.
From Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
