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

The child is philosophising, while philosophers, excited by wine or perhaps by female society, are babbling like children.

From Emile by Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Can it be possible that they know what they are babbling?

From St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878 by Various

"Come, come," called Gud, shaking him by the shoulder, "you are babbling, speak up, what happened?"

From The Book of Gud by Hersey, Harold

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