Example Sentences

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Birds sing and the Lukaya River burbles along the valley floor.

From Barron's • Nov. 26, 2025

One line of evidence came from isotope measurements of helium that burbles up in Tibetan springs.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 9, 2024

This is a two-tiered falls, widening as it descends: The water takes a long plunge, crashes into a pool, then burbles back up and falls again.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 28, 2023

And, as the siblings talk and talk, their complex past burbles up.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2021

Emasculated by dams and diversion canals, the lower Colorado burbles indolently from reservoir to reservoir through some of the hottest, starkest country on the continent.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer