gurgle
verb (used without object)
to flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current.
gurgled
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past participleof gurgle.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof gurgle.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
gurgleverb (used without object)to flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current.
Example Sentences
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One-year-old Dilesh gurgled happily, playing with others who work there, while Netam answered questions from Poyam: “What will the doctor ask me? Do I need documents? Can my husband come to visit me?”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2022
“We did think a lot about that. But it was this truly magical bubble that gurgled up.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2020
I’m sure the spicy red snapper we devoured at the beachfront restaurant didn’t help either, so my stomach gurgled and flipped all night in a mild case of “Bali belly.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2020
In a dull and childless marriage to “a bastard of the standard-issue variety,” she is biding her time at Goode’s, her life “slipping away with the rinsing water as it gurgled down the plughole.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2020
Miss Briggs gurgled with pleasure and kissed the child’s satin pink cheek.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
