gurgle
verb (used without object)
to flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current.
gurgles
Example Sentences
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When he meets adults he stares at them and takes them in, then kindly smiles and gurgles and lets them pat him, ruffle his hair, and take his face in their hands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025
No cries or gurgles, the unnerving silence in the room is only broken by the high-pitched beeps of a pulse rate monitor.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2024
On a visit to a Texas ostrich farm, the researchers recorded 11 types of calls, ranging from high frequency peeps and gurgles in baby ostriches to low frequency boos and booms in adult males.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024
They spent the night in cabins with no doors or windows, the better to let nighttime mountain breezes and the gurgles of the river lull them to sleep.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
From the ranks of the crawling babies came little squeals of excitement, gurgles and twitterings of pleasure.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
