babble
verb (used without object)
to utter sounds or words imperfectly, indistinctly, or without meaning.
had babbled
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past perfectof babble.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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German reports said Arthur E was a diamond trader who had "babbled like a brook" after his arrest.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2023
But she had babbled at Murphy who appeared to listen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2021
Later she heard that on his deathbed her lover had babbled a verse which began on a new note of hope.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Wayland had wakened the old frontiersman, he had babbled inconsequently about the sea.
From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
It was the girl for whose picture he had gambled in the hut at Bekwando—Monty's baby-girl, of whom he had babbled even in death.
From A Millionaire of Yesterday by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
