babble
verb (used without object)
to utter sounds or words imperfectly, indistinctly, or without meaning.
is babbling
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present progressiveof babble (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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“If the federal registration of a trademark makes the mark government speech, the federal government is babbling prodigiously and incoherently. It is saying many unseemly things. It is expressing contradictory views.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2021
He is babbling a lot by doing vowel sounds like ooh, eeh, awws and “talking to us,” but no “mama” or “dada” yet.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2020
“Some of this is heightened awareness because everyone is babbling about it,” he said of the reported rise in computer attacks.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2012
But in other scenes Warwick is babbling and serving drinks to people who are not there.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2011
He does not know what he is babbling.
From Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Rufus Matthew Jones
