wabble
1 Americanverb (used with or without object)
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of wabble
Variant of warble 2
Example Sentences
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Observers watched the craft, towed by an automobile, scrape across the ground, rise, wabble, dive, crash.
From Time Magazine Archive
To cure the tendency of rockets to wabble in flight, Dr. Goddard has worked out a small gyroscope that keeps his missiles in line by switching the tail vanes when necessary.
From Time Magazine Archive
WHEN, after a dream-ridden night, Skippy started across the campus to morning chapel, the urchin's wabble had gone from his legs forever.
From Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World by Ernest Fuhr
It occurred to him, also, that he was standing on a loose stone which might wabble when he pulled his gun, and he cursed himself silently for his hasty folly.
From Riders of the Silences by John Frederick
Four blind men wabble down the street with careful steps on the rounded cobbles scraping with violin and flute the interment of a tune.
From A Pushcart at the Curb by John Dos Passos
Without their able acting, the old Western story would have wabbled.
From Time Magazine Archive
Down the gang plank wabbled a pint-size pedigreed Holstein bull calf.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once again the six-year-old NEW Revolution wabbled between the mastery of the State and the labor unions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Carr sprang to his feet where he wabbled uncertainly for a moment.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 by Various
The blade wabbled, took a mad skid for the surface, and the handles hit me a blow in the ribs which knocked my breath out.
From The Idyl of Twin Fires by Walter Prichard Eaton
"The Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire."
From The Guardian ● Jun. 28, 2014
Members of the Flying Force saw tragedy in the wabbling comedy above them in the air.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Beatissimus Pater, Pius XI, remained imperturbably seated in his study during the four minutes of earthcrust wabbling.
From Time Magazine Archive
I can see Dessie now, her gold pince-nez wabbling on a nose not properly bridged for pince-nez, her eyes streaming with hilarious tears, and her whole front constricted with muscular spasms of laughter.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
It became manifest then that my knees were wabbling, my feet puttering around, my whole lower limbs shaking as if I had the palsy.
From Tales of Fishes by Zane Grey
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