were gurgling
- past progressive of gurgle.
Example Sentences
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There were gurgling, cooing, month-and-a-half old newborns in Brooklyn and Westchester who had never known the soul-emptying pain of a crushing Knicks defeat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
The rain, too, had filled the brooks, and their waters were gurgling down deep, shadowy dells, mingling their touching music with the sad, sighing wind.
From The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family by Waud, A. R.
There were organs and drums and trumpets; there were little thrush flutes and bullfinch pipes; there were gurgling brooks and singing water-sprites, tinkling bluebells and thrumming woodpeckers.
From The Emperor of Portugalia by Howard, Velma Swanston
There was a steep ascent uphill through the clay; here in the winding ditches rivulets were gurgling.
From The Schoolmistress, and other stories by Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
And Nature possibly followed her example; for at sunset a great thaw set in, and by midnight the freed rivers and brooks were gurgling melodiously, and tree and shrub and fence were moist and dripping.
From Thankful Blossom by Harte, Bret
