I. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Don't pay any attention to her - she's just babbling.
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He babbled on and on until everyone had left the room.
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He was running around babbling about someone named Tulkeke.
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The woman was babbling incoherently and waving a gun.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I always thought he was simply babbling, but suddenly he got up and went.
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I blurted and babbled something and neatly slipped into the make-up shop.
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Rump steak, his mind was babbling, rump steak.
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Victoria babbled like a brook, chasing motes in the sunbeams.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an hour of babble about UFOs
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A spontaneous cheer went round the ship, followed by a babble of talk as everyone relaxed.
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As the happy couple took their places there was a stir and a rising babble behind them.
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Migrants came in waves with their babble of tongues.
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She talked in a babble like the babble of birds, that ghost from the sea, that white she-ghost.
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The babble of conversation was punctuated by the chink of bottles against glasses.
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The reforms deserve something better than the babble that has followed them from birth.
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Then there's nothing but the implacable, soul-less beat, and a subdued babble of shudders and metallic gasps.