How to use babbling in a sentence

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• The men were babbling, so we couldn't make sense of anything.From the entry babble
• Hounds are said to babble, or to be babbling, when they are too noisy after having found a good scent.From the entry babble
• The babbling stream, people spreading out rush mats to sit on, snacking on kimbap.2015, Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith, The Vegetarian, Granta, published 2018, page 12. From the entry kimbap
• Once the kids were away, Singe began babbling about needing to get back to the house fast.2011, George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Down These Strange Streets, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry ratfolk
• I comes across as crass, a Neanderthal, a babbling idiot sometimes.2002, Mike Tyson to the Media. From the entry crass
• The entire mehfil was babbling away but Bahadur's tense silence rang like an alarm in my head.1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 176. From the entry mehfil
• Oh shut up, Wally, Candy was thinking, although she understood why he couldn't stop babbling.1985, John Irving, The Cider House Rules: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, ISBN 978-0-688-03036-0; republished as The…. From the entry unused
• For they thinke that they shall be heard, for their much babblings sake.1977 April 17, Martin E[mil] Marty, “[Bad Blood Over the Good News Bible] Praye Bable Not Over This Text”, in Los Angeles Times, volume…. From the entry strangelier
• But now, Venus Express, a European spaceship, is revealing enough bizarrities to keep a TV weather watcher babbling till dawn.2009, David J. Tenenbaum, Terry Devitt, The Why Files: The Science Behind the News, Penguin Books, →ISBN. From the entry bizarrity
• Now we are back to “muche babbling.”1977 April 17, Martin E[mil] Marty, “[Bad Blood Over the Good News Bible] Praye Bable Not Over This Text”, in Los Angeles Times, volume…. From the entry strangelier
• "Widdershins!" "What are you babbling about?" said Carrot.1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, published 1984, page x. 136. From the entry widdershins
• By the age of one year the child is babbling with varying intonation patterns, accompanied by extensive kinesic and vocalizational activity.1929, The Encyclopaedia Britannica. From the entry vocalizational
• 'I've seen the yogger up there so I got it out of the wardrobe . . .' She was babbling, half-crying with the aftermath of terror.2018, Jessie Keane, Fearless: The Most Shocking and Gritty Gangland Thriller You'll Read This Year, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN. From the entry yogger
• Nay, hush thee, hush! and listen to yon blithesome, bubblesome, babbling brook how it sigheth 'mid the willows, whispereth under reedy bank and laugheth, rogue-like, in the shallows!2015, Jeffery Farnol, The Geste of Duke Jocelyn. From the entry bubblesome
• "The Japanese lackeys of the so-called state of Manchukuo had the gall to protest, but General Secretary Stalin and Foreign Commissar Litvinov rejected their foolish babbling out of hand."2011, Harry Turtledove, The Big Switch, 1st edition, New York: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 88. From the entry Tsitsihar
• To do this, it was necessary to exile myself from doctors and medical conventions; for I could not think for myself while listening to the babblings of babeldom.2007, John H. Tilden, Toxemia Explained, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry babeldom
• Word often fail me at my moments of my greatest need, my accustomed glibness falls into inarticulacy or babbling at walls when confronted with the necessity of such intimate speech.1986, Reginald Shepherd, “On Not Being White”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 47. From the entry glibness

Meaning of babbling

1. noun A stage in child language acquisition, during which an infant appears to be experimenting with uttering sounds of language, but not yet producing any recognizable words.
2. noun Sounds produced by infant during the babbling period.
3. noun Idle senseless talk; prattle.

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How do you use babbling in a sentence?

Babbling is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “The men were babbling, so we couldn't make sense of anything.”

What is a short sentence with babbling?

“Now we are back to “muche babbling.””

What does babbling mean?

Babbling means a stage in child language acquisition, during which an infant appears to be experimenting with uttering sounds of language, but not yet producing any recognizable words.