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How to use gurgle in a sentence

30 example sentences · verb, noun

Gurgle means to flow with a bubbling sound. Example: “The bath water gurgled down the drain.”

Examples of gurgle by meaning

verbTo flow with a bubbling sound.

  • The bath water gurgled down the drain.

verbTo make such a sound.

  • The baby gurgled with delight.

More sentences with gurgle

  • A baby gurgled, a photographer dropped her lens cap, and the strains of the U.S.2024, Christa Case Bryant, As US marks 9/11, a divided Congress unites to honor 13 fallen in Afghanistan, in: The Christian Science…. From the entry strain
  • It didn't have words, but it had emitted a wordsome gurgle.2017, Kevin McIlvoy, 57 Octaves Below Middle C, page 56. From the entry wordsome
  • Martyn muttered, his stomach gurgling at the reminder of his last meal.2016, Dennis J. Gordica, Charon and Demeter, AuthorHouse, →ISBN. From the entry unchewability
  • It's an interesting laugh, somewhere between a gurgle and a chortle.2015, Kathryn Lomer, Talk Under Water, University of Queensland Press, →ISBN. From the entry churgle
  • At that moment there was a gurgling sound and the gruesome twosome passed through the machine.2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], “Pink Furry Slippers”, in Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books…. From the entry gruesome twosome
  • The little gurgling sounds became great big hee haws of hysteria.2009, Wave Joann Stevens, Mystery, Adventure & Nonsense: True Stories of Make-Believe, →ISBN. From the entry hee haw
  • “All time she chasin’ me!” He made a gurgling noise, horrified by the memory.1981, Jake MacDonald, chapter 9, in Indian River: A Novel, Winnipeg, Man.: Queenston House, →ISBN, page 67. From the entry mumma bear
  • Melting snow gurgled in drainspouts and gutters, all Copenhagen was adrip.1948, Edgar Maass, The Queen’s Physician, New York: Scribner, Book 3, Chapter 8. From the entry adrip
  • The last of the milk vanished in a swirl of foam and gurgling.1938, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, chapter 15, in The Yearling, New York: Scribner, page 174. From the entry foam
  • "I'm here, Miss Mary," gurgled an ice-creamy voice at the door.1914, Henry Sydnor Harrison, Captivating Mary Carstairs. From the entry ice-creamy
  • The gurgling sound of the falls preponders the air.2019, Murli Menon, Travel Guide 2019 South East Asia, page 68. From the entry preponder
  • The hotel coffee machine gurgles out an acrid belch.2016 March 11, Jennifer Coates, “I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out.”, in Medium. From the entry belch
  • The man fell back through his swivelchair knocking it over and went to the floor and lay there twitching and gurgling.2010, Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men. From the entry swivelchair
  • While the coffeemaker gurgled, Ben remained entranced by the deer.2005, Bill Schneider, Second Chapter. From the entry coffeemaker
  • Some oil continued to gurgle to the surface.2005 November 1, Peter S. Goodman, “Oil Investors Tapped Out Of Wells”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original…. From the entry Kuche
  • The sounds are the muffled gurgling of runoff under frozen brooks, and the sharp quork-quork-quork of ravens overhead.2000, William Scheller, Snow Sports, page 170. From the entry quork
  • Breakfast was interrupted as a gam of porpoises surrounded the Argyle, swaying in the foam and singing in gurgles and beeps.1985, Dennis Kyte, To the Heart of a Bear: The Last Elegant Bear, →ISBN. From the entry gam
  • It steamed away or gurgled into cracks.1983, Gregory Benford, Against Infinity, New York, N.Y.: Avon Eos, published 1998, →ISBN, page 108. From the entry mutie
  • He was mad, reeling about and gesticulating at the rushing train, and champing and gurgling like a lunatic.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 200. From the entry champ
  • “Oh, I say–how topping for you !” gurgled the cashier.1919, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Pictures”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company…. From the entry topping
  • I head for the door, but instantly the bumping, gurgling diesel sound gets louder, grindier, it becomes more frantic, and I do too.2008, Chris Lynch, “Game On”, in The Big Game of Everything, New York, N.Y.: HarperTeen, →ISBN, page 264. From the entry grindy
  • The wind-chime tingling of halyards slapping against masts, the constant creaking of wooden boats, the gurgling of water passing under the hull.1991, Michael L. Frankel, Sabra Crossing: An Ecological Adventure in the North Atlantic. From the entry tingle
  • Little Cheggers, his mobile henchman, laughs, gurgles and beats his tiny fists together like a baby on the old-fashioned Cow and Gate tins.1977 December 9, Michael Church, “Multi-coloured Swap Shop”, in The Times, page 15. From the entry Cheggers
  • The opium-eating sod sidled off gurgling.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 72. From the entry opium-eating
  • At the far end, they would be greeted by the green sun-dappled waters of the Bosna as they gurgled up in streams and pools dotted with islands.2022, Priscilla Morris, Black Butterflies, Duckworth, page 70. From the entry Bosna
  • Eh, Twigs," he said, "'tis the alfet for a ewbrice." ¶ Dimple gurgled, swallowed, and said, "And what, Jacko boy, might an alfet be?" ¶ Jacko grinned.1981, Edmund Apffel, The Last Days at St. Saturn's, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, →ISBN, page 40. From the entry alfet
  • She cried out, and Fina brought the butt 'round again, and this time the bone must have pierced the brain because the body went limp with a final, plaintive gurgle.2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 22 May 2024. From the entry go south
  • Their "Definition 2" usage is giving overt expression to what the pleasures of hearing the gurgling of a bathtub draining and the feeling of popping Bubble Wrap have in common.2022 July 30, John McWhorter, “Language Evolves Right Before Our Ears. It's Very 'Satisfying'”, in New York Times, archived from the…. From the entry satisfying

Meaning of gurgle

  1. verb To flow with a bubbling sound.
  2. verb To make such a sound.
  3. noun A gurgling sound.

Full definition of gurgle

Questions about gurgle in a sentence

How do you use gurgle in a sentence?
Gurgle is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The bath water gurgled down the drain.”
What is a short sentence with gurgle?
“The baby gurgled with delight.”
What does gurgle mean?
Gurgle means to flow with a bubbling sound.

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