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How to use jabber in a sentence

14 example sentences · verb, noun

Jabber means to talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense. Example: “He jabbered incessantly and annoyed everyone.”

Examples of jabber by meaning

verbTo utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble.

  • Nobody could make out plain what she said, for she was mainly jabbering Swede lingo, but there was English enough, of a kind, to give us some idee.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
  • He wept very little, but when he wept he howled aloud, and jabbered wild abuse, threats and recriminations through the wet torrent of his howling.1939, H. G. Wells, The Holy Terror, Book One, Chapter 1, Section 2

nounRapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish.

  • He's at relative rhetorical ease with classy theoretical jabber such as emergent behavior, cyborganics, chaos theory, transparent interfaces, artificial life, and the machinic phylum.1996 July, Bruce Sterling, “Is Phoenix Burning”, in Wired, →ISSN

nounOne who or that which jabs.

  • Have the boys box, one jabbing and the other practicing the methods of boxing a jabber.1939, Edwin L. Haislet, Boxing in Education, page 160

nounOne who administers a hypodermic injection.

  • Like Claire, these “secret jabbers” are keeping it private even from their closest family and friends.2025 May 11, Imogen West-Knights, “‘I lost so much weight, my husband thought I was terminally ill’: why do people lie about taking...

More sentences with jabber

  • He jabbered incessantly and annoyed everyone.From the entry incessantly
  • Regina quickly set Serena onto the floor and spoke baby jabber to the cherished purse puppy.2012, Nancy Mangano, Murder Can Be Messy, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry purse puppy
  • To be as far away as possible from the jabbering women.2000, Zakes Mda, chapter 10, in The Heart of Redness, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, published 2002, page 230. From the entry aimfully
  • One of the oldmen started jabbering, US number one, VC number ten thou . . .1986, A. R. Flowers, De mojo blues: de quest of HighJohn de conqueror, page 160. From the entry oldman
  • “Maybe the stockyards are in Kansas City,” I jabbered, I hardly know why even now.1983, Peter De Vries, Slouching Towards Kalamazoo, Boston, Mass.; Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 97. From the entry hellbrew
  • And then the most Donald Duck-like screaming and jabbering you ever heard.1945, Ernie Pyle, edited by David Nichols, Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches, Touchstone Books, published…. From the entry Donald Duck
  • But several of his teammates later said Toomer was jabbering nonsensically in the huddle and seemed out on his feet.2000 November 16, Bill Pennington, “Pro Football: Toomer's Concussion Now a Scary Memory”, in New York Times, retrieved 18 May 2013. From the entry out on one's feet
  • The yells and yammering, croaking, jibbering and jabbering; howls, growls and curses; shrieking and skriking, that followed were beyond description.1937, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit. From the entry skrike
  • That is just what the Bandar Log overlook, when they jabber about the dreadful industrial upheaval that is coming with peace.1917, Ian Hay, Carrying On. From the entry bandar log

Meaning of jabber

  1. verb To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
  2. verb To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble.
  3. noun Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish.

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Questions about jabber in a sentence

How do you use jabber in a sentence?
Jabber is used as a verb and noun. For example: “He jabbered incessantly and annoyed everyone.”
What is a short sentence with jabber?
“He jabbered incessantly and annoyed everyone.”
What does jabber mean?
Jabber means to talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.

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