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Example sentences for "gabbled"

Lexicographically close words:
gab; gabardine; gabardines; gabbing; gabble; gabbling; gabbro; gaberdine; gaberlunzie; gabion
  1. It was all done very deliberately, and through it all her formidable gaze held the Portugee at arm's length, till his gabbled insults died out and left him armed only with scowls.

  2. The man both times looked astounded, and carefully but quickly rubbed his head; he then stared awhile, and gabbled to his companions, but he never seemed to think of running away.

  3. The stroke-oarsman gabbled Indian, and uttered strange cries, much after the fashion of a pig-driver driving his pigs.

  4. I have said it to you twice since you came;' and I gabbled through the chief towns and rivers as catalogued in my geography.

  5. He never took any trouble about the church, he just gabbled the prayers and preached the same old sermons.

  6. The actors gabbled through the last scenes in helpless unintelligible dumb-show.

  7. During the last two evenings she mumbled and gabbled out her part in a way to provoke the audience.

  8. Ye hae kept her about ye night and day sin' ye gaed daft, and losh, mon, ye hae gabbled wild talk enough to turn the head o' ony lassie clean daft.

  9. When he had concluded a gabbled exhortation and premonishment, they rose.

  10. Bertie gabbled about no end of things that afternoon.

  11. She and Aunt Josephine gabbled and gabbled, and never paid the slightest attention to me, and although they were both unusually tiresome, I suppose I could n't avoid remembering some of the things they said.

  12. All the way he slobbered tobacco juice; and gabbled his religion at me, while occasionally I swore mine back at him.

  13. Old Splinter chuckled and gabbled as he heard this, and declared that there was not wit enough left now even among the Paides Pallados to understand a shaft of irony.

  14. No conductor comes to punch your ticket, no brakeman to bellow the stops, no train butcher bleating the gabbled invoice of his gumdrops, bananas and other best-sellers.

  15. She shook her head at that and gabbled faster than ever.

  16. Here is a specimen, as gabbled to the customer over a pack of cards laid out on the table; anybody can do the like: "You face a misfortune.

  17. Seeing the little sinner, she flung up her hands and gabbled with the monotony of dry peas pouring through a broken bag.

  18. With a "huh-huh," he gabbled back some answer.

  19. Radisson turned sharply; but the heedless fellow gabbled on.

  20. Le Borgne gabbled out something that drove the braves back.

  21. A log broke on the coals with a flare that painted Le Borgne's evil face fiery red; and the fellow gabbled on, with figure crouching stealthily forward, foxy eye alight with evil, and teeth glistening.

  22. Only in the most lonesome places, far from where the hens cackled and the geese gabbled and the cocks crew, would the Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said find him.

  23. This much satisfactorily settled, they gabbled of other things.

  24. Then she poured out coffee, gabbled something about the "bueno maestro," and withdrew.

  25. Myra, as Padre Sancho gabbled through the rest of the service, closed his book and raised his right hand as if bestowing a blessing, whereupon some of the brigands behind and around him began to cheer.

  26. You have fooled me before, but you cannot fool me into believing that the farcical service, gabbled in a language I do not understand by one of your men masquerading as a monk, constitutes a marriage.

  27. When the others straggled down and gabbled questions at him he refused to reply, but stood peering into the lifting dawn.

  28. III Once on a time when the Wixon boy put Paris-green in the Trufants' well, because the oldest Trufant girl had given him the mitten, Marm Gossip gabbled in Smyrna until flecks of foam gathered in the corners of her mouth.

  29. I know where you live," gabbled off the Wagtail.

  30. Then, thinking that he would give a display of his learning, he elevated his sulphur crest and gabbled off, "Go to Jericho!

  31. Duckie in the out-house quacked and gabbled as she had quacked and gabbled since the light began, yet no one came to let her out and feed her.

  32. The others gabbled noisily, but to him words came with difficulty.

  33. He stepped to the switch-board, and, after going through a series of genuflections, accompanied by an undertone of carelessly gabbled ritual, he depressed a lever.

  34. Jantje seemed to think it the best joke in the world and with constant squeals of laughter and graphic gestures gabbled off his account.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gabbled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.