Example sentences for: babble

How can you use “babble” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • However, it was only a mere 5,000 years ago that Homo loquens hit upon writing down some of the Babelian babble around him--and there has been no stopping him since!

  • Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which relocates King Lear on an Iowa farm, has been adapted into "an ungainly, undigested assembly of 'women's issues' " (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Critics call its screenplay soap-operatic: The Lear figure (Jason Robards) molests his daughters (Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Jennifer Jason Leigh), who babble in lengthy pop-psych disquisitions.

  • The heroes of Real Life (1979), Modern Romance (1981), and Lost in America (1985) have their jerky sides (emotionally squeamish viewers tend to find them repellent), but they also have compensatory gifts--chiefly Brooks' urgent babble, in which pleas are made and then restated and then turned inside out in a way that brilliantly (and hilariously) distills neurotic thought processes.

  • 3) The role mottle: Christopher Hitchens has complained about the annoying, cloying quality of the modern babble about "role models."

  • murmur, murmur, murmur, murmur"--we wake up, recognizing the sound of our own inner babble.


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