burbling

• Then the motor started grinding and burbling, and we began to move away from the shore I got out of the car and went to the front of the ferry, zipping up my navy wool jacket and pulling its hood over my head against the damp, biting cold. —  Muller, Marcia - [McCone 08] Eye of the Storm UC FR.htm
• She would pretend to listen to his burbling, her eyes blinking absentmindedly, her hair furling like snakes as they flexed and re-flexed into one of her many styles. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#216
• The noise of the lunchtime cafeteria was like the burbling sound of a waterfall, a liquid dance of unintelligible voices. —  Challenging Destiny #18
• He could see sympathy in the bright green eyes, her voice held a hint of her mother's birthplace, Achill Island off the west coast of Eire, running like a burbling stream beneath her usual General American. —  Map.html
• Utterly joyless, burbling, potato face that entered this contest for completely the wrong reasons, had a totally affected voice that she cynically thought would woo the Post-Winehouse public ands suffered her defeat with very little grace.

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