gabbled

He gabbled, prattling about platitudes, desperate to get out of there.

Greek crisis: The Tory plan is... there isn't one 2011

He gabbled, prattling about platitudes, desperate to get out of there.

Greek crisis: The Tory plan is... there isn't one 2011

As they caught sight of Ah Cho they gabbled among themselves in low voices.

THE CHINAGO 2010

Tom Byam Shaw's Ariel may swing on a trapeze from time to time but his speech – at first strangely elongated, then gabbled – is earthbound and he trips around the stage as if he were an obliging ballet student rather than a sharp-edged sprite.

Decade; The Tempest; The Kitchen; Parade – review 2011

A district nurse came, gabbled into her mobile phone inches away from Dan's ear, a doctor, another nurse.

Is a dignified death at home too much to ask? 2011

They gabbled with Feodor as Georgi drew up two extra chairs, set two places, then withdrew after an elaborate set of good-byes.

Venom Joan Brady 2010

I knew he was trying to distract Will, but the talkative boy took no notice and gabbled on: There are but seven of you in all, and plays I have seen often have a dozen or more parts.

The Secret of the Sealed Room Bailey MacDonald 2010

I gabbled it in a whisper to Terry and Allison; the stout cleric goggled and Collins's hand twitched again at his lapel.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

Its very rapidity leads to some gabbled speaking, and the hurtling style which Boyd adopted for Shakespeare's histories is sometimes ill-suited to a play full of rhetorical excess.

Antony and Cleopatra 2010

The man gabbled and gestured and spun like a madman.

Colin Powell's UN Clown Show 2010