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Meanings of blathering in English

Babbling.

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        Examples for "babbling"
        Examples for "babbling"
        1
        This stream had no babbling voice; its note was low and grave.
        Lewis Rand
        2
        The tent was suddenly alive with optimism, babbling with questions and hope.
        Siege of heaven
        3
        The water I heard is nothing more than a small babbling brook.
        I am number four
        4
        Muh'Dear's new friend started babbling on about something, but I wasn't listening.
        God don't like ugly
        5
        The young man sounded innocent enough, like a carefree lad just babbling.
        Brotherhood of the Wolf
        1
        The divisional CO spoke up: 'Let us be done with this jabbering.
        The white war: life and death on the italian front 1915-1919
        2
        The saleswoman compliments her French accent, and they start jabbering in French.
        The new yorker
        3
        Korak, returning from the hunt, heard the jabbering of the excited monkeys.
        The Son of Tarzan
        4
        From the kneeling eunuch came a shriek and moan and incoherent jabbering.
        A Williams Anthology / A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Wi...
        5
        I seem to loathe as much as I loved the jabbering idiot.
        The White Chief: A Legend of Northern Mexico
        1
        And what a blithering idiot they have in me to deal with.
        Truxton King: A Story of Graustark
        2
        My dear boy-excuseme, sir, I'm a blithering old man, but oh!
        Dennison Grant: A Novel of To-day
        3
        Anybody but a blithering Spanish ass would have known it at the start.
        The Ne'er-Do-Well
        4
        The blithering idiots ducked me yesterday for being disrespectful, that's all.
        The Lamp in the Desert
        5
        I've been the most almighty blithering darned idiot that it's possible to imagine.
        The Secret Adversary
        Usage of blathering in English
        1
        It's about people blathering away on Twitter and drumming up sentimental votes.
        The Guardian
        2
        Rather than blathering about his problems, he wanted to listen to me talk.
        How to make love like a porn star
        3
        So Gaborn nodded at King Orwynne's blathering, hardly speaking, hardly daring to move.
        Brotherhood of the Wolf
        4
        Gissing was blathering all kinds of stuff: none of it made any sense.
        Complete Books of Blood
        5
        Nothing strange there -blathering is what we academics do best.
        Wired
        6
        Then they squandered it all on men in uniforms blathering in control rooms.
        Radio NZ
        7
        The obese woman is blathering about something, but nobody is listening to her.
        The Menstruating Mall
        8
        All that blathering about glorious honor and loyalty is for fairy tales, not reality.
        Embrace the darkness
        9
        The voice carried on with her blathering, her verbal diarrhoea.
        The South African
        10
        And a chap in a white coat blathering on about Howell-Jolly bodies isn't helping.
        The Guardian
        11
        Jack never stopped blathering the whole time, the old fool.
        A fugitive truth: an emma fielding mystery
        12
        After blathering about a problem he was having with his shoulder, he turned to Peter.
        Secret of the seventh son
        13
        They were blathering about all manner of girlie guff and giving me great silent gigglage.
        The Irish Times
        14
        Otherwise, this discussion is no more than pointless blathering.
        Brisingr
        15
        I'm a blathering idiot to mind...I ought to be dancing with joy at my escape.
        Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life
        16
        Any second he'd be blathering about world peace.
        The capitol game
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