gabble away

When the poor things first come here they gabble away like geese, although the children can soon speak well enough.

I feel as if there's an entire flock up there, just gabbling away."

It gabbled away mindlessly, but no one was listening or watching.

He continued to gabble away under his breath and the ladies returned to their gossip.

They were still gabbling away, oblivious to the plane's speed and angle of climb.

Women piled aboard, gabbling away in Italian, and throwing meaningful looks at those working on the deck, before going below.

"The frogs around here all gabble away like mad ... Still, they seem to know what we want.

He gabbled away in his high-pitched voice, in the same incomprehensible tongue that he'd used originally.

Troy watched his odd hitched-up mouth (like a camel's, she thought) gabbling away ecstatically.

On the shelf beside them a PMR set was gabbling away in a foreign language.

The geomorphologist grew increasingly excited about the soil he was digging, and gabbled away happily in Italian.

His mother gabbled away at him as she poured him a cup of tea and offered him the only chair at the table.

She gabbled away animatedly.

Oh, how you gabbled away in your feverish delirium . . . Yes, you did.

Alec, self-deluded fool, was now on his knees with his hands clasped over his eyes, gabbling away like a crazy man, praying for death again.

I can write criticism, and gabble away on the radio, but the only thing I can really do with any degree of finesse is write poetry.

Evidently, so long as they got their quota of mending done and didn't talk too loudly, their Overseer didn't care if they gabbled away.

Marvellous how the Captain gabbled away in the lingo: he sounded as French as Louis, except when he was talking Italian, of course.

The woman caller was gabbling away excitedly, but even with the phone pressed so tightly against his ear it hurt, he couldn't make out what she was agitated about.

The day went well and the moppet was happy enough with Patience, gabbling away in her mother tongue, listening with every appearance of understanding to Patience's replies in plain English.

Dangerfield, on a couch up in his satellite, gabbling away about his childhood . . . oh God, she thought, and she hurried back to the living room to catch it all.

They were collaborating on their HUDs, facing each other across a lab-bench in the middle of a lab as big as a basketball court, cluttered with logomarked tchotchkes and gabbling away while their eyes danced over invisible screens.