(1) His comic adventures are too many to relate, but it may be said that they culminate in a café of 'singing waiters' where, after a wealth of comic 'business' with the tray, he shows his disdain for articulate speech by singing a vividly explicit song in gibberish.
(2) When Ray Moore – now the former chief executive of the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, home of the eponymous tournament – said the ladies should get down on their knees to give thanks for the brilliance of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal because otherwise no one would pay any attention to female tennis players at all, he was talking the kind of gibberish usually heard from people who haven’t thought about the subject at all.
(3) If you followed the remarks as they are written in the official transcript, the president elect was talking gibberish.
(4) A committee of MPs last week criticised Uber for creating “gibberish” and “almost unintelligible” contracts to ensure that its drivers remained self-employed.
(5) "From which dusty basement did they dig out the venomous Stalinist spider who wrote that gibberish?"
(6) A committee of MPs has lambasted Uber’s contracts with drivers as “gibberish” and “almost unintelligible” as the company attempts to ensure its drivers remain self-employed.
(7) That’s why Trump’s 100 days of gibberish aren’t just disorienting and silly – they’re dangerous.
(8) His one decent story was sent as a cable in Latin to keep it secret, but the foreign desk assumed it was gibberish and binned it; he was out of town when the biggest story of the war, concerning a mysterious British financier who tried to stymie the Italian advance, broke; and the Mail quickly lost faith in him and told him to return.
(9) You think he’s talking gibberish but there are things going on that you need to piece together.
(10) Even if we accept this defence, the basic principle of pushing together independent samples, without any population weighting, is a recipe for producing statistical gibberish.
(11) Be sure and set your TV closed captioning to gibberish,” read one tweet.
(12) The documentary Reel Bad Arabs does an exhaustive analysis of this stereotype, but examples include Eugene Levy in Father of the Bride II (who gets extra points for donning brown-face and talking in gibberish), Spiros Focás in Jewel of the Nile, Richard Romanus in Protocol.
(13) Wife and stepson charged in murder of Ku Klux Klan leader in Missouri Read more Asked for comment on the report, Andrew Anglin, the founder of the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer site, wrote: “It’s just more of the same goofy gibberish from the Jews.” After decades on the fringes of American life, racist hate groups found themselves unexpectedly in the mainstream news spotlight last year, as Ku Klux Klan members and neo-Nazis rejoiced at Donald Trump’s rise and his presidential victory.
(14) I don't want to sound pernickety, or apply Goveian strictures to the language, hampering its development and fluidity, but if we allow "issues" to swamp it, we'll soon all be talking deathly national curriculum and corporate gibberish and the world will be a much drearier place.
(15) Frank Field, chair of the work and pensions select committee that is carrying out an investigation into the so-called gig economy , said: “Quite frankly the Uber contract is gibberish.
(16) It perplexed British critics when it toured here last year, not only because it mingled English with Spanish, French and what sounded alarmingly like gibberish, but because it approached this most familiar of tragedies with a disarming lack of reverence.
(17) His argument that there are “alternatives” to abortion when a pregnancy is life-threatening is pure gibberish .
(18) The speeches, in a mixture of Hausa and the local Tangale, must have sounded like gibberish to her.
(19) When Desiigner becomes president in 12 years and changes the lyrics of the Star-Spangled Banner to some mindless gibberish about BMWs, it will be their fault.
(20) He has described her as 'wasted, talking gibberish'.
Groaning
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Groan
Example Sentences:
(1) For the final three visible minutes, Lockett writhed, groaned, attempted to lift himself off the gurney and tried to speak, despite a doctor having declared him unconscious.
(2) If I give a conference here, people groan when I talk about him.
(3) Of the Iraqi people, groaning under years of dictatorship.
(4) We meet at the headquarters of the Independent and the Evening Standard in Kensington, in an office scented by a Jo Malone orange blossom candle, and groaning with contemporary art.
(5) Clippard gets ahead of him 0-2, throws a high fastball which Carpenter refuses to chase and then takes two more balls to the collective groan of Nationals Park.
(6) Despite the world-weary tone of a brutal review in the New York Times, which suggested that it added nothing new to the "groaning shelf" of homosexual literature, a story with an unashamedly gay protagonist unleashed a storm of protest in a country where sodomy was still illegal.
(7) It's the first interview he's done since his marriage and divorce and the split-up of the Ordinary Boys, and it all comes rushing out in a spate, a tangle of chronological confusions and jokes, and groans when I quote some of his old interviews back at him, and statements of contrition, and digressions about Dawkins or whatever, and here's the confounding thing - he's really nothing like I was expecting, not indie-boy sulky, or attempting to play it cool, he's just talkative and engaging, and he has a sense of humour about himself that, from reading his previous interviews, I wouldn't have even guessed at.
(8) Not all the jokes land, and some of the tastelessness may inspire groans.
(9) A s the schools break up for summer, the shelves of Britain’s retailers are groaning with “half price” sun protection cream offers, ready for families heading to the beach.
(10) The retired appeal court judge's report, which runs to three volumes, found that troops from 1st Battalion Queen's Lancashire Regiment inflicted "gratuitous" violence on a group of 10 Iraqi civilians, who were kicked and hit in turn, "causing them to emit groans and other noises and thereby playing them like musical instruments".
(11) "Oh God," groaned a delegate leafing through the guide to fringe meetings.
(12) There were groans as Clinton was declared victorious, although there was also defiance.
(13) Read more The MEPs responded to his oration with a mixture of boos, groans, shouts and ironic applause.
(14) The family justice review speculates that the cost of the entire groaning, overloaded family court system – only likely to be exacerbated after Thursday's report into the death of another toddler, Ryan Lovell Hancox – could be in the region of £1.5bn.
(15) The home fans groaned whenever the ball went near the Romanian, Benteke often pulled away to the left to unsettle him, and Villa’s opener came after he conceded possession cheaply inside his own half.
(16) Meanwhile, New York and New Jersey groaned back to life after travel bans.
(17) "There's a stereotype of a groaning bodybuilding guy using the weights area," says McGown.
(18) I'd groan at gossip magazines, furious with the world's asinine obsession with celebrity, disappointed by women gazing doe-eyed at the camera with vulnerable, save-me expressions on their Botoxed faces.
(19) Between their inward groans and suppressed giggles, the friends recognised something of great value, a familiar form no other artist had yet nicked.
(20) I can think of many things, of whether we summon the strength to recognise the global challenge of the 21st century and beat it, of the Iraqi people groaning under years of dictatorship, of our armed forces - brave men and women of whom we can feel proud, whose morale is high and whose purpose is clear - of the institutions and alliances that shape our world for years to come.