(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'.
Jabbering
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Jabber
Example Sentences:
(1) Alan Johnson, who was a union general secretary himself, is right to caution that "a return of the union finger jabbers" will be bad for Labour, especially with the centrist voters in the southern half of the country who must be won back if Labour is to return to power.
(2) "I just want to make sure I got the last answer," he jabbers on.
(3) I can play ball, sweat and leave.” Two blocks away a bundled-up figure lay facing a wall, jabbering to himself in Arabic.
(4) "By GOD," Hilary gasps in episode one, possibly realising she has signed up for months of sitting in this dusty 90s hellhole with Perfect Peter Jones and know-it-all Theo having to entertain a dismal tribe of jabberers, snake-oil salesmen, "mumpreneurs" and emotionally adrift dreamers who researchers found in mid-afternoon Wetherspoons.
(5) Most recently, the multimillionaire friend of David Cameron, Jeremy Clarkson , continues to enjoy a contract funded by the public that permits him to "humorously" jabber racist rubbish at us.
(6) Detailed witness statements from the five men - Hussein Jabbari Ali, Hussain Fadhil Abass, Atiyah Sayid Abdelreza, Madhi Jassim Abdullah and Ahmad Jabber Ahmood - describe what they heard while in detention, when they said they were cuffed and forced to wear blacked-out goggles.
(7) That’s where I cut my teeth, in that independent scene full of punks and noise freaks and drag queens and experimental composers and jabbering street poets.
(8) He said it was a response to a critic who'd jabbered at him incessantly; it was interpreted as a critique of the impossibility of thought without language.
(9) Manchester City 1-1 Borussia Dortmund (Balotelli 89pen) After completely ignoring Wedienfeller jabbering in his ear as he waited to take the spot-kick, Mario Balotelli takes his run-up, stops and then waits for the goalkeeper to dive towards one corner before nonchalantly rolling the ball into the other.
(10) People are queueing all day long,” said Nuha Abdul Jabber, Oxfam’s humanitarian programme manager in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a.
(11) The inquiry was commissioned after the deaths of Baha Mousa , a hotel receptionist who died in British custody with 93 separate injuries, and 16-year-old Ahmed Jabber Kareem, who drowned after allegedly being forced to swim across a river.
(12) Just noticed Dundee United legend Ivan Golac in the Southampton team photo,” interjects Simon McMahon in the excited, jabbering fashion.
(13) I had got off a plane only the night before after a 21-hour flight and was beginning to think that I was tripping as Johan Renck and his lighting cameraman jabbered away in Swedish, discussing the complexity of the shot.
(14) Two other civilians, Ahmed Jabber Kareem and Hassan Abbad Said, are also known to have died in British military custody, or while being taken into custody.
(15) Anyway, I haven't quit the newspaper, but I have, for the meantime, stopped writing weekly, partly because my overall workload was making that kind of timetable impossible, and partly because I've recently been overwhelmed by the sheer amount of jabber in the world: a vast cloud of blah I felt I was contributing to every seven days.
(16) She begins by jabbering a bit about untimely celebrity deaths, especially those whose lives are "shadowed by dark appetites or fractured by private vice".
(17) Even at their best, Donald Trump’s tweets – disjointed, jabbering and ungrammatical as they are – have the nonsensical ring of spam email.
(18) ESPN have been on air since then and haven't stopped jabbering away for the last eight hours.
(19) It is becoming almost impossible to survive Nuha Abdul Jabber, Oxfam “There are less and less of the basic necessities.
(20) Ahmad's father, Jabber Kareem Ali, 44, wrote to the British military asking them to pursue the investigation.