Sentence examples for babbler from inspiring English sources

In reality, there is usually at least one inane babbler to break the silence.A couple of problems prevent peaceful trips.

Formerly considered a subfamily (Paradoxornithinae) of the babbler family (Timaliidae) or a subfamily (Panurinae) of the Old World flycatcher family (Muscicapidae), they have also been raised to the family Paradoxornithidae.

I'm woken at 6am by a raucous dawn chorus – babbler birds, I'm told, screeching outside my tent.

Like the Australian gray-crowned babbler, these birds engage in coöperative breeding, as most young males spend several years raising their relatives.

In 1976, in one of the first experimental tests of Hamilton's hypothesis, the researchers Jerry and Esther Brown began manipulating the number of helper birds in the babbler nests.

The young males of the Australian gray-crowned babbler, a small woodland bird with a curved black beak, have long perplexed biologists.

When one celebrity clattered off her skis during a race last week, the reaction – from the host to the commentator to the cameramen – was one of genuine panic, with crash-zooms and babbled ad-libs and nervous glances off-camera.

That same season (when Idol was averaging over 30 million viewers a night), Kellie Pickler became a water cooler favorite with her ditzy antics, as she babbled over Simon Cowell's critiques and mispronounced words like "salmon".

Everywhere you went in Paris during the revolt in Tunisia, portable televisions blared at top volume in shops, takeaways and cafes, broadcasting a polyglot, polyphonic babble from Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya and the French-speaking channels from the Maghreb.

If you ignore the babble, however, and can afford the price-tag, then there can't be many better ways of enjoying such an experience.

He was very gracious and babbled away while I remembered.