WARBLE in a Sentence

Learn WARBLE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

14 example sentences for WARBLE, such as:

1. In the spring, linnets warble in the trees.
2. Every morning the birds warble outside her window.
3. Ned, getting sentimental, warbled a serenade with the pensive refrain.
4. Likewise nightingales were warbling from the recesses of the foliage, and some wood tulips were glowing yellow in the grass.
5. But she would have consented if he had proposed to sing a whole opera, and warbled away, blissfully regardless of time and tune.

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 Meanings and Examples of WARBLE
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warble
 v.  sing note or song with trills; modulate tone's frequency
Classic Sentence:
1  Everything in this charming retreat, from the warble of the birds to the smile of the mistress, breathed tranquillity and repose.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 50. The Morrel Family.
2  In the spring, linnets warble in the trees.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES
3  Ned, getting sentimental, warbled a serenade with the pensive refrain.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
4  But she would have consented if he had proposed to sing a whole opera, and warbled away, blissfully regardless of time and tune.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
5  Other poets have warbled the praises of the soft eye of the antelope, and the lovely plumage of the bird that never alights; less celestial, I celebrate a tail.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
6  The gramophone warbled Home, Sweet Home, and Budge, swaying slightly, descended from his box and followed the procession off the stage.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
7  "You are really very comforting," warbled the duchess.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
8  I hear a nightingale warbling in a wood half a mile off; no moving form is visible, no coming step audible; but that perfume increases: I must flee.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
9  Nevertheless, ere long, the warm, warbling persuasiveness of the pleasant, holiday weather we came to, seemed gradually to charm him from his mood.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Ahab.
10  One voice, another voice, a third voice came wimpling and warbling: gruff--Bart's voice; quavering--Lucy's voice; middle-toned--Isa's voice.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
11  Likewise nightingales were warbling from the recesses of the foliage, and some wood tulips were glowing yellow in the grass.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
12  A red-breast was warbling in the thicket, on one side.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
Example Sentence:
1  It consisted in a peculiar bird-like turn, a sort of liquid warble, produced by touching the tongue to the roof of the mouth at short intervals in the midst of the music -- the reader probably remembers how to do it, if he has ever been a boy.
2  Every morning the birds warble outside her window.