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- noun Plural form of
warbling .
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Examples
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"Piazza, New York Catcher" featured an admirer's lusty warblings about a beefcakey ballplayer.
In concert: Belle & Sebastian at DAR Constitution Hall Click Track 2010
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There were warblings that a film spinoff of the TV show was a possibility, but then Joss Weldon got busy I guess.
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"Piazza, New York Catcher" featured an admirer's warblings about a beefcake ballplayer.
Belle and Sebastian's light, Scottish songs lift the audience at DAR Post 2010
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Now, his modern-day equivalent can't go anywhere without a bottle of Poland Spring and an iPod so he can listen to the neutered warblings of Sufjan Stevens.
Nuggets of Wisdom: The Art of Crap Curation BikeSnobNYC 2010
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There's also some smart musical humour at work, particularly in the use of Sigur Rós's weird warblings, which do indeed sound as though they have drifted ashore from some ethereal underworld kingdom.
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In summary, it's someone riding up Mont Ventoux for awhile while being filmed from a car, set against the plaintive warblings of somebody on Thorazine:
Taking a Beating: Literally Stiffed, Vertically Complaining BikeSnobNYC 2010
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The Baltimore beatboxer Shodekeh spends his days mimicking sounds with his voice, coaxing all manner of drumbeats, sandpaper scrapings, didgeridoo warblings and a seemingly impossible variety of percussive rhythms from his vocal cords.
Baltimore beatboxer Shodekeh reads the likes of 'The Art of War' 2010
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Might have helped if the warblings of his headline act – Carla Bruni, aka Mrs Nicolas Sarkozy – had sold a few more albums too.
Diary Hugh Muir 2010
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You'll know it by Dappy's recurring "Na na, na-ay" and by Tulisa's cod-operatic warblings.
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And yet while I can't call myself a particularly good judge of what makes one opera good and another bad, I must say I found the nauseating operatic warblings in The Eternity Man to be an insufferable mess.
Archive 2009-03-01 Glenn Dunks 2009
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