What is "yammering"

Usage examples of "yammering".

His heart began yammering as he flattened himself against the wall beside the door—as if that made a difference.

The explosion sent shockwaves yammering through the skyscraper’s structure, blowing out a huge crater on the northern corner and shattering hundreds of surrounding windows.

She could feel her yammering heart slowing to a more pedestrian rhythm.

The yammering, pitiful voices of the beyond were intent on explaining the magnitude of the Trafalgar disaster to her.

Harris thoughtfully began rolling it up into a tube, starting with the head so the yammering was cut off.

And yammering cries rose in a babbling chorus that was weirdly tinged with something utterly alien to anything human!

Their yammering, almost wordless babble was weirdly suggestive of the chirring outcries of the scaly crustaceans in the black pools of the swamp.

In the corridor outside the door there was dimly audible the wordless babble of yammering voices as the maimed pack milled in dazed uncertainty, but Kent was certain that their overwhelming dread of the Thing in the pool would prevent any of them from opening the door to interfere.

And after a moment there sounded the yipping and yammering of excited dogs.

For you and Cantrell and those others to spend that entire time yammering about Arethusa would be more than he could bear.

With them yammering and dragging at the chains, he made for the horses watched over by a nervous groom.

Its sudden arrival set the dogs to yammering until the creature noiselessly launched itself into the air and vanished into the darkening forest.

The Eika dogs went wild, yammering and tugging on their chains as they dragged the stake out of the dirt and bolted forward.

Even with the jet engines screaming through the open forward door as Brian pulled the 767 away from the ladder and the wing of the Delta jet, she could hear their yammering, inhuman cry.

At night her yowls and yammerings filled the keep, and in the day she wept uncontrollably and babbled in unalloyed fear of something or someone hideous and grasping, but what or who it was none knew or would say.