How to Use baby talk in a Sentence

baby talk

noun

• Even a stranger at the park might coo to them in baby talk.
  — Bydavid Grimm, science.org, 24 Oct. 2022
• Peña wore fingerless gloves at all hours and spoke in baby talk.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2022
• Maybe it's being tossed up in the air, or social contact with baby talk.
  — Matt Villano, CNN, 19 Aug. 2022
• West, hearing the braps, skrrts, and yughs of his peers, has responded with baby talk: scoop!
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 14 June 2018
• For instance, baby talk is higher pitched than adult talk, and baby song is smoother than adult song.
  — New York Times, 24 July 2022
• Basically, a kind of baby talk aimed at their pups to guide them towards adult bat language.
  — Mark Stratton, Scientific American, 3 Sep. 2021
• Know Your Audience The results suggest dogs do seem to prefer the canine version of baby talk.
  — National Geographic, 31 May 2018
• Many of the kids who had stopped speaking in baby talk or sleeping in their parents’ beds, or had started going to the bathroom themselves, have regressed.
  — Annie Vainshtein, SFChronicle.com, 23 Aug. 2020
• Maybe adults don't understand baby talk, but this dad didn't let a little gibberish get in the way of a conversation with his son.
  — Wesli Jones, CNN, 7 June 2019
• Even Harry himself got in on the baby talk during his speech at the opening ceremony of the 2018 Invictus Games.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 21 Oct. 2018
• In fact, sound designers made baby talk recordings and married the tones with a synthesizer to get R2-D2's nearly human sounds.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 21 Dec. 2019
• The handyman Boyle traumatized with baby talk has an alibi, which is revealed to Jake via lullaby.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2021
• Talk to her in a normal voice (no baby talk or raised voices), but don’t overdo it because too much talk can trigger submissive urination, too.
  — Cathy M. Rosenthal, ExpressNews.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• There was plenty of baby talk during Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's royal engagements today.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Jan. 2019
• The findings suggest that baby talk and baby song serve a function independent of cultural and social forces.
  — New York Times, 24 July 2022
• Sanad alternated effortlessly between babbling baby talk to his cousin Salma and cracking jokes with the adults.
  — Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2019
• Commonplace among languages around the world, baby talk involves speaking to infants in a high-pitched, exaggerated way.
  — National Geographic, 31 May 2018
• Forget baby talk--give me kitten talk any day!Mother-offspring recognition in the domestic cat: Kittens recognize their own mother's call.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2016
• My mother catered to Noosie’s every whim, speaking to her in Arabic baby talk, and her anticipation for grandchildren became less latent.
  — Marlo Safi, National Review, 24 Aug. 2019
• Gizmodo reports that in a study that's been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, puppies respond to baby talk, but full-grown dogs are apathetic to your cooing.
  — Sammy Nickalls, Esquire, 11 Jan. 2017
• The rest is noise: annoying DJ battles, Dracula passing gas, entire conversations that consist of nonsensical baby talk.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, azcentral, 12 July 2018
• In Torvald’s presence, Nora remains a recognizable type, the strategically chirpy songbird pursing her lips and cooing in baby talk.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024