mumbling

Example Sentences

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Mumbling, moaning, crashing of pans heating coffee and the odd scream, at Visión En Acción rehabilitation centre, or “rescue asylum”.

From The Guardian • Dec. 8, 2019

Mumbling a little, Eilish wheeled around the stage, like a spinning top about to give out, and then hiked up her shorts, which, baggy and long, were messing with her torque.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 26, 2019

Mumbling actors, very loud slapping sounds, the line "water look at that", a shark rendered on AutoCAD, the name Big Shark.

From The Guardian • Feb. 12, 2019

On his blog Stumbling and Mumbling, economist-turned-journalist Chris Dillow explains what Schanbacher is getting at in simpler terms.

From Time • Jul. 13, 2012

Mumbling something that I couldn’t understand, Grandpa reached down and picked up a good-size stick.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls