mutter

Example Sentences

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“After overhearing a passionate ideological dispute around her own kitchen table between the future Nobel laureate for literature and his radical friends from the University of Chicago, she muttered: ‘Smart, smart, smart.

From The Wall Street Journal

As I’m spinning my combo lock, I mutter, “J, I’m sorry about earlier.”

From Literature

But from the Russians, apart from some discontented mutterings about European involvement and unauthorised leaks, the response has been somewhat muted.

From BBC

“I suppose neither of you would know what I looked like when I was this age,” Ama mutters to herself.

From Literature

“A baby, a baby, a baby!” he muttered as he paged through his almanac.

From Literature