- present participle of stammer.
stammering
Example Sentences
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After one of his sketches, the actual Sid Caesar might ever so briefly, in a stammering voice, appear before a commercial break to say: “We’ll be right back.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
Before the premiere, they were chauffeured around in festival-sponsored BMWs and now their friends are stammering how much they like their shoes.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2025
A leading charity said there was an "ignorance around stammering" which can "result in a range of responses from suspicion of lying, to laugher and ridicule".
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2025
That does, however, make it all the more difficult to look at America and resist the temptation to give one last stammering cry of, “That’s all folks!”
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025
Patria had come in, acting very nervous, stammering about those boxes being full of new tools.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
