muttered

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Francisco de Quevedo drank in long-gone watering holes where Luis de Góngora muttered his verse.

From Salon • Jun. 23, 2026

Levy brings a soft-spoken breathlessness you may recognize from his David Rose on “Schitt’s”; his softly muttered “OK,” which might just mean “stop talking,” is almost a trademark.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026

"Hoodlums," muttered 80-year-old village chief Joseph Batangouna as he walked past a group of young people sitting by the side of road in Mayitoukou, Congo-Brazzaville.

From Barron's • Mar. 14, 2026

“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 • Dec. 17, 2025

The boy muttered something that sounded like “S’ortal.”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell