stammer

Hansen would then make a dramatic entrance and interrogate the men, who would often stammer and bumble through the encounter before leaving.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

Now, Gellar has made a more ceremonious return, albeit with a frustrating stop-and-start stammer.

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2026

The hairdresser doesn't feel her game was impacted by her stammer as the other contestants would be patient and allow her to speak her mind.

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026

After an intentionally pregnant pause, Robyn’s vocal is chopped and edited into a confused stammer before she resumes the song’s mantra: “I-I-I, I like to go out, wear something nice and push!”

From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2026

“Esteban Garda. Don’t you remember me, patron?” the other managed to stammer.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

Hayley said people with stammers were often mocked or villainised in the media and sometimes portrayed as having them as a result of trauma.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026

Britt stammers in response: “I don’t always—you know, yes, I cook Sunday nights for dinner, but I was about to say, I don’t always crush it.”

From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2025

In interviews, she openly admitted to feeling inadequate in her signature halting, circular stammers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025

“I … I … I can’t ….go to work,” one stammers in German.

From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2024

Jacques stammers, backs away from him slowly, and then turns and runs inside to get me.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

“Well, we really need to look at that,” Bass stammered before asking Raman if she was “getting ready to resign” from them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

The clip showed influencer Jessie Yendle struggling to pronounce a sound as she stammered, before the repetition transitioned into the start of a popular TikTok dance track playing over footage of striker Serhou Guirassy.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2025

“I don’t think the American people are watching and thinking any of these people won,” Watters stammered out.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2024

Often speaking in Tajik through a translator, he answered questions about his biography quietly and stammered, according to Mediazona.

From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2024

Among the trees the wood pigeons called drowsily and from time to time a late cuckoo stammered.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Smith, as you might expect, was confused by this line of questioning, stammering that he didn’t recall attending any Hawks games.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

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

That can include difficulties with learning new words, understanding non-verbal cues or stammering during speech.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 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

At this the roach rushed up like a hen, burst into tears, and began stammering its message.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White