stammer

Example Sentences

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

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026

Jessie Stride, another contestant on this series of The Traitors, has a stammer and spoke on the show about struggling to pronounce her own name.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 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

Jessie, who raises awareness of speech impediments, routinely gets millions of views on her TikTok videos about her stammer.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2025

“Oh no, miss, we—we—” one of the other guards started to stammer.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix