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
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
"I feel like having a stammer makes you a good listener and it kind of helps me to be able to just watch a little bit more," she says.
From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026
For people like Hayley Rawlings, from Newport, who has had a stammer since she was four, this is a familiar feeling.
From BBC • Jan. 12, 2026
I didn’t like what this did to my interactions, the way my presence sometimes caused people to stammer or go silent, unsure of how to be themselves.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Vocabulary lists containing stammer
"My Favorite Chaperone," Vocabulary from the short story
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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