- 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
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
And everyone’s like — ,” says Yeoh as she makes stammering noises.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 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
If he’d tried to say anything, could he have gotten the words out without snorting or belching or stammering or doing something else that made him seem like a total dork?
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
