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

And everyone’s like — ,” says Yeoh as she makes stammering noises.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2025

Andy looks like a human adult but behaves like an awkward, stammering middle-schooler eager to ingratiate himself with his peers by telling toothless jokes straight out of a Scholastic pun manual.

From Salon • Aug. 26, 2024

Then we return to Clay stammering: “I thought you wanted one? No?”

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2024

Red-faced boys appeared at my desk, stammering, “Y-y-you dropped your eraser.”

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides