stammering

Example Sentences

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The stammering from the first date became full-blown speechlessness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 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 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

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

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2024

I sat stunned, hand still reaching toward the pillow where the envelope had been, stammering, “I... I mean ... I wasn’t...”

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot