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

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

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

“Oh, well, actually, it’s not her cells being put into people’s eyes,” I said, stammering.

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