stammering

Example Sentences

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But this stammering, rather dull chap doesn’t come across as a genius.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

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

We loved him as the stammering bookseller who captures Julia Roberts’ heart in “Notting Hill” or the feckless non-marrying type in “Four Weddings and a Funeral.”

From Salon • May 11, 2024

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

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2024

Aech must have thought I was brown-nosing, because she snickered throughout my stammering monologue, but Og was very cool about it.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline