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

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

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

I said stammering, not meaning Tibe but Thessicher, whose betrayal was of a friend.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin