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

Offstage, he was a doddering, stammering dad shuffling around rooms bustling with yapping tiny dogs urinating everywhere.

From Salon • Jul. 24, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2025

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

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 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