mutter
Example Sentences
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As we lay in bed together reading, my sighs and muttering about “frickin’ three cliches in one paragraph” caused her to throw sideways glances my way.
From Los Angeles Times
When Musk makes the same prediction, analysts roll their eyes and mutter about missed timelines.
From MarketWatch
But I could still hear her muttering to herself.
From Literature
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“After overhearing a passionate ideological dispute around her own kitchen table between the future Nobel laureate for literature and his radical friends from the University of Chicago, she muttered: ‘Smart, smart, smart.
As I’m spinning my combo lock, I mutter, “J, I’m sorry about earlier.”
From Literature
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.