mumbling

Example Sentences

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Exiting the event, Shulman shuffled out with the crowd, headed next to a TikTok Grammys party, mumbling to a fellow attendee that his company seemed to be “persona non grata.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

To test this idea, the researchers combined self-directed internal speech, described as quiet "mumbling," with a specialized working memory system.

From Science Daily • Jan. 28, 2026

There is part of me that wants to be happy about this mission, like Coleman is, instead of sourly mumbling about how the rocket is going up, and then back down.

From Slate • Apr. 11, 2025

Stevenson seemed to deliberately deflect attention from Stephen’s words, mumbling lines as though they were the character’s private property and not meant to be spoken aloud.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2025

Bruno took a step back and whimpered, mumbling, “Trolls, filthy trolls, cursed trolls.”

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff