muttered
Example Sentences
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At that point during the hearing, Darren Coates - one of Ian's sons - muttered "damn right".
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026
"Hoodlums," muttered 80-year-old village chief Joseph Batangouna as he walked past a group of young people sitting by the side of road in Mayitoukou, Congo-Brazzaville.
From Barron's • Mar. 14, 2026
“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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
I muttered my song again: “Flying in circles for 90 minutes somewhere near Rochester.”
From Salon • Jul. 18, 2025
“The problem is that these are only designed to carry two sets of cuffs at the most,” she muttered under her breath as she attached one set to each hip.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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