muttered
Example Sentences
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"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
Head in hands, eight-year-old Timmy muttered to himself as he tried to beat a robot powered by artificial intelligence at a game of chess.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2025
The servant muttered something about rats and left.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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