slurred
Example Sentences
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“As a physician I couldn’t deny that I had slurred speech, that I was having weakness on one side,” she said, “but I was like, ‘Well, this is a dream, right?’”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
He skipped over and slurred words as he tried to maintain an artificially quick tempo.
From Slate • Feb. 24, 2026
In the episode, Dane’s speech is noticeably slurred, and he sits in a motorized wheelchair while speaking to Falchuk.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026
Mr. Massie, whose slurred accent sounds at once Scottish, English and French, possesses the sort of old-world education presently facing extinction.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
It was a not unbewitching sound, a mix of flute and bassoon, my consonants slightly slurred, a rush and breathiness to most of my pronouncements.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
