stammering

Example Sentences

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The stammering from the first date became full-blown speechlessness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026

After one of his sketches, the actual Sid Caesar might ever so briefly, in a stammering voice, appear before a commercial break to say: “We’ll be right back.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Offstage, he was a doddering, stammering dad shuffling around rooms bustling with yapping tiny dogs urinating everywhere.

From Salon • Jul. 24, 2025

Then we return to Clay stammering: “I thought you wanted one? No?”

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2024

He couldn’t stop stammering his thanks, sounding just like Professor Quirrell.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling