stammer

Hansen would then make a dramatic entrance and interrogate the men, who would often stammer and bumble through the encounter before leaving.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

Now, Gellar has made a more ceremonious return, albeit with a frustrating stop-and-start stammer.

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2026

Hayley, 34, said Jessie being good at the game and her stammer not being the focus gave people "something to relate to".

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026

The 28-year-old has a stammer and in episode one said introducing herself was "one of the biggest tests ever".

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026

“I don’t know, sir,” the chaplain answered diplomatically, with an uneasy stammer.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

“So I’m trying to like, I don’t know. Somebody who works out all the time and has a different type of, I don’t know,” he stammers.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026

Hayley said people with stammers were often mocked or villainised in the media and sometimes portrayed as having them as a result of trauma.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026

Britt stammers in response: “I don’t always—you know, yes, I cook Sunday nights for dinner, but I was about to say, I don’t always crush it.”

From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2025

“I know what it means to be cold and hungry,” Hackman stammers as his Harold the blind man ushers Peter Boyle’s monster into his shack.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025

“Umm, well,” Molly stammers, beginning to wonder the same thing, “I rang the buzzer a few times and then I just let myself in.”

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

The clip showed influencer Jessie Yendle struggling to pronounce a sound as she stammered, before the repetition transitioned into the start of a popular TikTok dance track playing over footage of striker Serhou Guirassy.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2025

I stammered inane commentary as my eyes tried to refocus.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025

“Tim, I'm focused on the future,” Vance stammered before an ineffective attempt to deflect.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2024

Often speaking in Tajik through a translator, he answered questions about his biography quietly and stammered, according to Mediazona.

From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2024

For the world called to the heart, which stammered to reply; life, and love, and revelry, and, most falsely, hope, called the forgetful, the human heart.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

Smith, as you might expect, was confused by this line of questioning, stammering that he didn’t recall attending any Hawks games.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

Frazier’s natural skill as an “Entertainment Tonight” host helped smooth the transitions to Malkin’s stammering and distracting voice, but their worthless gushing detracted from the moment.

From Salon ● Jan. 12, 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

The humanity Stamp imbued in the tragic, stammering naval vessel crewman established Stamp as a talent to watch — with a Golden Globe Award for best male newcomer to prove it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2025

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

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