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

Jessie Stride, another contestant on this series of The Traitors, has a stammer and spoke on the show about struggling to pronounce her own name.

From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026

For people like Hayley Rawlings, from Newport, who has had a stammer since she was four, this is a familiar feeling.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026

I shake my head and let the truth stammer out.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

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

In interviews, she openly admitted to feeling inadequate in her signature halting, circular stammers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025

“I … I … I can’t ….go to work,” one stammers in German.

From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2024

My sister raises one perfectly plucked eyebrow while Andre stammers.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

I stammered inane commentary as my eyes tried to refocus.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025

Then, after he thanked his family, his co-workers, and HBO, the internet’s favorite bachelor daddy stammered, “I’m going to have a panic attack and I’m going to leave.”

From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2024

He looked away, stammered and mumbled “I don’t know” before appearing to turn toward the person running the session for some help.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2023

"He stammered and asked us not to misinterpret his intentions," she says.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2023

“M-my Lord,” stammered the goblin, its black eyes wide with terror, “m-my Lord...we t-tried t-to st-stop them....Im-impostors, my Lord...broke—broke into the—into the Lestranges’ v-vault....”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

This sends the oh-so-polite Higgins into a stammering fit: “Not similar. Sorry. What happened here was much worse. Much, much worse. Much, much, much, much, much, I can’t stop saying much for some reason.”

From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026

But this stammering, rather dull chap doesn’t come across as a genius.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025

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

A leading charity said there was an "ignorance around stammering" which can "result in a range of responses from suspicion of lying, to laugher and ridicule".

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2025

‘There is nothing, Lady Galadriel,’ said Gimli, bowing low and stammering.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien