stammering
Example Sentences
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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
That can include difficulties with learning new words, understanding non-verbal cues or stammering during speech.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2025
And everyone’s like — ,” says Yeoh as she makes stammering noises.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2025
That does, however, make it all the more difficult to look at America and resist the temptation to give one last stammering cry of, “That’s all folks!”
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025
Red-faced boys appeared at my desk, stammering, “Y-y-you dropped your eraser.”
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
