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

"I feel like having a stammer makes you a good listener and it kind of helps me to be able to just watch a little bit more," she says.

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 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

While Erika decries “retro sex negativity,” Elliot stammers, “My peers have not been well-served growing up in a time where nothing feels safe or OK.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

“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

"I've had lots of people with stammers reach out, which is just really nice," says Jessie.

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 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

“What? What are you talking about?” he stammers as he scrambles out to face me.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

The clip featured 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. 19, 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

“Oh yes, yes!” stammered Darius, casting an almost reverent glance at Mo. “Is that him?”

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

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

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

We loved him as the stammering bookseller who captures Julia Roberts’ heart in “Notting Hill” or the feckless non-marrying type in “Four Weddings and a Funeral.”

From Salon ● May 11, 2024

Still when winter came he could speak only with a stammering tongue, and the Master Herbal kept him there in the healing-chambers, trying to lead his body and mind gradually back to strength.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin