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

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

I loathed myself for not putting Ross Wilcox in his place about speaking German, but it’d’ve been death to’ve started stammering back there.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell