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

Meanwhile, the resentful girl struggles to label Tim’s role, stammering to Jamie that she lives with, “my partner, my Tim, my boy-partner Tim.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 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

Then we return to Clay stammering: “I thought you wanted one? No?”

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2024

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

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