stammer
Example Sentences
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But this stammering, rather dull chap doesn’t come across as a genius.
From Los Angeles Times
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.”
That’s why, despite all of our biological programming and lived experience, a random question or interaction with a child will sometimes knock you on your back and leave you stammering.
From Salon
In interviews, she openly admitted to feeling inadequate in her signature halting, circular stammers.
From Los Angeles Times
German football giant Borussia Dortmund has apologised after appearing to mock a woman from Wales with a stammer in a video posted on the club's TikTok account.
From BBC
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