stammer

Example Sentences

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But this stammering, rather dull chap doesn’t come across as a genius.

From Los Angeles Times

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

Andy looks like a human adult but behaves like an awkward, stammering middle-schooler eager to ingratiate himself with his peers by telling toothless jokes straight out of a Scholastic pun manual.

From Salon