stammered

“I don’t want to be in it,” he stammered.

“How...where...how did...,” it stammered, then abruptly started howling and stomping its feet.

Often speaking in Tajik through a translator, he answered questions about his biography quietly and stammered, according to Mediazona.

Then, after he thanked his family, his co-workers, and HBO, the internet’s favorite bachelor daddy stammered, “I’m going to have a panic attack and I’m going to leave.”

Before a mission, for instance, John reaches out to brush a lock of Jane’s hair off her face – a standard rom-com move, along with her stammered reply that she’s not interested in anything sensual.