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Example sentences for "stammering"

Lexicographically close words:
staminibus; stammer; stammered; stammerer; stammerers; stammeringly; stammers; stamp; stampe; stamped
  1. Mr. Pouncet grew graver than before; he raised his head a little from the papers over which he was bending, and spoke with the greatest hesitation, clearing his throat and stammering at every word.

  2. After a minute's interval, turning very red, and stammering out, "Miss Scarsdale?

  3. Joe tore his eyes from indignant Tessie to stammering Mr. Bill.

  4. It seemed to Joe that he was just stammering to gain time.

  5. Pre-eminent success in the education and treatment of stammering and other speech defects.

  6. In a stammering and intoxicated voice he murmured,-- "Who ran to catch me when I fell, And kissed the place to make it well?

  7. Here is the first stammering of infant painting.

  8. Then did they hold their peace, although indeed Her stammering haste they did not fail to heed.

  9. Christophe, stammering with rage; "will they rob us of our property that we have purchased with our blood?

  10. And he was not a man who, in speaking, had any stammering of tongue.

  11. It was Hiram's remembrance of Pepper's stammering when he spoke about the option.

  12. He bent over my hand, stammering out words of thanks and promises of devotion and invocations of blessings in such quantities that I began to feel quite pleased with myself, and as though I had been doing a virtuous deed.

  13. The "friar of orders grey" obeyed my hasty summons, and I accepted his arm with very great empressement, stammering some excuse to the sable domino in the doorway, and walked down the hall.

  14. She could not avoid asking me to sit down, which I did, slipping into the first chair I reached, and stammering out something about thinking she was lonely, and that she might be glad of company for a little while.

  15. Mannheim was stuttering and stammering and trying to reply.

  16. Uneasy under his scrutiny she made a great effort to raise her heavy lids and to smile: and she said, stammering a little like a waking child: "Don't look at me.

  17. I wouldn't say that altogether," said Brian, stammering a little.

  18. The stammering earnestness of his voice, those humbly adoring looks!

  19. With a sort of pleasure she saw a look of bewilderment cover that old face; with a sort of pleasure she marked the trembling of the hands raising their owner from the chair; and heard the stammering in the voice: "You are going?

  20. Either you or I," he said at last, stammering with passion, "must leave this room!

  21. He was astonished at his fluency, because his mind was stammering and his hands twitching.

  22. Gervaise received the lecture with bowed head and stammering excuses.

  23. Then she in her turn went off, after stammering a few polite words: she hoped to see them again, and that they would all agree well together.

  24. Often, when she stopped in front of a jeweler's shop, she heard him stammering something behind her.

  25. Gervaise, deeply affected, moved especially by the thought that she was about to enter a place full of gold, stood behind the zinc-worker, stammering and venturing upon nods of her head by way of bowing.

  26. Pas si bete," she answered, stammering fearfully, and looking the prettier for it.

  27. He was evidently a trifle shy and embarrassed, stammering a little as he offered his services to superintend the pitching of their camp, with eyes that would wander from the elder cousin to Diana's small, impish, alluring face.

  28. She had not spoken six words in her quick, hot, stammering whisper before he lifted a hand and said authoritatively: "Stop!


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stammering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.