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    1. And then one lunchtime into Virgenia's strode the bus driver with the stammer


    2. Terry managed to stammer out a high-pitched "Course not", and then he just stood there frozen with embarrassment as the dog played keepie-uppie with all four paws


    3. Terry managed to stammer out a high-


    4. Victoria seemed a little put off by this question and tried unsuccessfully not to stammer


    5. Now his face was lobster red as a blush of shame covered his face and neck and he tried to stammer out a few words but failed miserably and his mouth just opened and shut like a ventriloquist’s dummy


    6. My face turned beetroot red at this comment but I managed to stammer out another thank you before I left the Intack and headed for home


    7. The old man started in recognition, paled a bit, but managed to stammer that he’d never seen the man in the photograph before


    8. He tried to speak but could only stammer a half-strangled, "Ah


    9. She thought of his stammer, “Oh, b-b-baby, I’m c-c-c-coming!”


    10. We are, we are travelers only, we are seeking, we are passing through,” Argyle managed to stammer out

    11. "I don’t have it right now," usually in a stammer


    12. Eighteen years ago she had sat behind it one spring twilight and heard young Martin Crawford stammer out a confession of fervent, boyish love


    13. Only a few knew how badly I stammer when the most precious treasures of heaven are before me


    14. ” She couldn’t stop the stammer, flowing as it was from his mind to hers, but her tone was low, unlike his


    15. ” The scribe wished he’d sounded stronger, but his stammer under pressure couldn’t be helped


    16. All I could do was stammer


    17. “D-did you…? Did you…?” he managed to stammer out


    18. “Hear me,” he said, the stammer gone now, “hear me and understand what I say


    19. I don't know where to begin,” he said with a slight stammer


    20. We can really only stammer about the existence of the Personal SELF and Cosmic

    21. Kreios was about to stammer something futile again, when a sudden realization caused a


    22. complete confusion and tried to stammer out an objection


    23. " The youth was almost overcome, but he managed to stammer out, "But -- I did not ask you for anything -- " And Jesus, laying a gentle hand on his shoulder, said: "No, son, not with words but with longing looks did you appeal to my heart


    24. `What- how-' she heard the stammer


    25. The betrayer was well-nigh breathless and highly distraught, but he managed to stammer out these words: "I have sinned in that I have betrayed innocent blood


    26. ‘Thanks, sir!’ she managed to stammer out as her best response to his patronising flattery


    27. “Th-th-thanks,” Henry could barely stammer as his breath was dry and short


    28. Jos tried to say something, but could only stammer meaningless sounds


    29. was my lifelong stammer, but now I saw I had ignored a central metaphor of the


    30. No, I simply gave him a gueling two hour �job interview�, and gauged his merits as I watched him stammer

    31. I mean…,” was all that Rheus could stammer


    32. Suddenly, and acutely, aware of the events of last night, as well as their interlocked arms, John could only stammer, “W…Wha?”


    33. Absolutely flummoxed and moved by the show of support, Norah could only stammer


    34. Before Loken could stammer a thanks, she’d twittered off again


    35. Elizabeth feared he would stammer but he didn't


    36. Sure… that would be… great!” I managed to stammer out


    37. Eugene turns the pad sideways and tries not to stammer out something that can in no way express how fantastic the more animalistic part of his brain finds her sketches


    38. "You mustn't stammer," she told him


    39. And he would begin to stammer


    40. The boy started to stammer but the Cook raised his hand from his shoulder, palm facing him to stop him

    41. Stammer: To make involuntary stops and repetitions in speaking


    42. The situation was so unbearable that he began to stammer and


    43. He began to stammer apologies, but stopped; both mother and daughter were glaring at him with the same, and all too familiar, puff-angry face


    44. From his opponents rabid readiness, a grim chuckle shovels red fuel into the hot-wheel, as suddenly with a horned-hippo leap, he climbs into his opponent, the restless vendetta between the two, a feel good hatred, a hurricane, a black coat of insult, a boorish stammer


    45. Before Maria could stammer out something Elon smoothly said, “Maria and I have partnered up and your legendary hospitality is reason enough to come unexpectedly


    46. The look in his eyes made me stammer


    47. Kyle tried to stammer out an


    48. He began to stammer as his mind raced to catch up with reality


    49. “But if you didn’t create the city, how is it that you were there in the Chamber, how have you become part of this?” Immediately she began to stammer and apologize, “I, I, I’m sorry


    50. "They all stammer, don't they?"






























    1. He stammered and opened his mouth, but then shut it again and turned away


    2. He stammered and stuttered, trying to think of what to say


    3. why are you here?’ I stammered, shivering slightly, as he sits me on the bed while he goes over to turn on the bedside lamp


    4. " Tahlmute stammered, but was walking toward him


    5. ‘But …’ I stammered appalled at the thought of what might have happened


    6. ’ I stammered wondering how he heard


    7. ‘What for?’ I had stammered, not at all certain why he was saying this, pulling back a little so I could see him better


    8. The more he drank, the less he stammered


    9. He stammered, looked directly at the boy, then lowered his voice to sing, 'And you might have been my son


    10. “He…he should’ve said something”, stammered her husband, as around him one judge after another jeered and called him every sort of stupid ass that their imaginations could conjure up

    11. ‘Jessie …’ I stammered ashamed - considering our conversation in the pub the other week she’d have every reason to be off with me - but she gives me a warm hug


    12. “It’s all rot and hot air,” he stammered


    13. “He…he should’ve said something”, stammered her husband, as


    14. “The cells themselves,” she stammered, “there were still the same kind and number, shonggot just erases the connection weights


    15. ” Harry stammered looking from one to the next of his smiling family


    16. ’ Andy stammered, his mouth watering at the thought of food


    17. It sounded horribly sordid, like something from one of the more sensationalist soap operas to Andy’s ears as he stammered out his story


    18. ‘Angie …’ he stammered, desperate not to lose her now – that would be worse than anything that had gone before


    19. 'Do you know who you’re speaking to?' stammered the


    20. ’ He stammered, obviously upset

    21. "I do?" She stammered over the thought of suddenly owning two homes, she who had never owned anything


    22. " Emma stammered out


    23. He stammered a bit, then forged ahead


    24. ?" the words stammered from her lips


    25. "Oh," she stammered "I had for—" when the line went silent once again, Emma considered asking if she’d prefer to change her reservation, but before she could ask, Mrs


    26. stammered ‘What did you say to him?’


    27. ” Tetloan stammered, knowing his healing skills were more than a little bit lacking


    28. of diesel,’ she stammered


    29. YM: "But, but, you said you'd be grateful if I helped you" stammered the young man


    30. Good," Alec stammered

    31. "What's that about?" Desa stammered


    32. Floored, the leprechaun stammered, "once or twice a month?"


    33. “Nuska, wait – stop! I can’t do this! I’m in love with Helez,” he stammered hoarsely


    34. recruit only stammered and cleared his throat awkwardly, eyes huge and dashing to and fro in nervousness


    35. Still shaking, they stammered nearly without pause


    36. “Buh…what?” Brynjolf stammered, one eyebrow sharply raised and his normally level mouth a tad crooked from confusion and drink


    37. And she listened as Maro eventually overcame his awestruck state and stammered in reply


    38. “I…well…” Penelope winced and stammered


    39. into this room, mate" the CEO stammered


    40. His heart stammered wildly for more than an hour afterward

    41. My reply was an honest and stammered “I don’t know


    42. Victoria’s mouth actually popped open for a second before she stammered and said, “But why?”


    43. Glen stammered as a grunting sound came from within the grave, the hand grasping at the edge of the dirt cavern


    44. It was about an hour later when the nurse came back to change my dressings and it all went well until she came to the one covering the wound in my groin and I blushed like a beetroot and stammered out that I thought the dressing would be alright and didn’t need changing


    45. The Dr who was still looking shocked stammered


    46. “Yes,” Pamela stammered, shocked at his attitude about


    47. “Our meeting,” she stammered, “we’ll just


    48. He stammered, “Where is Rex?”


    49. of the radio stammered out an apology


    50. “Big Red is registered,” she stammered, pressing a trembling hand to her throat









































    1. He was a big sweaty man, spluttering and stammering in his rant


    2. ' I was stammering


    3. ’ He said, stammering over the words as he impatiently held the door open


    4. Jesse looked as if she were seeing a miracle, stammering she started the same way Jim had the Saturday before


    5. He looked at me and I saw that he was weighing me up but he didn’t like what he saw and he started stammering


    6. stammering a “Y-yes” and throwing up a silent thank-you to an overpopulated daycare and a sudden surge in Spokane’s divorce rate


    7. "I--I came for a drink," she said, stammering a little, in answer to Mr


    8. line on line; here a little, and there a little: 11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people


    9. A stammering Trevor could only mouth, “Keep them, Derek,


    10. creeping creature of the earth, a leech, a stammering infant

    11. Samson sensed the older boy‘s discomfort with his stammering, especially after Sam‘s machine gun delivery of his story


    12. apparent by his stammering that Robert had a severe case of the


    13. ” You said; stammering


    14. One minute she was stammering while trying to find a response the next she was sitting there slack jawed with a blank expression


    15. and contorted in terror when he decided that his stammering fit might bore Spartan


    16. Stammering and endlessly repeating ourselves, we manage to reach a degree of understanding


    17. He started stammering, �But� but, how did you� you didn�t know��


    18. was the convulsing man and he was stammering


    19. ” Chunkmonk said to both of them, who were stammering speechless, mouths moving without sound, like ghosts mute to flesh


    20. jail, because he started stammering and trying to think of something to

    21. Callie stood there another few seconds, stammering out protests


    22. "I meant his stammering


    23. He waited, enjoying to the utmost Adorno’s stammering indignation and appall


    24. We moved out with torches in hand to go and find the stammering youth who was looking after our horses


    25. When this poor lisping, stammering tongue


    26. � At the time, I saw it not as search but ineptitude, simple and stupid stumbling and stammering


    27. � As Eugene O'Neill wrote in Long Day's Journey Into Night, "Stammering is the native eloquence of us fog people


    28. The stammering aide could only shake his head, as horns rang throughout the camp calling for the assembly of the army


    29. And now with him there I was stammering, losing sight and having a cardiac failure


    30. “What should I say?” I was stammering folowing her to the ground

    31. The boy from your class gave it to me” she answered stammering with fear, tears roling down her cheeks


    32. ” She said stammering and crying, her face on my chest and her hands around my waist


    33. “Why… why… you let the Ancient out,” she said, stammering


    34. servations stammering has to do with the breach in Vishuddha or with


    35. " he began, stammering


    36. "Yes," she said stammering; "I am just coming from the nurse where my child is


    37. But soon recalling herself to the necessities of the situation, with an effort she shook off the torpor of her memories, and began stammering a few hurried words


    38. "Why? What ceremony?" Then, in a stammering, frightened voice, "Oh, no! not that


    39. "You have found me in a strange position, Liza," I began, stammering and knowing that this was the wrong way to begin


    40. He raised his missile to hurl it; I commenced a soothing speech, but could not stay his hand: the stone struck my bonnet; and then ensued, from the stammering lips of the little fellow, a string of curses, which, whether he comprehended them or not, were delivered with practised emphasis, and distorted his baby features into a shocking expression of malignity

    41. “The question, I think,” says Reagan, again stammering, “should be enlarged


    42. Tess, who had been quite unconscious of her action and mien, instantly withdrew the large dark gaze of her eyes, stammering with a flush, "I beg your pardon!" And there was revived in her the wretched sentiment which had often come to her before, that in inhabiting the fleshly tabernacle with which Nature had endowed her she was somehow doing wrong


    43. Brooke, whose masculine consciousness was at this moment in rather a stammering condition under the eloquence of his niece


    44. Stuttering, stammering, squirming as if his skin were two sizes too small


    45. "Yes," she said stammering; "I am just coming from the nurse


    46. ‘Dear Brothers,’ he began, blushing and stammering, with a written speech in his hand, ‘it is not sufficient to observe our mysteries in the seclusion of our lodge- we must act- act! We are drowsing, but we must act


    47. She spoke thus, rent in twain, shaken with sobs, blinded with tears, her neck bare, wringing her hands, and coughing with a dry, short cough, stammering softly with a voice of agony


    48. While he was discussing this modest dinner, he had, twice or thrice, noticed in a confused way, Toussaint's stammering words as she said to him: "Monsieur, there is something going on, they are fighting in Paris


    49. This was so new an attention, so perfectly new a circumstance in the events of Fanny’s life, that she was all surprise and embarrassment; and while stammering out her great obligation, and her “but she did not suppose it would be in her power,” was looking at Edmund for his opinion and help


    50. This was so new an attention, so perfectly new a circumstance in the events of Fanny's life, that she was all surprise and embarrassment; and while stammering out her great obligation, and her "but she did not suppose it would be in her power," was looking at Edmund for his opinion and help










    1. He stammers to a halt


    2. “Except at the start when old Stammers started, he didn’t miss a word!” Said Mary


    3. President Obama is the ultimate actor with a prompter, but without one he stammers and stutters as he struggles with his cognitive abilities


    4. "B-b-b," he stammers, "but what about—"


    5. “The dogs, the cruel d-dogs,” he stammers


    6. “Did-did you give me the knife?” he stammers out, ashamed of his weakness in front of this villager


    7. �No, n-nothing� stammers Steve seeming to lose all confidence


    8. ” stammers Paris; “Where shall I put these weeds?” she asks holding the bucket so that Sharon can see it is full


    9. “You’re still alive,” she stammers


    10. the body that stammers and cries,

    11. “Well, I have been having a bit of issues of my own,” she calms down and stammers


    12. “You’re not – not angry about it?” he stammers


    13. He stammers and he's lame


    14. It's not exactly that she stammers, but she can't speak plainly


    15. and it's only the eldest one that stammers and the others are simply ill


    16. He deposited the quid in his gob and, chewing and with some slow stammers,


    17. I have read a great deal of Plato, but nothing of it remains by me; better than Malebranche and then Lamennais thou didst demonstrate to me celestial goodness with a flower which thou gavest to me, I obeyed thee, thou didst submit to me; oh gilded garret! to lace thee! to behold thee going and coming from dawn in thy chemise, gazing at thy young brow in thine ancient mirror! And who, then, would forego the memory of those days of aurora and the firmament, of flowers, of gauze and of moire, when love stammers a charming slang? Our gardens consisted of a pot of tulips; thou didst mask the window with thy petticoat; I took the earthenware bowl and I gave thee the Japanese cup


    18. He stammers and he’s lame


    19. It’s not exactly that she stammers, but she can’t speak plainly


    20. And there are seven children … and it’s only the eldest one that stammers and the others are simply ill … but they don’t stammer…

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    Synonyms for "stammer"

    stammer stutter bumble falter stumble hesitate pause hammer

    "stammer" definitions

    a speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds


    speak haltingly