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How to use stammer in a sentence

21 example sentences · verb, noun

Stammer means to keep repeating a particular sound involuntarily during speech. Example: “He blushed, and stammered a few words of apology.”

Examples of stammer by meaning

verbTo utter with a stammer, or with timid hesitancy.

  • He blushed, and stammered a few words of apology.
  • But I could scarcely stammer them out.1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xi

nounThe involuntary repetition of a sound in speech.

  • She said goodbye in a stammer.

More sentences with stammer

  • The best man balled up his speech, stammering and tripping over his words.From the entry ball up
  • I feared most of all a loss of identity, that C. would become 'the one who stammers'".2012 December 6, M. M. Leahy, T. Stewart, “Idiopathic Stuttering Onset in Adults”, in Yvan Lebrun, editor, From the Brain to the Mouth…. From the entry Kellian
  • That's not true — he — wait just a —” stammered Fancy.2008, Allan Michael Hardin, Sidetracked, page 48. From the entry tell it to the judge
  • "My name," he said, "is Hercule Poirot." "Not," the Commissary stammered, "not the Hercule Poirot?"1928, Agatha Christie, The Mystery of the Blue Train. From the entry the
  • “Judas priest!” he stammered, for here was his right-hand man as good as dead.1919, George Allan England, Cursed, page 67. From the entry Judas Priest
  • It's also believed that anyone who bites a seg will develop an impediment of speech, such as a stammer.2019, Roy Vickery, Vickery's Folk Flora, page lxxiii. From the entry seg
  • “That’s the first time you’ve mentioned your mother,” Cindy stammered.2017, Joanne Bunyak, On Hunter’s Point, Xlibris, →ISBN. From the entry babcia
  • Translation: there's still some hope for you, poor stammering blighter.2012 March 27, David Seidler, “The King's Speech play: At last, my crowning moment...”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 27 Dec 2012. From the entry blighter
  • All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech.2012 [2011], Jeanette Winterson, Why be Happy When You Could be Normal?, Bath: Windsor, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry deep-dive
  • Then, before the girl could stammer her disbelief, Ms.1975 December 11, Geoffrey Brown, “People Are Talking About”, in Jet, page 50. From the entry black don't crack
  • It is a stammered, sleazy chronicle, told by fits and starts in bits and pieces, and constantly interrupted by the director and actors.1955 December 26, “Old Play in Manhattan”, in Time. From the entry fits and starts
  • Lisping, stuttering, stammering, lallation, nunnation and sigmatism, paragammacism and paralambdacism are but few of the locutory evils encountered, much too frequently in adolescents and adults.1910, Walter A. Wells, “The hygienic, economic and sociologic aspect of the throat”, in The Laryngoscope, volume 20, number 1, →DOI, pages…. From the entry paralambdacism
  • Douglas steams and stammers, a typical film noir heel, while Stone delivers her dialogue with the devilish gleam of a sly actor having a great time.2022 March 20, Jason Bailey, “‘Basic Instinct’ at 30: A Time Capsule That Can Still Offend”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry heel
  • We die, oh, we die and enter the ungloriful land where we have no purpose and wander about separated from anything we knew in life," stammered a tearful Bombylious.2007, W. Schmitz, Planets Against Us- Grues and Kins, page 61. From the entry ungloriful
  • Fun is the doughboy's pal—that's why he wrote and sings "K-K-K-Katy"—the song of songs, with a zippy, catchy melody and those beautifully simple words stammered by Katy's tongue-tied beau.1918 September 7, “Three Hits from Song Headquarters [advertisement]”, in John C[hristian] Freund, editor, The Music Trades, volume LVI…. From the entry zippy
  • "I c-can't he'p myse'f," stammered Celia; "you say such frightful things to me—you tell me that they happen in my own house—in her own room—How can I be calm?1910, Robert W. Chambers, Ailsa Paige. From the entry daid
  • Still looking lost and confused, Clive scratched his butt-chin, looked me in the eye with both pupils constricted, and full of uncertainty, he stammered as he fired yet another question.2011, C. Lazarus, Father on the Loose!. From the entry butt chin
  • A woman answered, and the senior companion threw a book past her into the house and then ran, leaving the greenie to stammer out an explanation to the irate woman.1981, William Albert Wilson, On Being Human: The Folklore of Mormon Missionaries, volumes 60-66, page 9. From the entry greenie

Meaning of stammer

  1. verb To keep repeating a particular sound involuntarily during speech.
  2. verb To utter with a stammer, or with timid hesitancy.
  3. noun The involuntary repetition of a sound in speech.

Full definition of stammer

Questions about stammer in a sentence

How do you use stammer in a sentence?
Stammer is used as a verb and noun. For example: “He blushed, and stammered a few words of apology.”
What is a short sentence with stammer?
“She said goodbye in a stammer.”
What does stammer mean?
Stammer means to keep repeating a particular sound involuntarily during speech.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stammer (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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