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How to use stuttering in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun, adjective

Stuttering means a speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by involuntary repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables, words or phrases, and by involuntary silent pauses or blocks in which the stutterer is unable to produce sounds. Example: “I was stuttering after the marathon.”

Examples of stuttering by meaning

adjectiveHesitant.

  • Relieved Chelsea halted their worst run of form since 1999 as a stuttering victory over Bolton gave the champions a first league win in seven matches2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC

More sentences with stuttering

  • I was stuttering after the marathon.From the entry stutter
  • Another mistaken impression is that covert stuttering is just a mild form of stuttering.2006, Dale F. Williams, Stuttering Recovery: Personal and Empirical Perspectives, →ISBN, page 151. From the entry covert stuttering
  • Covert stuttering is characterized by accessory features such as word substitutions, interjections, and stopping.1991, Kerry E. Lewis, “The Structure of Disfluency Behaviors in the Speech of Adult Stutterers,”, in Journal of Speech, Language and…. From the entry covert stuttering
  • Joseph Sheehan discusses relapse and rerecovery from stuttering in Chapter 6.1985, Asha: A Journal of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. From the entry rerecovery
  • "er" and "um" and word repetitions was used as part of the stuttering symptomatology by two subjects.1983, The South African Journal of Communication Disorders. From the entry embolophrasia
  • The incidence of stuttering is extremely high among dyslexiacs and the other types of speech defects are also fairly common.1946, The Scope, volumes 17-20, page 6. From the entry dyslexiac
  • The author refers the case of a teenager, eighteen years old, suffering from stuttering and boltering along with symptoms of anxiety, shakings and sweats.1978, Rivista internazionale di psicologia e ipnosi - Volumes 19-20, page 200. From the entry bolter
  • 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
  • England beat Georgia in their Pool B World Cup match in Dunedin but the stuttering nature of the performance will be of concern to manager Martin Johnson.2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41 – 10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 13 Aug 2022. From the entry breakdown
  • Influenza virus polymerase uses a capped primer, derived by "cap-snatching" from host pre-messenger RNA, to transcribe its RNA genome into mRNA and a stuttering mechanism to generate the poly(A) tail.2014 November 19, Stefan Reich et al., “Structural insight into cap-snatching and RNA synthesis by influenza polymerase”, in Nature…. From the entry cap snatching

Meaning of stuttering

  1. noun A speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by involuntary repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables, words or phrases, and by involuntary silent pauses or blocks in which the stutterer is unable to produce sounds.
  2. noun An instance of stuttering.
  3. adjective That stutters.

Full definition of stuttering

Questions about stuttering in a sentence

How do you use stuttering in a sentence?
Stuttering is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “I was stuttering after the marathon.”
What is a short sentence with stuttering?
“I was stuttering after the marathon.”
What does stuttering mean?
Stuttering means a speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by involuntary repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables, words or phrases, and by involuntary silent pauses or blocks in which the stutterer is unable to produce sounds.

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