mutter
verb (used without object)
to utter words indistinctly or in a low tone, often as if talking to oneself; murmur.
am muttering
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present progressiveof mutter (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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That’s what I am muttering as I haul myself up the winding staircase to the Grand Ballroom on the third floor of the Plaza Hotel in a gown on my way to a black-tie wedding.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2016
More days than not, by the time I actually get to the bootscraping stage, I am muttering curses, neither calmly nor gently, and wondering why we mothers agree to suffer this ordeal.
From Time Magazine Archive
