Example Sentences

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His friends are mumbling something that sounds like “No, no”; but Josh has opened his floodgates, and the fears keep hurtling out.

From The Guardian • Nov. 5, 2016

Men are mumbling and grunting à la True Detective.

From Slate • Mar. 22, 2015

Oh, and thinking that actors are mumbling is, I'm afraid, from my own experience, an inevitable sign of ageing.

From The Guardian • Aug. 30, 2012

It is when I try to take you practically at your word that I find you are mumbling a fetish.

From Simon Called Peter by Keable, Robert

The Abbot Duckfoot--Holy John, Came waddling in and grumbling: 'What is't so late, when the feast is done, To fiddles ye are mumbling?

From Gaudeamus! Humorous Poems by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von