mumble
verb (used without object)
to speak in a low indistinct manner, almost to an unintelligible extent; mutter.
had mumbled
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past perfectof mumble.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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This quarterback was not the same one that had mumbled through his first meeting with the media months earlier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024
“Feels like I just got off the overnight to London,” she had mumbled.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2011
"I'm working on expanding subjective time so that it feels like I live longer," Ed had mumbled to me on the sidewalk outside the Con Ed headquarters, a cigarette dangling from his mouth.
From Time ● Mar. 13, 2011
Of course, there is one politician who might wish he had mumbled a bit more quietly this week.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 30, 2010
At lunch when Mrs. Bishop asked if Ivy had talked to them, she had mumbled a yes, embarrassed that her family had forgotten her on the most important birthday she’d ever had.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
