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

Among the skeptics, people like me had mumbled, rather than shouted, our doubts.

From New York Times • May 3, 2013

"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

I waited until he was done singing, until after he had mumbled some words and smudged himself.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline