mumble
verb (used without object)
to speak in a low indistinct manner, almost to an unintelligible extent; mutter.
has been mumbling
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present perfect progressiveof mumble (3rd person singular).present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Last week even Foreign Food Administrator Herbert Lehman, who has been mumbling resignation, gave in.
From Time Magazine Archive
But recently, in keeping with the times, "Pumpkinhead" has been mumbling about a third term.
From Time Magazine Archive
Grandmother Smallweed, who has been mumbling and shaking her head at the trivets, hearing figures mentioned, connects them with money and screeches like a horrible old parrot without any plumage, "Ten ten-pound notes!"
From Bleak House by Charles Dickens
