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 Dickens, Charles