stammer
verb (used without object)
to speak with involuntary breaks and pauses, or with spasmodic repetitions of syllables or sounds.
has stammered
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present perfectof stammer (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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When a young M.P. has stammered out his ~coup-d'essai~ in the House, he views, with mingled emotions, his name given to the world, for the first time, in capital letters.
From Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green by Cuthbert Bede
No words can paint the picture, no tongue describe the lofty feeling of elation which crowns the man or woman or boy or girl who has stammered and has been set free.
From Stammering, Its Cause and Cure by Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue
She has stammered a sort of apology:— "I only left the drawing-room a minute for a little quiet."
From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
In him the spirit of man has stammered the syllables of eternity, and in its agony of longing or sorrow has failed to speak only the word love.
From Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition by Edward Hutton
