mumble
verb (used without object)
to speak in a low indistinct manner, almost to an unintelligible extent; mutter.
have mumbled
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present perfectof mumble.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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The hour's title is drawn from Booth's reported last words: "Useless, useless, useless," he is said to have mumbled while staring at his hands.
From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2024
No más: Brando may have mumbled his way to screen fame, but when will today's film stars stop whisper-acting every line as if it were a secret?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2015
I doubt not that Master Jeff would have mumbled some verse to himself had he known any: knowing none, he lay there and listened to the wind.
From Jeff Briggs's Love Story by Bret Harte
Had I Alfred’s voice, I would not have mumbled for years over In Memoriam and the Princess, but sung such strains as would have revived the Μαραθωνομαχους ανδρας to guard the territory they had won.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by William Aldis Wright
At last, "Will ye hae's, Bell?" would have dropped from his half-reluctant lips; and Bell would have mumbled, "Ay," with her thumb in her mouth.
From Auld Licht Idyls by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
