Example Sentences

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"Fighters are more likely than football players to have slurred speech, or coordination problems. "

From Reuters • May 5, 2016

They may have slurred speech, for example, she said.

From Chicago Tribune • Feb. 24, 2012

But my mother continued to have slurred speech and memory loss.

From Time Magazine Archive

How they have carried out all their bad and dangerous doctrines, but have slurred over and allowed to drop out of sight their promises of good.

From Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way by Pittenger, William

Inglefield, promptly sick of the whole thing, would have slurred the proceedings over—anything to finish them that day—but Ames was built of different stuff.

From John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising by Mitford, Bertram