stammer
verb (used without object)
to speak with involuntary breaks and pauses, or with spasmodic repetitions of syllables or sounds.
have stammered
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present perfectof stammer.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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"Where others would have stammered, she is making bold announcements," Deodatus Balile, managing editor of Jamhuri Media Limited, says, describing her as diplomatic.
From BBC ● May 3, 2021
I don’t remember whatever I could have said to him in return, whatever I must have stammered to save myself and calm him down.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2019
A point which seemed for a moment so personal to himself, that Ducklow was filled with confusion, and would certainly have stammered out some foolish answer, had not the preacher passed on to other themes.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 by Various
I am 36 years old, and have stammered for 28 years.
From Stammering, Its Cause and Cure by Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue
Had I seen you, I should probably have stammered out something feeble and unsatisfactory—something belying my feelings rather than explaining them; so it is perhaps as well that I was denied admission to your presence.
From The Professor by Charlotte Brontë
