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
We must have said something as we descended the slope; I must have stammered some sort of appreciation.
From The High Heart by Basil King
I have stammered ever since I was a child.
From Stammering, Its Cause and Cure by Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue
If, if, said I, and had like to have stammered, foolish that I was! if you please, sir.
From Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson
