mumble
verb (used without object)
to speak in a low indistinct manner, almost to an unintelligible extent; mutter.
mumbling
Example Sentences
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Mollie Amkraut Mueller’s mumbling was starting to get on her husband’s nerves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026
To test this idea, the researchers combined self-directed internal speech, described as quiet "mumbling," with a specialized working memory system.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 28, 2026
The musician also found late-in-life notoriety through his family’s popular MTV reality series, “The Osbournes,” where he played himself — the mumbling, nearly comatose patriarch of a fully dysfunctional family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2025
There is part of me that wants to be happy about this mission, like Coleman is, instead of sourly mumbling about how the rocket is going up, and then back down.
From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2025
I hear her mumbling something about General Electric stock falling twenty points.
From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake
