stammer
verb (used without object)
to speak with involuntary breaks and pauses, or with spasmodic repetitions of syllables or sounds.
stammeringly
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a word derived from
stammer.
Example Sentences
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There’s one video in which a fan gets excited to see him, but Clay acts so stammeringly that the fan loses faith that it’s the right guy.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2024
Gallerygoers who tried to deduce Yeats's personality from his work might imagine him as an angry, half-blind, stammeringly intense young giant, paint-spattered from head to foot.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fathered by a Samoan teenager, adopted at nine months by the Greek owner of a San Diego fishing-boat dock, Louganis had a stammeringly shy childhood that was further complicated by dyslexia and asthma.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I’d so much hoped . . .” he stammeringly repeated, looking up at the great dignitary with pleading and distracted eyes.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
"You know, Mr. Dillwyn," said Lois stammeringly, "I never thought,—I never knew before,—I never had any notion, that—that—that you thought so."
From Nobody by Susan Warner
