Example Sentences

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He came back in, and I think he was muttering 'sorry, sorry'

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2023

The old woman was muttering and glaring at me, as she collected her shopping bags and abruptly squeezed past me to stand in the aisle.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2022

Even as I was muttering nonsense, my mum did me the great kindness of ignoring it and trying to convince me that I was perfectly lucid.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 21, 2019

He was muttering a few words about the revolution, she said, the one he was losing.

From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2017

I guess I was muttering to myself—too audibly.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes