Example Sentences

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“It was an obscure word, ‘appertaining,’” Immerwahr writes, “as if the law’s writers were mumbling their way through the important bit.”

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2019

Such enthusiasm gratifies therapists, who five years ago were mumbling the answer when asked what they did for a living.

From Time Magazine Archive

Katz and I welcomed them with smiles and started to pitch in, then paused and put back the bowls when we realized the couple were mumbling grace.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

The black men and women were mumbling quietly among themselves; they had not known one another before they had come here, but now their timidity and shame were wearing off and they were exchanging experiences.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

The old woman stirred no more than the rock-hewn pillars on each side of the hearthstone, and her lips were mumbling inarticulate sounds.

From The Man-Wolf and Other Tales by Erckmann-Chatrian