stammer
verb (used without object)
to speak with involuntary breaks and pauses, or with spasmodic repetitions of syllables or sounds.
were stammering
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past progressiveof stammer.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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They have scoffed at his message as if it were stammering speech.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Alexander Maclaren
And the general left the room with the officers, while the boys were stammering out their thanks.
From The Young Buglers by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
It is as though William Blake had actually transformed himself into some living incarnation of his own Virgilian child-saviour, and were stammering his oracles to mankind through divine baby-lips.
From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by John Cowper Powys
