mumble
verb (used without object)
to speak in a low indistinct manner, almost to an unintelligible extent; mutter.
will mumble
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future tenseof mumble.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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The bruised party will mumble how sorry he is, before taking himself to hospital with a dislocated shoulder.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2015
They will mumble, look around evasively, wander about talking as if in a madman’s monologue, or talk to their slides rather than the audience in what has rightly been called “Death By Powerpoint”.
From Forbes ● Jan. 31, 2015
“Or perhaps I will mumble my way through my interview like a dimwit and be sent home again in shame,” she fretted.
From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood
He will seek to impose on humanity by gesticulations and studied attitudes; an hundred times a day he will mumble over words whose sense has evaporated and which have become empty conventionalities.
From Sophisms of the Protectionists by Horace White
And I will mumble the same to my last turn: Heaven save me from growing wise!
From Wanderers by W. J. Alexander (William John Alexander) Worster
