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stutter

verb as in speak haltingly

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Example Sentences

But, even with a pronounced stutter for the rest of his days, Moses survived.

Sometimes an f-word or a b-word is used in TV and movies like a stutter.

A thin man with a wisp of a goatee beard, he struggles with a stutter to explain what happened to him that day.

He was a boy of 14, Chicago born and raised, with a persistent stutter left over from an early bout with polio.

Maybe the media, and professional sports, are just several stutter-steps behind the country on this one.

Slight stutter ensues on the part of the Four Grenadiers; but they give one another the hint, and dash forward: "Prisoners?"

Look at the reports: the bulletins are confused; the commentaries are entangled; the latter stammer, the former stutter.

It was as if two men talked, one in rapid and clear-clipped syllables—the other in a stutter.

His gait was a shuffling trot, his utterance a rapid stutter.

Dick couldn't spell his own name—couldn't answer a question without a stutter.

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On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stutter, such as: sputter, stammer, dribble, falter, hesitate, and splutter.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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