mumble
[ˈmʌmbl]
Definition:
1. Talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice.
2. Grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty.
'mumble' example sentence:
- mumble The old man mumbled something to me, but I could not understand him.
- There was a pause while they all watched Ron mumble a little in his sleep.
- He could hear the low mumble of Navarro's voice.
- My words coming out in a quick mumble, but he understood, quite perfectly, and nodded.
- When you mumble, people can't hear you clearly.
- He was still mumbling something about hospitals at the end of the party when he slipped on a piece of ice and broke his left leg.
- Do you think that people are always mumbling?
- When the old lady speak she often mumble her word.
- May : (Mumble) I want to be like her.
- Instead of asking for help, point in the general direction of the book and mumble how it's all written down for them.
- 'Today of all days,' she mumbled.
- If you mumble it looks like you don't know what to say!
- This causes problems for a little penguin named Mumble.
- The old woman mumbled something that I couldn't hear.
- From his staff he earned the sobriquet 'Mumbles'.
- After we all piled in, the driver continued to mumble and grumble in order to let us know how unhappy he was.
- The old man mumbled something to me, but I could not understand him.
- He always mumbles when he's embarrassed.
- He mumbled something about not wanting to go to work.
- Mumble, boy, where are you?
- He spoke in a low mumble, as if to himself.
- For goodness'sakes, Lucy Marian, speak up! I can't abide children who mumble.
- He was mumbling to himself unintelligibly.
- George mumbled incoherently to himself.
- May: ( Mumble) I want to be like her.
- It is better to say nothing than to mumble.
- Speak up. Don't mumble!
- And KT is not one to mumble in the corner about it!
- I chanced to hear the mumbled conversation in the subway.
- No, he learned to mumble a few words when he lived for three years with a band of trained dogs.
- Now mumble something quietly and play with your hair.
- "Well," he conceded, "I do sometimes mumble a bit."
- They mumble, break all the rules of grammar, slur words and so on.
- ‘ Sorry, ’ she mumbled.
- A person can nail a speech in the sense that he doesn't stumble, mumble, or have any awkward pauses.
- After a while, the sleeping Cayce would start to mumble, as though searching for something.
- He mumbled a few words and went off.
- The man proved to be deaf as well as dim-witted, for his mumbled answers were quite irrelevant.
- I could hear him mumbling to himself.
- Mumble: They could have eaten you.
- The body of the girl began to move, and she began to mumble something unintelligible.
- I heard an incoherent mumble.
- I could scarcely mumble while the police questioned me.
- The only time most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep.
- When the old lady speaks she often mumbles her words.
- 'I don't understand,' the Inspector mumbled, passing a hand through his hair.
- She mumbled an apology and left.
- It was embarrassing and sad to see this man reduced to a mumbling wreck.
- One by one they came forward, mumbled grudging words of welcome, made awkward obeisances.
- He mumbled some lame excuse about having gone to sleep.
- He mumbled a few words.
- Her grandmother mumbled in her sleep.
- 'Well,' he conceded, 'I do sometimes mumble a bit.'