mumble

Definition:
1. Talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice.
2. Grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty.

Use 'mumble' in a sentence:

• 1. mumble The old man mumbled something to me, but I could not understand him.
• 2. There was a pause while they all watched Ron mumble a little in his sleep.
• 3. He could hear the low mumble of Navarro's voice.
• 4. My words coming out in a quick mumble, but he understood, quite perfectly, and nodded.
• 5. When you mumble, people can't hear you clearly.
• 6. 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.
• 7. Do you think that people are always mumbling?
• 8. When the old lady speak she often mumble her word.
• 9. May : (Mumble) I want to be like her.
• 10. Instead of asking for help, point in the general direction of the book and mumble how it's all written down for them.
• 11. 'Today of all days,' she mumbled.
• 12. If you mumble it looks like you don't know what to say!
• 13. This causes problems for a little penguin named Mumble.
• 14. The old woman mumbled something that I couldn't hear.
• 15. From his staff he earned the sobriquet 'Mumbles'.
• 16. After we all piled in, the driver continued to mumble and grumble in order to let us know how unhappy he was.
• 17. The old man mumbled something to me, but I could not understand him.
• 18. He always mumbles when he's embarrassed.
• 19. He mumbled something about not wanting to go to work.
• 20. Mumble, boy, where are you?
• 21. He spoke in a low mumble, as if to himself.
• 22. For goodness'sakes, Lucy Marian, speak up! I can't abide children who mumble.
• 23. He was mumbling to himself unintelligibly.
• 24. George mumbled incoherently to himself.
• 25. May: ( Mumble) I want to be like her.
• 26. It is better to say nothing than to mumble.
• 27. Speak up. Don't mumble!
• 28. And KT is not one to mumble in the corner about it!
• 29. I chanced to hear the mumbled conversation in the subway.
• 30. No, he learned to mumble a few words when he lived for three years with a band of trained dogs.
• 31. Now mumble something quietly and play with your hair.
• 32. "Well," he conceded, "I do sometimes mumble a bit."
• 33. They mumble, break all the rules of grammar, slur words and so on.
• 34. ‘ Sorry, ’ she mumbled.
• 35. A person can nail a speech in the sense that he doesn't stumble, mumble, or have any awkward pauses.
• 36. After a while, the sleeping Cayce would start to mumble, as though searching for something.
• 37. He mumbled a few words and went off.
• 38. The man proved to be deaf as well as dim-witted, for his mumbled answers were quite irrelevant.
• 39. I could hear him mumbling to himself.
• 40. Mumble: They could have eaten you.
• 41. The body of the girl began to move, and she began to mumble something unintelligible.
• 42. I heard an incoherent mumble.
• 43. I could scarcely mumble while the police questioned me.
• 44. The only time most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep.
• 45. When the old lady speaks she often mumbles her words.
• 46. 'I don't understand,' the Inspector mumbled, passing a hand through his hair.
• 47. She mumbled an apology and left.
• 48. It was embarrassing and sad to see this man reduced to a mumbling wreck.
• 49. One by one they came forward, mumbled grudging words of welcome, made awkward obeisances.
• 50. He mumbled some lame excuse about having gone to sleep.
• 51. He mumbled a few words.
• 52. Her grandmother mumbled in her sleep.
• 53. 'Well,' he conceded, 'I do sometimes mumble a bit.'