How To Use Mumble In A Sentence

They mumbled quietly to each other for the rest of the journey.
She climbed aboard the Mumbles train and huddled in a seat in the warmth of the lower deck.
Stuart Braithwaite mumbled into the mike for another newie, Secret Pint.
She mumbled an apology and left.
The driver mumbled a non-committal reply.

Slumping forward onto the gigantic gadget, he mumbled, Good luck finding enough ice for hockey on this dustball. Reap the Whirlwind
Aimee mumbled to herself about getting a lock for her door and pulled the comforter to her bed, cuddling up under it so that she could get back to sleep.
His speech is a mumble, his face immobile, his gait unsteady.
Will there be a lot of ash in the atmosphere down on Rakatan, Doctor—" She paused, trying to remember the name he'd mumbled upon his appearance. Firestorm
Which is why he mumbled something unintelligible instead. The Sun
‘Now this is the life,’ she mumbled contented with the flowing music.
Mullein, mullein ," Kahlan mumbled as she turned to the task. NAKED EMPIRE
They'd go all "Nixon In The Rose Garden" on us and give us a bunch of incoherent mumbletypeg about quality and service and how none of this was really their fault so please don't sue. CarBuyersNoteBook
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Concentrating on defending herself, S'aturinni bought the Major enough time to mumble slightly different syllables, his gemmed gauntlets flashing red this time as a volley of prismatic darts materialised.
Ignoring her acid tone, he mumbled, ‘You're very snappy this afternoon.’
We were in the rags of beggary, prideless in the dust, and yet I was laughing heartily at some mumbled merry quip of the Lady Om when a shadow fell upon us. Chapter 15
I mumbled, reining my horse up beside Jack's, who was leering into the trees, ‘They won't hurt us will they?’
‘Their place is going to be crawling with bodyguards and other low-life goons,’ he mumbled.
‘I hate that,’ she mumbled as she thwacked the ball.
Thus the newspaper man, wearily certain that regardless of what he asks or how he asks it, he will hear for answers only the clumsy asininities behind which the personalities, leaders and sacred white cows pompously attitudinize, gets so that he mumbles a bit incoherently. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
Yet ministers continue to mumble about 'looking at the issue' rather than committing themselves to action. Times, Sunday Times
A low mumble may have signified assent, but probably didn't. Times, Sunday Times
She mumbled a muffled thanks through the mouthful of grips and positioned herself in front of the reflective piece of glass, carefully retying her hair then sliding each clip back into its rightful place.
‘Oh, it's you,’ he mumbled unenthusiastically.
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Takakura Ken would first mumble something like, "Kane wa doko da. BLEG
Yet ministers continue to mumble about 'looking at the issue' rather than committing themselves to action. Times, Sunday Times
In the end I settled for a mumbled noise which sounded like all four. The Sun
"I know, but I thought it would sound neat, " Moe mumbled.
He's got a funny way of showing it,' I mumbled through a mouthful of beef koon po. DEAD BEAT
Khemsa hauled himself to the edge and stared over, haggardly, his lips working as he mumbled to himself. The Bloody Crown of Conan
the old man had no teeth left and mumbled his food
A sheepish flush tinged my cheeks and Diego mumbled something in rapid Spanish about the sister he never had.
But the good man had his idea, and even when he was alone the name of Mr. Archer fell from his lips continually in the course of mumbled and gesticulative conversation. Lay Morals
‘Isn't that for sure,’ Joe mumbled not knowing what she meant but never liked to be disagreeable to a woman.
He bumped into someone and mumbled an apology.
In fact, it works out to be about * mumble ... mumble* right around 8% of the billions of computer users. dowell100 October 3, 2009 4: 37 PM PDT Freshnews.org - most clicked links
Everything starts to come out as an eyes-to-the-desk mumble.
There was an uncertain mumble from the group in general. ‘All right then.’
Able only to mumble coded secrets, poets often seem the village idiots so wickedly satirized by Woody Allen's Love and Death.
The only sounds were bird cries, wind rustle and the mumble of the shallow Tees. Times, Sunday Times
He's got a funny way of showing it,' I mumbled through a mouthful of beef koon po. DEAD BEAT
Hari remembered standing in the darkened street, watching the parade of carriages driving along Mumbles Road and into Gloucester Place.
The organist often crackled or whined the Gregorian-chant hymns and the celebrant often hummed, mumbled, or whispered the Latin prayers.
At this point, in a climax of courtliness, one or another of them may mumble, "What? Dorothy's Parker House Rolls: A Jazz Age Recipe
‘Yes, sir,’ I mumbled, my face flushing scarlet as I took the seat in the back corner.
‘Or an old friend that wants your body,’ Andy mumbled between chews, glancing out of the window.
In the end I settled for a mumbled noise which sounded like all four. The Sun
Finally she lets out a loud burp, mumbles, ‘Excuse me’ and returns inside.
I guess so, " he mumbled, and turned the handwheel to undog the outer door. Three Worlds To Conquer
They mutter and mumble and soldier on. Times, Sunday Times
His speech is something between a muffle and a mumble, a perpetual whisper beneath the breath.
During a pretrial hearing last month, Abdulmutallab muttered "Osama's alive" to some spectators as he was brought into the courtroom and mumbled "jihad" when the judge used the phrase "al Qaeda" as she read the charges against him. Reuters: Press Release
I will however admit to occasionally, when I feel particularly embarrassed for my unabashed public monologues, pretending to be singing instead, like "* mumble mumble* I really should complete my masterplan for world domination today Popular Posts Across MetaFilter
In a roaring but strangely squeakily toned mumble of utter nonsensical gibberish, the round manchild asked me something I can only assume was about how my shopping went, to which I could think of no other reply except, "Fine, and you," before I loaded the conveyor belt with my few items that were to be sent frightfully into this employee's clumsily oversized hands. One Cent Baby
He mumbled something about the traffic. Times, Sunday Times
Spolarics mumbled an answer, “the left anterior interosseous nerve.” Body of Knowledge
A low mumble may have signified assent, but probably didn't. Times, Sunday Times
a couple of steamer chairs that were not in use, and they sat down near together, and dad took hold of her hand to see if she was nervous, and he told me I could go any play mumbletypeg in the cabin, and I went in the cabin and looked out of the window at dad and the widow. Peck's Bad Boy Abroad Being a Humorous Description of the Bad Boy and His Dad in Their Journeys Through Foreign Lands - 1904
… and who can forget that day he interviewed Emmitt Smith over a game of mumbletypeg. WHO WANTS TO WIN PAUL RUDD?
They mutter and mumble and soldier on. Times, Sunday Times
As I couldn't quite find the words to respond to that, I decided a mumble and a nod of the head would suffice.
'You make that stuff sound really dangerous," Jorge Luis Ochoa mumbled. BLACK EAGLES
The rabbi once again mumbled some Hebrew, and some Aramaic, prayers, again explaining precisely nothing to the mourners, and again not eulogizing the deceased.
Friday night, local director Lynn Shelton — also treading on male turf (the minimalist mumblecore genre, which is dominated by pointy-headed male directors) — won the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes award for her lo-fi drama Humpday. Local Filmmaker Lynn Shelton Wins Trophy of Her Own « PubliCola
I was about to mumble something but the doors opened, he saluted and lumbered off. Times, Sunday Times
Underneath all these echoing voices (including his own mumbles), he stretches pulsing bass, percolating congas, and an ocean of polyrhythmic waves into a weird dance song constantly in-flux.
His voice dropped to a mumble, his grip on my wrist loosened and he stopped struggling so much.
Two male students, who were turned away mumbled as they left and dumped a stack of blank ballots into a dustbin outside the police post.
Abdulmutallab, who muttered "Osama's alive" to some spectators as he was brought into the courtroom, mumbled "jihad" when Judge Edmunds used the name "al Qaeda" as she read the charges against him to the jury. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
This used to be a well-known fact; and daily still, in certain edifices, steeple-houses, joss-houses, temples sacred or other, everywhere spread over the world, we hear some dim mumblement of an assertion that such is still, what it was always and will forever be, the fact: but meseems it has terribly fallen out of memory nevertheless. Latter-Day Pamphlets
What a cornball, she mumbled to herself as she took a seat in the back of the room.
‘This isn't working,’ mumbled Vladimir Vladimirovich as he pulled his presidential address book from his jacket pocket and started thumbing through it.
Yet ministers continue to mumble about 'looking at the issue' rather than committing themselves to action. Times, Sunday Times
Travis mumbled a few words as he passed by the living room and tossed his drenched overshirt in a pile of dirty clothes.
The life of a milkman is a busy one, but I found time to mumble my Greek roots as I trotted in and out of the cellars. From the Bottom Up
‘I love him,’ Lily repeated, though her voice was little more than a mumble.
They fumble with sheets of paper and index cards, and mumble and punctuate every five words with ‘um’.
I mumbled yes, indeed, so it would be; then I noticed that she was looking at me a trifle arch, and cudgelled my wits to think why - she couldn't be wanting to get off with me, not with Canning there - and then her last words sank in, my legs went weak, and I believe I absolutely said, "Hey? Fiancée
Growing up in Hope, Foster was the boy across the backyard fence, playing a pocketknife game called mumbletypeg with his pal. The Mystery Of The White House Suicide
Lisa mumbled a reply as she chewed on a pen, and William went on with what he wanted.
So, as I mumbled very adultly under my breath, “They started it,” I tossed the last Giggle-Doll back over the wall to its owners, who did not once come to my defense by admitting that they did, indeed, start it. Bluemeany Diary Entry
He comes in, looks around, mumbles about my wires and cracks some really bad jokes.
The dark-haired boy buried his face further into Sully's neck, answering Sully's sleepy inquiry with a incoherent mumble.
I mumble a noncommittal reply and decide not to mention the TV series I present.
His sleep was restless, and every so often he mumbled a few unintelligible words.
It articulates, in the lucid language of a single author, what the committee that wrote The National Security Strategy of the United States of America could only mumble in fuzzy bureaucratese.
I mumbled with some effort as a name floated out of my jumbled mind. Lost Brother
‘Okay, great,’ I mumbled to my empty room, but the sound of my voice was drowned out by a loud clap of thunder.
She mumbled briefly, acting the part of a very immature child of eight years, no more and no less; her mother ignored this and prompted Christine to return to a more important topic of conversation: the marquis.
The best man said nothing to assuage the ensuing lack of confidence, nor did Sandra, the bride's friend from our table, who got up and mumbled a few incoherencies about nightclubs and alcohol.
All I caught of his mumble was a vague -- "quite correct," than which nothing could have been more egregiously false at bottom -- to my view, at least. 'Twixt Land and Sea
Maggie Jacobs: [ after a pause. mumbles ] They're brothers.
When Annie came in she was so flustered she forgot about the horseshoes, mumbled an excuse and ran off. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
My answer is mumbled and incomplete and leaves me and my questioner unsatisfied.
When she tried to speak, she mumbled sounds that were mainly incomprehensible, but at least she recognized us. No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
`If we're going to mumble, does it haves to be so pitiable ? SPLITTING
He mumbled sth. to me but I could not hear what he said.
Which is why he mumbled something unintelligible instead. The Sun
The music had distorted, the words mumbled into an unlistenable mess.
Just forget about it, " I mumbled pulling the covers over my head.
The soldiers would mumble rude things at us under their breath, so we learned to be deaf to them, or pretend to be.
Everyone looked over, stared at Carmen, then proceeded to mumble their greetings and introductions as the lift ascended.
“Good evening to your haner,” said the man — “Good evening to you, sir,” said the woman; whilst the younger mumbled something, probably to the same effect, but which I did not catch. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
He mumbled, twiddling his fingers like a young and nervous child.
From his staff he earned the sobriquet "Mumbles".
‘Uh, thanks,’ Bella mumbled, trying to loosen her dress because it suddenly felt tight.
It came out as a mumble with all the stuffed bread in his mouth.
Within a week of the interview, Dorothy Rabinowitz of the Wall Street Journal wrote an article entitled "Deepak Blames America," and Elisabeth Hasselbeck of The View called him "Glitter glasses whatshisface" and mumbled "Go light a bowl of incense. Michelle Haimoff: My Uncensored Interview with Deepak Chopra
Goblin and Silent were playing no-hands mumbletypeg. Shadows Linger
‘Yeah,’ she mumbled and toed the ground with the tip of her dull black shoe.
First of all, she's a mumbler, so I really have to strain to hear her.
He mumbled something about the traffic. Times, Sunday Times
She speaks in a low mumble. Times, Sunday Times
Damien mumbled an inaudible reply and began sipping his coffee.
I was about to mumble something but the doors opened, he saluted and lumbered off. Times, Sunday Times
‘I do not understand your pathological obsession about mysteries,’ Chase mumbled as he followed after his dark-haired cousin.
She mumbled an apology in an agony of embarrassment.
Full of intense vulnerability, belligerence and a delicate, mousy charm, Henderson manages to mumble throughout the entire film and still emerge as one of the best reasons to go and see it.
I think they're more fun than playing solitaire or mumbletypeg," declared Uncle Henry, soberly. The Emerald City of Oz
In the end I settled for a mumbled noise which sounded like all four. The Sun
As mentioned in an earlier crit, the unusual presentation of a drab and colourless sixties really creates an atmosphere of sordidity and the authentic sets added to this (... don't you just HATE it when you mumble under your breath We Blog A Lot
_ I have heard of him; he has a mighty stroke at matrimonies, and mumbles them over as fast, as if he were teaching us to forget them all the while. The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04
I mumbled, putting the bookmark in my book, sitting up and picking up the phone.
The harried pastor mumbled something and rushed out the door. Christianity Today
We in the hardboat were bound for Mumbles Pier, the others for more distant destinations.
Generally speaking the members of an Anglican congregation either deny that they are Anglican, are tourists or mumble something before running away.
From this it proceeds, that many times when they rise, their wits run a wool-gathering, and they are more inclined to look crabbedly, grumble and mumble, then to shew each other any signs of love and friendship: for an empty purse, makes a sorrowfull pate. The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple
If you can't hum quietly, then mumble loudly these wallopy words under your breath.
He rode an old dirt bike and mumbled when he talked.
Facebook have foundered as millions "mumble" - the translation of tweet - and give mini-blogging a distinctly Japanese flavor. Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
I was about to mumble something but the doors opened, he saluted and lumbered off. Times, Sunday Times
Soren's voice came out in more of a mumble than anything else.
‘Sorry’ she mumbled, scrabbling on the floor for her dropped items.
She heard him mumble something indistinct, and he tried to spit at her, but his aim left a lot to be desired.
We sailed east on a floating palace that offered myriad activities, such as mumblety-peg, spillikins and ring-a-levio.
As an icky ode to the cringe-making magic of sex, "Autoerotic" plays for deliberate laughs the awkward intimacies that usually give mumblecore films a sense of vulnerable reality. Beat the Heat With a Reel Meal and a Jaunt to Brazil
Which is why he mumbled something unintelligible instead. The Sun
His half-shut eyes and slurred, mumbled speech testified to our concerns about his ability and competence to care for Ilija when he takes him two weekends per month. Global Voices in English » Serbia: Blogging for Justice and Protection
I don't understand," the Inspector mumbled, passing a hand through his hair.
Emerson mumbled something unintelligible into the orifice in question. LION IN THE VALLEY
She speaks in a low mumble. Times, Sunday Times
So you might mumble about an irrelevant cold for a while before taking the plunge by asking about, say, your impotence. The Sun
Most rappers are big dull lunkheads who just mumble about themselves, but not DMX.
He spoke in a low mumble, as if to himself.
‘I took you to the optometrist and she said that you had perfect twenty-twenty vision… I don't understand machines these days… ‘she mumbled to herself and walked back out.’
‘Some of us are trying to sleep,’ I mumbled into my pillow, grasping my bedcovers and pulling them over my head just before light filled the room.
He mumbled and stuffed his hands into his trouser pockets.
‘Whatever,’ he mumbled, fumbling his pockets for his keys.
She mumbled something and shut her eyes, falling into a fitful sleep.
Asked who this man was, the child mumbled proudly ‘Amaar baba (my father).’
The soft mumble of laughter and talk began to subside as I felt myself fall deeper.
'You make that stuff sound really dangerous," Jorge Luis Ochoa mumbled. BLACK EAGLES
I mumble something about how he doesn't like change. Times, Sunday Times
Maybe shrieking and yelping in the background while a bunch of hollow-eyed Irish crooners half-heartedly mumble a chicken-in-a-basket classic is just what Jackson needs to get his career back on track.
WE can make BABIES and YOU CAN’T neener neener uhhh not that that means we’re essentialist because essentialism is bad mkay mumblesomething about socialization. anyway, you CAN’T COME IN, you jealous jealousertons! An open letter to cis feminists
Mullein, mullein ," Kahlan mumbled as she turned to the task. NAKED EMPIRE
Tories therefore mumble about choice. Times, Sunday Times
many conservative Catholics mumble the antiphon at Mass and let the words roll off them like water off a duck's back.
I mumbled something equally articulate in response and then we sort of walked to the desk together to punch our numbers in.
Her voice was a mere mumble as she answered back.
Brandon mumbled an inaudible reply before seating himself at the breakfast bar.
The frost was working out of the ground, and out of the air, too, and it was getting closer and closer onto barefoot time every day; and next it would be marble time, and next mumbletypeg, and next tops and hoops, and next kites, and then right away it would be summer and going in a-swimming. Tom Sawyer, Detective
She went regularly to service, told her beads, read her euchology, mumbled Les Miserables
I was... I was walking myself,' she mumbled, shaking a fresh concatenation of rivulets from her cheeks, her colour rising. BEHINDLINGS
He always mumbles when he's embarrassed.
I mumble, trying to read Ian Anwar's cramped handwriting.
He picked at the tufts of grass at his shoes, and mumbled, ‘Well, all the same, I prefer sitting here with you.’
He prefers to sing in a blurry mumble, letting his meanings emerge in the scuffed and yearning tone of his voice as much as in the words themselves.
making odd hand or finger movements that are not typically dyskinetic, performing inconspicuous repetitive actions (e.g., making a series of clicking sounds before or after speaking, tapping or automatically touching objects while walking about), mutism, psychomotor retardation, or speech that becomes progressively less voluble until it becomes a nonunderstandable mumble (prosectic speech). The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
There wasn't a laugh, a giggle, or even a small mumble, just gawking with her mouth wide open.
Speak clearly and at a moderate pace. Do not shout or mumble.
They were answered by a faint mumble from beside him.
Mumbles Head at the other side of the bay had disappeared under a grey pall of rain. GOODBYE CURATE
I'm going outside to whittle and then play mumbletypeg. MetaFilter Projects
I didn't quite catch all the lyrics myself, but if you just mumble it and think patriotic thoughts (Vegemite, outdoor dunnies, koalas) you should be right.
Embarrassed, all he could manage was mumble an incoherent reply.
Usually an assuming policeman would come on screen and mumble something about a new lead in the process tracking down the culprits.
Upon noticing her state he hurriedly outstretched his hand and mumbled an apology as he helped her off of the ground.
‘Jesus, Mary and Joseph,’ he mumbled, and knelt down and blessed himself.
From thence at least did these profane eyes look down and see all the mumblement and jumblement, which after all was little enough; but saw especially the idle clerical apprentice who, had that screen been down, and had he been called on to do his altar work before the public eye, would not have been so nearly asleep, as may perhaps be said of other clerical performers nearer home. The Bertrams
She drifted into the subaudible mumble that was her medium for describing and critiquing—mostly to herself—an irrational and probably insane world. Again to Carthage
‘Their place is going to be crawling with bodyguards and other low-life goons,’ he mumbled.
There is even a subgenre of film-making called mumblecore, characterised by what is termed 'naturalistic dialogue'. Times, Sunday Times
David mumbles as an idea comes into his head and he reaches for the cordless phone, which is resting, by his side.
The harried pastor mumbled something and rushed out the door. Christianity Today
All I hear is "aww .... it's okay. * mumble mumble*" KayLee is slurring her words. Vodka-n-milk Diary Entry
Don't mumble or spit at it.
The crew from the Mumbles had gone to take an injured man off a freighter. LET NOT THE DEEP
When she tried to speak, she mumbled sounds that were mainly incomprehensible, but at least she recognized us. No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
Suffice to say the next time Sarah was co-hosting with John she humorously chided her colleague for such fustiness, to which John mumbled a splendidly unconvincing apology. Archive 2006-04-01
Her grandmother mumbled in her sleep.
Watch any low budget pre-election television show, lay back and listen while the terminally dumb mumble their excuses for not being able to put a cross on a piece of paper and pop it into a battered tin box.
A low mumble may have signified assent, but probably didn't. Times, Sunday Times
Today, I'm told, the people of Basra whisper and mumble about the intifada, but only among family members at home or in tearooms with their most intimate friends.
His voice trailed off into an absorbed mumble as he tried to jot everything down.
So the platform suddenly filled with around 700 prime cuts of jailbait, jostling and pouting, preening and throwing disparaging glances and mumbled bitchy comments, at anyone who didn't in their opinion, look as good as them.
I mumbled something about Paris, Rome, and Venice and immediately felt graceless and ashamed.
We were too lazy to do more than mumble on in intermittent conversation. Pictures

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