How To Use Mumbling In A Sentence
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`The habitation of the great unwashed ," she finally repeated, mumbling miserably.
ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
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Just then the door opened and in stepped a wiry bearded man, who was mumbling to himself and skittering around cattishly.
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Mumbling distractedly, she conducts me through the hundreds of exhibits.
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There's mumbling and there's staring and now there's twitching.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was just kind of scatting, mumbling, whatever and, you know, and going, well, I'll figure out what has to write there, but I've decided I liked the scatting better than any more words.
A Veteran Songwriter's 'Old Man' Music
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I'm pretty sure our esteemed colleague from the NPCA would have been instantly transformed into a mumbling idiot.
Judge Blocks Guns-In-Parks Rule
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After three attempts my patience erodes to the point that I begin mumbling a string of off-color language to the howling wind.
Excerpt: The Privilege of Youth by Dave Pelzer
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Most of the time people were either shouting or mumbling.
Times, Sunday Times
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The difference between being well dressed or not is similar to the difference between mumbling and speaking clearly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Maybe the re-appearance of her beloved Quickos will finally drag her out of this sorry state of maudlin, mumbling, booze-addled torpor.
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The boys in the office made mumbling noises about the fact that I'd got my hair cut, and studiously avoided saying anything else.
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EA: A lot of indie films seem to celebrate mumbling, bumbling and general inarticulateness.
Erica Abeel: A Dangerous Method Is an Action Movie for Grownups
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For me ‘the strong, silent type’ conjures up images of slit-eyed Clint Eastwood, mumbling a few well chosen syllables before dispatching some low-life to oblivion with his enormous gun.
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honorableness" was when he defended Obama in the one town hall meeting w / that "Muslim" mumbling women ….
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Astley's is a kind of semi-ruined pastoral, a bucolic summer-hazed delirium shadowed by mumbling disquiet, in which mechanically-iterated found sounds are put into concert with an oneiric chamber music.
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We quickly scrambled for our cars, mumbling unmeant thanks for a good time.
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He is, at this moment, hunched over his unstolen cellphone in tears, begging, pleading, mumbling imprecations for me to call him and relieve his torment.
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Making warding signs and mumbling fearful prayers to Caelus Nin and the Seven Brass gods, the bewildered people of Sumifa fled before her, making for the cliffs, their chickens and goats squawking and bleating in front of them.
Song of Time
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He smiled again as he saw me, mumbling something indistinctive.
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One wrote: 'Where did this idea that mumbling and muttering makes a drama more realistic?
Times, Sunday Times
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The man began mumbling quietly under his breath.
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I could hear him mumbling to himself.
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Sam trundled off to bed, looking less pale than before, shaking his head and mumbling about how it was a great riff, though…
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There are so many indecipherable mumblings that you have to replay and replay.
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Bella is even further baffled as her friend leaned in mumbling under her breath about something being “ridiculous” and purposefully smelled her shoulder a few times.
Twilight Lexicon » Chapter Seventeen – Visitor
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The difference between being well dressed or not is similar to the difference between mumbling and speaking clearly.
Times, Sunday Times
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One wrote: 'Where did this idea that mumbling and muttering makes a drama more realistic?
Times, Sunday Times
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She kept mumbling about how'we need to tighten our collars '.
The Sun
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Curious onlookers soon went back to their work, mumbling quietly to themselves.
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The difference between being well dressed or not is similar to the difference between mumbling and speaking clearly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Carnahan does, however, have an oddball sense of comic timing; what his picture lacks in hilarity it recuperates with a well-developed, albeit mumbling, sense of the absurd.
GreenCine Daily: Interview. Joe Carnahan and Jeremy Piven.
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I found him mumbling under his breath about the cheap effing computers that the company bought!
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Oh, no -- La Fayette was quite content to let him build them for the Irrakwa, mumbling some idiotic excuse like: The Irrakwa are already using steam engines for their spinning wheels, and all the coal is on the American side -- but Frederic de Maurepas knew the truth.
He Don't Know Him
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The difference between being well dressed or not is similar to the difference between mumbling and speaking clearly.
Times, Sunday Times
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He's a gentle, mumbling soul who means well but never quite manages to make those around him happy.
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Brendan" is prone to adolescent mumbling, so there are a few scenes that left me fighting to catch my attention-breath while I struggled to parse out what had just happened.
God, the weather here sucks ass
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On the whole, not a great success, ending as it did in mumbling confession of love, response of utter incomprehension and threats of violence from older brother.
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I said morosely and mumbling to myself more than her… ‘I'm going to be 40 this year’.
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I would get a voice message mumbling about unusually high call volumes and texts about the urgent need for the washing of hair.
Times, Sunday Times
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He gets off the train any old place, trusting to luck, and goes around the platform accosting one person after another, each time mumbling the same syllables: bou bournous…
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There's mumbling and there's staring and now there's twitching.
Times, Sunday Times
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I tried to see what was going on but I couldn't focus all I saw was blurry figures and all I could hear was mumbling.
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We start with a blond, long-haired young man shambling through the woods, mumbling to himself.
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Prissy burst into tears and incoherent mumblings: " Poke!
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This talented and charismatic alpinist also knows Bass, yet he awkwardly dismissed attempting to influence him by mumbling banalities about how everyone has to work within their own comfort zone.
David Holbrooke: Skiing and Sacrifice
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So tepid arguments between mumbling, incoherent, misinformed gentlemen speckle the news programmes.
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I have my speaker set on high - I can hear mumbling, but I cannot discern or understand what it is he is saying, at all.
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The only other interruption was an early evening telephone call from my sister, who responded to my mumbling incoherence by asking whether I was drunk.
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Kishi walked out of the classroom, absent-mindedly waving and mumbling a greeting to those who called to her.
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Mumbling, stumbling and uncertain, he managed to combine the theatricality of a great performance with the naturalistic details of finely observed human behaviour.
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She reached inside her handbag, mumbling something under her tears and pulled out a pregnancy test stick.
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He began mumbling in Latin, and attempted to make the sign of the Cross.
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No sooner had the lights gone out than there were mumblings of sabotage, some kind of conspiracy, foul play, under-hand machinations.
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Some drunken couple bumps into me, mumbling a drunken slur of words, which I assume to be apologizes.
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I could hear him mumbling something and then there was silence.
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He is mumbling something to the nurse at reception and she looks past him, straight at us.
Times, Sunday Times
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I attend a Catholic wedding and endure a mumbling, straight-faced ten-minute homily about the evils of throwing confetti.
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You're that mumbling teenager, angry at everything without being able to make your anger understood.
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But the underlying zing from the mumbling, GOP-backing sergeant is that aforementioned fear-and jealousy based dissing that Tiger Woods is the constant recipient of.
The Post In Which Karl Rove Channels Hall & Oates' Hit Single “Out Of Touch”
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Its strange how so many little problems can render me a mumbling, incoherent madman.
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I heard Katie and Juliette mumbling to each other about remembering the street, and I saw Tommy eyeing everyone and everything.
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Grumbling, the old woman retreated back upstairs, mumbling continually about the problems with today's youth.
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He is mumbling something to the nurse at reception and she looks past him, straight at us.
Times, Sunday Times
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Or maybe mumbling is the new NewSpeak: we’ll just be inarticulate on the record, and then fix the record after the fact.
Think Progress » That’s Not Accurate: White House Alters Transcript of Press Briefing
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Meanwhile, Shii-chan sulking in her room, viewing the pictures in her handphone and mumbling, 'Baka' after looking at the solo portrait of her Kanade drew.
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All she got in reply was some slurred, unintelligible mumbling.
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Begging your bread, forsooth, and mumbling like a fieldhand!
THE NUMBERS
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But as they go on mindlessly, menacing, mumbling the propaganda prayer: "remember 9/11 -- murder every moslem residing in THEIR land atop OUR oil" -- we begin to see that lie is all they're living for, self-consumed inside the myth of false reality, and we can only feel the saddest lonely sorry for them in neurotic hell, in heads and lives a hollow shell of empty television, nine-eleven nightmares, and their Bush betraying them.
Straight from the top (Jack Bog's Blog)
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She sprinkled lavender and mint on his stomach, then followed the lines of the star with a piece of aventurine, mumbling of Mercury, the Roman messenger of the gods and god of travelers, and invoking the element of earth.
Arcane Circle
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When I hear people mumbling away about what a terrible world this is to bring children into, I want to spit.
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` ` I didn't know what that meant, but I guess I know now that mumbling is good.
USATODAY.com - Basketball - Orlando vs. Detroit
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This even includes a section in which a speech therapist analyses his mumbling sentences.
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He kept mumbling indistinctly to himself… I couldn't understand most of it.
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Mobile phones are turning us into a nation of mumbling idiots with a set of stock phrases such as "Hi!"
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Joey pushed her away with one leg and rolled to face the wall, mumbling some syllables that sounded like gold and myrrh.
FAMILY BLESSINGS
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Skeptics are not a bunch of beardie wierdies drinking real ale, wearing sci-fi T shirts and mumbling about conspiracy theories.
Archive 2010-03-01
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He willed the farm to Annie before lapsing into delirium and feverishly mumbling his last words in the Maori he knew so well.
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There's mumbling and there's staring and now there's twitching.
Times, Sunday Times
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I couldn't understand what he was mumbling about.
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A couple of months ago when Deborah Howell was "deluged" with "uncivilized" comments about her failure to correct a blatant misrepresentation, the Washington Post ombudsman and others had a shrieking fit of the vapors and spent days on the fainting couch mumbling incoherently about the rude insults they had to endure.
Hullabaloo
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When an act billed as the Muneca Viviente was announced, I heard some mumbling from the audience behind me.
Atayde Hermanos Circus
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He definitely needs services," the psychologist, a red-faced man with round glasses and a penchant for mumbling in jargon, decided. "We just don't know what.
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Don't be alarmed, however: fans of Vile's distinctive deadpan mumbling and the band's gently rolling and Dylanesque guitar rock will still find their constituency represented – simply stated in a larger and arguably more self-confident fashion.
This week's new live music
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From the way he reacted (not at all), I'd say he was asleep… except for the fact that he kept mumbling angrily and unintelligibly to himself.
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As Rodrigo Borgia he is comical in his self-regard and foppishness, ordering villages to be stripped of chattals or his enemies slayed before sinking back weakly into his papal throne, fingering the edges of his golden crown mumbling that God is verily moving within him.
The Borgias: Grace Dent's TV OD
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Never one to be clearly understood, he takes his mumbling incoherence to new depths.
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He had a habit of becoming so absorbed in his subject, as to slide down in his chair, hold his finger up toward the ceiling, and then, with his eye fastened on the tip of it, to go mumbling through a kind of rhapsody, which most of my German fellow-students confessed they could not understand.
Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, Volume I
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But the pock - marked fellow kept mumbling and grumbling till Commissioner Pu was very embarrassed.
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I would get a voice message mumbling about unusually high call volumes and texts about the urgent need for the washing of hair.
Times, Sunday Times
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When called, they did give a sort of apology, much like a school kid looking down at his shoes and mumbling something because he doesn't want to be seen to apologise to the weedy kid he was punching.
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While asleep, victims are often heard mumbling, ‘It's not fair, it's not fair.’
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He's geeky to a fault, quirky, talks in a mumbling, nasally fashion, and he's generally just crazy.
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He is mumbling something to the nurse at reception and she looks past him, straight at us.
Times, Sunday Times
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What begins as a monologue with French-accented English from a mumbling - if endearing - simpleton emerges as a metaphor not only for language and cultural divides but sexual awakening and repression.
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She made a sleepy mumbling sound and pulled his chilly body close.
Bomber
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Cautiously a slim, unringed hand burrowed out from the somber folds of the big cloak, and raised the pink mouth-mumbling veil as much as half an inch above the red-lipped speech line.
Molly Make-Believe
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They went back to their places mumbling and grumbling, but always taking quick glances our way.
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Several of the words used in Earl Sterndale are found in other dialects of the British Isles, such as cack-handed 'clumsy', chuntering 'mumbling disagreeably', and nous, 'common sense'.
On a disappearing dialect
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Others, probably close friends, bowed their heads respectfully, mumbling - a prayer perhaps.
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Each of them seemed panicked and blubbery, mumbling to themselves in French.
Crossed
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He went inside mumbling something about friends and enemies that I didn't quite catch.
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She made a sleepy mumbling sound and pulled his chilly body close.
Bomber
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Mumbling pieties is not the same thing as having or practicing faith.
Think Progress » Religious Right ‘Too Busy to Comment’ on Pat Robertson, Quick to DeLay’s Defense
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Barefooted and clad only in swim trunks (it is too hot for clothing), my busy-bodied better half is mumbling something about cards ... cartes de visite.
Cafés
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As a kid, my only memories of Pesach (Passover), was drinking three glasses of wine on somewhat an empty stomach, mumbling incoherently phrases out of the hagada (the book read during the ritual of Passover).
Indybay newswire
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So you can imagine my surprise when I open the door to find two odorous men, half-heartedly mumbling that they're here to ‘move me’.
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From the bunk room, they heard Joey mumbling in his sleep.
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He had stopped talking when he realized his words were turning into meaningless mumbling.
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As the woman lumbered from the table to the truck and back - 'working her a - off,' says our spy - she was overheard mumbling, 'I have to do a good job for Crest.'
05/20/2004
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Preacher lady and the Jesus police start mumbling and beseeching G_d to strike me down and boil me in molten tar.
Boing Boing: September 19, 2004 - September 25, 2004 Archives
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She was kinda mumbling to me, kind of clenching down on her teeth a little bit and kind of opening her eyes a little back and forth and taking like gasping respirations," said Sandigo.
KTVU.com - Local News
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Mumbling and spewing obscenities as he staggered about the stage - which he had commandeered by threatening to beat up the previous M.C.
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Again, Robbie complied, mumbling a bit under his breath as he moved the octopus over to the doll.
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I either bluster through and waffle away, mumbling on further and further away from the point in hand, or I go to the other extreme and clam up completely.
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Then, after dinner, when the lamps were lit, and Mrs. Ukridge petted Edwin and sewed, and Ukridge smoked cigars and incited the gramophone to murder "Mumbling Mose," I would steal away to my bedroom and write -- and write -- and _write_ -- and go on writing till my fingers were numb and my eyes refused to do their duty.
Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm
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But he has been mumbling statistics at me solidly, since he got the call from on high.
THE SCAR
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Man, it's going to take her about ten years to figure out where everything is, she thought as she was dragged down the hallway, mumbling sorry to the students she was bashing into.
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Mumbling ‘speech’ was fine on the N64, but on the Xbox, with all its features and whiz-bang technology, is capable of a lot more.
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A full-length commentary features Hill and McDonald offer a rambling, mumbling discussion of the real events behind some of the film's plot points.
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He sits on a folded towel grumbling and mumbling away and, in spite of it all, still looks neat and dapper most of the time.
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So tepid arguments between mumbling, incoherent, misinformed gentlemen speckle the news programmes.
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His media appearances are categorised by barely audible mumblings in one of the thickest Scouse accents you've ever heard.
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Barefooted and clad only in swim trunks (it is too hot for clothing), my busy-bodied better half is mumbling something about cards ... cartes de visite.
Cafés
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Mostly Cs indicates Antisocial tendencies, which are manifest in mumbling into mics and generally hating every aspect of publicity that involves people and talking to them.
Publicist as Psychotherapist: Recognizing and Treating Author Personality Disorders
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Though, once the lights were out, before I fell asleep, all I could hear was Maggie mumbling to herself and rolling around in bed so I just assumed she was asleep.
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Blair gathered up his pack and opened the door, still mumbling to himself.
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You'll understand once you find yourself hunched over the liner notes, devoutly mumbling the lyrics to yourself and bobbing your head to the bursts of pseudo-Russian choruses.
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She made a sleepy mumbling sound and pulled his chilly body close.
Bomber
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The dismal mumblings of everyday business in the House of Commons, the creaking pomposity of the Lords, the ghastly flummery of the state opening (Black Rod and all that) are overlooked.
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I thought I saw McCain mumbling ... as well as stumbling and bumbling.
Your Right Hand Thief
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We started at an Irish place called Baileys, but were slightly put off my the old, skanky guy singing the NZ national anthem next to us and mumbling what I can only think were some kind of greetings to us.
I have an ouchy.
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I would get a voice message mumbling about unusually high call volumes and texts about the urgent need for the washing of hair.
Times, Sunday Times
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She kept mumbling about how'we need to tighten our collars '.
The Sun
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Kyri was mumbling the words to a spell which she finished by laying her hand on Aikel's arm.
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Somehow he reached the succouring hand and clung to it like a drowning man, mumbling the while, "Sorry to intrude upon you, but one of your sons" -- again the name eluded him -- "has broken his arm, and he's in my aunt's cottage.
The Ffolliots of Redmarley
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She kept mumbling about how'we need to tighten our collars '.
The Sun
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Mumbling and feeling awkward, Tristan moved to scoop a spoonful but the spoon hit the bowl and some of it splattered onto Tristan's chest.
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His mumbling, stammering, wincing performance may be a little mannered and actorly.
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And Lee fired the bullet out of her rifle, right after mumbling some annoyed incoherencies.
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This blast of a CD opens up with one long fuzzy overblown riff that is the greatest rejection of the narcissistic tortured mumblings that currently prevail in much of the rock fraternity.
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Even though Science is moving rapidly forward always keep one eye on the mumbling from the shadows.
The Language of Science – it’s “just a theory”
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One wrote: 'Where did this idea that mumbling and muttering makes a drama more realistic?
Times, Sunday Times
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Kate can turn Pete into a mumbling, introspective bore
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Oh, no -- La Fayette was quite content to let him build them for the Irrakwa, mumbling some idiotic excuse like: The Irrakwa are already using steam engines for their spinning wheels, and all the coal is on the American side -- but Frederic de Maurepas knew the truth.
He Don't Know Him