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US
/ˈmətɝɪŋ/
]
[ UK /mˈʌtəɹɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /mˈʌtəɹɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech
- a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone
How To Use muttering In A Sentence
- Two bus-rides and a walk in the rain later we found the old dairy farm, muttering under our breaths about the wisdom of locating such an establishment way out in the sticks.
- Affecting someone's conscience by grace and restraint does not mean rolling over and playing dead, muttering meaningless politically correct platitudes, or remaining silent as many find it politic to do.
- Beyond shakings of heads and dark mutterings, I can get nothing out of Wada or the steward. CHAPTER XXXI
- Then he fell back on the bed and tossed about as though he was in the throes of a poison, muttering through clenched teeth.
- From beyond the doors, the hubbub still continued; but it trailed off, damped by the hush of those in front to a kind of shamefaced muttering. Funeral Games
- You see them muttering together in corners, their skin grey and baggy and their unbrushed hair matted with Playdoh.
- She basically went all to pieces and I spent more than an hour angrily muttering and refolding every piece of linen in the closet so that when I was finished, it looked like this.
- Muttering some more apologies, which Rose echoed, he went with her down the road. UNREASONABLE DOUBT
- No wonder the guy muttering the prayers over the burial plot has a wireless phone receiver permanently fixed to his right ear. Times, Sunday Times
- I can see "purring," and even "muttering," which brings to mind bits of charred wood falling with little thunks. Languagehat.com: MURMURING?
