How To Use Stammer In A Sentence

A speech therapist helped him overcome his stammer.
Whenever he was angry he would begin to stammer slightly.
‘Good boy,’ he finally grunted when he was sure he could speak without stammering.
I stammer something about the duty-free shops at Sydney airport. Times, Sunday Times
The man stammered over his words for a moment before he finally managed to regain the power of speech.

A stammering child can benefit from speech therapy.
Jas Duke was the artist who turned the infliction of a stammer into some of the greatest performance poetry ever.
Neurasthenia, stammering, aversions, kleptomania, certain cases of paralysis, are nothing but the result of unconscious autosuggestion, that is to say the result of the action of the _unconscious_ upon the physical and moral being. Maîtrise de soi-même par l'autosuggestion consciente. English
He stammered something and went very red in the face.
I admired his fearlessness with Couples, marvelled at the word acrobatics in the Rabbit series, read of his psoriasis, childhood stammering and problems of self-image, counted the novels and short stories and wondered, 'How does he do it?' Daily News & Analysis
The Chaplain is plainly uncertain, as he wrestles with the clerical guillotine of washable xylonite, and stammers something about unwarrantable liberty and a lady's reputation! The Dop Doctor
Karim, whose excellent English labours under a debilitating stammer, says: ‘My neighbours are very good people.’
When someone asks me what business I am in I become embarrassed stutter and stammer.
This wouldn't be much of a play, so Donaghy tells it in stammers and dithers, fragmented verbiage and non sequiturs, inchoate bits and overlapping dialogue, aposiopesis and time lags (a question is answered three or four lines later).
Now _that_ would have been what I called thrilling, real thrilling, especially if he jumped or grew red, or white, or stammered, or stopped short, or anything to show that he'd seen us -- and cared. Mary Marie
Once the vicious circle is established - of anxiety about speech = stammer = anxiety about speech - the stammer feeds on itself. Stammering in Young Children
It would be considered somewhat rude to barge into your boss's house,’ he stammered.
He doesn't attempt the stammer, the dandyish manner, the cigarette ostentatiously clamped between the middle fingers.
Her tongue stammered and faulted with rage.
She stammers when she feels nervous.
She sensed the stammer in my voice and hugged me tightly.
He was always tongue-tied and telegraphic; in fact, he stammered; but whether it was a verbal or a moral stammer Shevek had never decided. THE DISPOSSESSED
Sitting towards the back of the hall was an inconspicuous, balding, bespectacled man with a slight stammer.
No stammer in last nine months. Stammering in Young Children
There might be a slight stammer but otherwise the speech will seem normal.
The "correction' stops and the stammer decreases and goes on decreasing. Stammering in Young Children
Taken aback, she stammeringly asked them, ‘Are you sure your commanding officer sent you to the right address?’
Whenever he was angry he would begin to stammer slightly.
If he has attempted speech he has probably got no further than an initial stammer that has gone unnoticed by the rest of the family. Stammering in Young Children
In my experience nine months of fluency must be maintained before one can say with confidence that the stammer has been overcome. Stammering in Young Children
Lack of discipline, inconsistent discipline and unreasonable discipline lead to emotional frustrations that cause or increase stammering. Stammering in Young Children
Sophie proves to be a pretty, overanxious, often stammering young woman, sometimes unable to finish a spoken sentence.
Neruda is master of a living world in turmoil, and his expression is at times scarcely more than a sibylline stammer, a primitive muttering.
The grandson of the speech therapist who helped King George VI deal with his stammer is backing a campaign to protect his legacy from spending cuts. The King's Speech: spending cuts threaten £765m legacy of speech and language therapy
‘Yes we met at the Farquar ball a couple of months before,’ Bertie said shocked that he did not stammer one word in that sentence.
My stammer would make me completely unable to say a sentence properly, but I didn't want this ever to get in the way of what I wanted to do.
From there she found nervy roles and they found her: an explosive pro boxer in "Fighting Words," a stuttering, seizure prone South Londoner in Sarah Kane's "Blasted," and a stammering aphasic in Sam Shepherd's "A Lie of the Mind. Meeting Her Match
The rain turned from warm and pleasurable to cold and assaulting, and my teeth chattered, my words stammered, because of it.
In this way they give rise to the symptoms which we meet in hysteria and psychasthenia -- fears, phobias, obsessions, and tics, like stammering. Introduction to the Science of Sociology
‘Eh, I am going to my friend's home for studying,’ I stammered, rather afraid I will be chided for telling the truth.
Michael O'Shea, who is over the McGuire Programme's Waterford support group, said the programme provided help and support to people with this speech problem by teaching them a technique that enables them to speak without stammering.
After that my vocabulary runs out of obscure polysyllabic words and I'm forced to just stutter, stammer and blurt out something like Oh yeah? Facebook for Fishing?
The second was when he told us how he had overcome his stammer, saying he had received loads of help from a vet. Times, Sunday Times
People who stammer aren't ill. Times, Sunday Times
She helped him to control his own temper and partly to overcome his disabling stammer. The Times Literary Supplement
Meet other people who stammer: they can help and inspire you. Times, Sunday Times
Studies suggest stammering is linked to a defect in the left hemisphere of the brain. The Sun
I'm stammering around my room in a daze, those sickening high frequency synths still slicing into me like daggers.
‘H-hello,’ she stammered, slipping back briefly into a childhood stammer.
Birkin, a Londoner who has survived the Great War but is left with a stammer, a nervous twitch, and vivid nightmares, is given the summer job of uncovering a mediaeval wall-painting in the church of a small Yorkshire village.
Once the vicious circle is established - of anxiety about speech = stammer = anxiety about speech - the stammer feeds on itself. Stammering in Young Children
He was “queer,” she said; and at another time she called him a crank when describing how he sat at the counter and peered at her through his spectacles, blushing and stammering when she took notice of him, and often leaving the shop in precipitate confusion. THE ENEMY OF ALL THE WORLD
Even that mere hesitation in speech, know as stammering, he deems This Simian World
Many children stammer but grow out of it.
Da Vinci is almost the only TV program I can think of where people speak as they do in real life: they stammer, trail off, repeat themselves, go on unrelated tangents, and loop back into continuing conversations.
Billy's stammering voice called pleadingly, 'St-stand back, ca-can't you, and gi-give him air.' Tracy Park
In a send-up of best picture Oscar nominee "The King's Speech, " a Razzie presenter wearing a crown feigned a stammer as he read names of the worst screenplays.
He knew he was ready, knew it was real, knew it was her, and the words came without a stutter or a stammer.
Whenever he was angry he would begin to stammer slightly.
Here I am, a distinguished public speaker, stuttering and stammering, at a complete loss for words.
I got all stammery and blushy and told him, I have to meet her. Photobooth friday: feeling the lurve
But by the end of the year guess who was speaking quasi-fluently and who was still stammering and stuttering and all too frequently referring to his pocket dictionnaire to make sure he got everything perfect before it came out. Best Tips for Learning French - French Word-A-Day
I stammer something about the duty-free shops at Sydney airport. Times, Sunday Times
What a revenge that would be, the proud and haughty Roman, the greatest flunker of them all, the Roman of the caustic tongue and the all-seeing eye, actually clinging to his hand, stammering out his thanks ... the Roman whose mocking voice still echoed in his memory, "Don't dream, John, don't do it! Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World
She'll start acting coy, and then suddenly blink, stammer, turn red, and hurry off quickly or, if we're in our room (this semester we have a free period at the same time), she buries her nose in a book.
I was amazed one day when a footman, who had committed some _bevue_ or blunder, or apprehended something, actually turned pale and stammered with terror when Lord Memoirs
But a tendency to choke is no more a character failing than a nervous twitch or a persistent stammer. Times, Sunday Times
His partner meanwhile, burst into the room, pistol in hand, the stammerer hard on his heels.
How can you give a rousing speech if you stammer? Times, Sunday Times
Sitting towards the back of the hall was an inconspicuous, balding, bespectacled man with a slight stammer.
How can you give a rousing speech if you stammer? Times, Sunday Times
Every time he looked at her, he felt like a small boy, stammering over his words, or saying something absolutely inane.
The second was when he told us how he had overcome his stammer, saying he had received loads of help from a vet. Times, Sunday Times
We are suddenly, when we stammer and pause, in a position to gauge the difference language makes, the revelation that if we cannot name something there is a real sense in which we do not have it.
Reminds me of a certain directrix of my acquaintance ... *sentence trails off as the speaker begins to stammer* Madame Riccoboni
He had a tendency to stammer when he was nervous, which he always seemed to be when he was summoned by Mordred.
The need for evolving and coordinating these approach of clinical evaluation of a patient can be appreciated if I realize that many common signs such as dark circles around eyes, early graying of hair, perspiration in palms, or feet, stammering, the peculiar melanization associated with pregnancy on the one hand and alcoholics on the other are hardly understood in terms of the physiological/pathophysiological processes and mechanisms involved in them. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
It also brought out that the young Erika had a speech impediment - a stammer that was so bad she had to go to a special school for one year!
How can you give a rousing speech if you stammer? Times, Sunday Times
He stammered, he stuttered, he stopped to look over notes and he forgot what he was saying plenty of times.
While Richard Pryor is a funny guy - stuttering and stammering are his best qualities - the script doesn't include enough laughs to warrant its 102 minute running time.
The young schoolgirl with the stammer in Switzerland has become a very poised public speaker in Pattaya.
The Romans would have stammered over their famous sheets of writings; they would have been grimly listened to, then skinned alive. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
Everyday language, involving a system of logical entailment, has to fall back into a kind of stammering utterance or pure exclamation.
Whenever he was angry he would begin to stammer slightly.
He stammers excuses, she is in the background yelling and he is calling her names.
Now that would have been what I called thrilling, real thrilling, especially if he jumped or grew red, or white, or stammered, or stopped short, or anything to show that he'd seen us -- and cared. Mary Marie
When I started stammering something about plans I already had, Claire squashed all my hopes for getting out of it.
Vicki's face must have flushed vermillion as she stammered, ‘Uh, er, n-no.’
He had a very bad stammer and I think he felt angry about his lot in life. Times, Sunday Times
I gulped, and then looked away quickly before the power of Jonas' gaze hypnotized me into a stammering idiot.
Lamb's defects were his qualities, and nature drove them inward, concentrating, fortifying, intensifying them; to a not wholly normal or healthy brain, freakish and without consecution, adding a stammering tongue which could not speak evenly, and had to do its share, as the brain did, 'by fits.' Figures of Several Centuries
He dialled 999 and stammered his name and address.
Claire stammered, trying to modify her rôle as comforter. DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLY
Of a previous existence I know no more than others, for all have stammering intimations that may be memories and may be dreams.
– pezmiztix – “not sure what all the stammering is about in here. foreign campaign contributions certainly drove obama to victory last year.” Think Progress » Cornyn Hypocritically Accuses Democrats Of ‘Hysterical’ Reaction To Right-Wing Judicial Activism
It could be construed as a brave choice because - though you'd never know it from watching him in character - Dimsdale has a noticeable stammer, something that could be seen as a big drawback in a profession where the voice is paramount.
Her stammer inhibited her but she had one ace up her sleeve.
If he has attempted speech he has probably got no further than an initial stammer that has gone unnoticed by the rest of the family. Stammering in Young Children
Most children who stammer grow out of it.
The stand-out performance is that of her as Julienne, trying to articulate unutterable emotions in a faltering stammer that is simultaneously funny and sad.
People who stammer aren't ill. Times, Sunday Times
He stammered a few syllables and shifted his feet.
And there I had been, stammering and stuttering until I found my voice, until I finally showed her that I had a little bit of something in me - words that could be angry, something other than timidity or shyness.
Even now, stammering has remained a confusing speech impediment for the sufferer as well as for those who have attempted to cure it through medicines.
He's always had a slight stammer.
Anyways-what is going on is that he is remembering the cliche-but getting it backwards-go google the cliche-Obama inverts the delivery-the stammering is a stall for recall. And the McCain campaign is not giving Obama a pass on the Lipsticked Pig remark.
The McGuire Programme has helped thousands of people overcome the debilitating effects of stammering.
Brae followed cautiously, and Chase stood behind him stammering his misgivings.
Howland was a brave man; he had already showed both strength and prowess when, washed overboard in a "seel" of the ship, and carried fathoms deep in mid-ocean, he caught the topsail-halyards swept over with him and clung to them until he was rescued in spite of the raging wind and waves that repeatedly dragged him under; nor in the face of savage foe, or savage beast, or peril by land or sea, was John Howland ever known less than the foremost; but now in face of this angry woman he found naught to say, and blushing and stammering and half laughing fairly turned and ran away, springing up the stairs to the elevated deck cabins, in one of which Elder Brewster and his family had their lodging. Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims
As he stammers, then bellows the last chorus of ‘(Do Not Feed The) Oyster ’, the kingdom rejoices: Their prince is free.
The baby-faced A-level student, who viewers have seen struggling to overcome his stammer, promises ‘to work hard and give my fans everything they deserve for giving me this opportunity’.
It took him a while to realize who she was and he immediately obeyed, stammering and stuttering with his words as he complied.
Intrepid says: pezmiztix says: not sure what all the stammering is about in here. foreign campaign contributions certainly drove obama to victory last year. Think Progress » Cornyn Hypocritically Accuses Democrats Of ‘Hysterical’ Reaction To Right-Wing Judicial Activism
He would often practise his speeches for many hours and had a slight stammer and lisp.
Suddenly sorry for lashing out, she stammered an apology.
A stammering child can benefit from speech therapy.
The courses were held in the town for four days, and Gareth, pictured right, who conquered a severe stammer and recently became a speech therapist, gave his first lessons teaching some of the 100 students who attended the course.
I stammer something about the duty-free shops at Sydney airport. Times, Sunday Times
But a tendency to choke is no more a character failing than a nervous twitch or a persistent stammer. Times, Sunday Times
Benjamin stammered out an apologetic request - how he would appreciate it if no one else was told about our visit.
A speech therapist helped him overcome his stammer.
He kind of blushed and stammered, "I'm already married. Live. laugh. love.
He falters, stammers, falls back on grand anachronisms and speaks with a thick accent.
He had a very bad stammer and I think he felt angry about his lot in life. Times, Sunday Times
He never styles himself an Everyman, and makes an issue of his speech impediment: ‘It's a stammer, not scat jazz.’
A stammering child can benefit from speech therapy.
They highlighted the fact that many famous people with a stammer, including Winston Churchill and Marilyn Monroe, managed to overcome their speech defect.
'I'm a great admirer of yours,' she managed to stammer.
Part of the problem is not that people stammer per se, but that other people treat them badly because they have trouble expressing themselves quickly. Times, Sunday Times
In the pregenital stage of libido development there are two important phases that enter into the stammering neurosis, namely, the earlier oral stage and the later anal-sadistic stage. Knotted Tongues
_Ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma_, the Chinese stammeringly say, and if the pitch and tone of each _ma_ are right, the meaning of the apparent repetition is, "Does Mother scold the horses, or will the horses scold Mother? Beard
Neurasthenia, stammering, aversions, kleptomania, certain cases of paralysis, are nothing but the result of unconscious autosuggestion, that is to say the result of the action of the _unconscious_ upon the physical and moral being. Maîtrise de soi-même par l'autosuggestion consciente. English
There are no clear-cut answers to the baffling problem of the cause of stammering. Stammering in Young Children
In my experience nine months of fluency must be maintained before one can say with confidence that the stammer has been overcome. Stammering in Young Children
She was barely able to stammer out a description of her attacker.
If he has attempted speech he has probably got no further than an initial stammer that has gone unnoticed by the rest of the family. Stammering in Young Children
The children teased the boy because of his stammer
At times this requires backtracking in order to regain the thread of meaning/imagery, stammering the poem's impact.
The defendant, a strange looking young man who appeared dull-witted, stammered unintelligibly as he struggled to tell his version of the facts.
Crisp rose awkwardly, stammering a greeting and almost chewed off his tongue before falling silent and blushing, his pale features flushed, marred only by the slight bruising from where he had been struck by the man in the city.
But a tendency to choke is no more a character failing than a nervous twitch or a persistent stammer. Times, Sunday Times
Stuttering (or stammering, as it is often called in Britain) is probably the best known and most researched speech disorder, but perhaps the most difficult to define, to explain, and to treat, especially in adults.
She helped him to control his own temper and partly to overcome his disabling stammer. The Times Literary Supplement
"Take it; oh, you must!" he stammered, and thrust the envelope into the bib of her apron and ran back to his room, groaning and frowning as if he had hurt himself.
‘Uh, uh, yeah,’ he stammered, a bit mesmerized by her bewitching presence.
He explains that each pitch typically lasts two to three minutes before judges either pull the ripcord on the stammering pathetic loser and his harebrained scheme, or persevere with the kook's chef-d'oeuvre. UK Faces Of The Week, March 13 - 17
Both of us blushed deep colors and stammered apologies.
I stopped him before he got into a bus, stammered some words of praise for his honesty, and wished him well for the elections.
It indicates a lack of deep insight into historical developments when today people who call themselves folkish make a great point of assuring us over and over that they do not plan to engage in negative criticism, but only in constructive work; this absurd childish stammering is 'folkish' in the worst sense and shows how little trace the history even of their own times has left in these minds. Mein Kampf
As I stammered my way to buying a bag of apples, and my classmates donned other wacky guises, Ralph hovered close by to cast a critical eye and ear over our performances.
The "correction' stops and the stammer decreases and goes on decreasing. Stammering in Young Children
He had a very bad stammer and I think he felt angry about his lot in life. Times, Sunday Times
He has fulfilled two of his dreams, firstly overcoming his stammer and secondly helping others.
We, a young couple, novices in bringing up children, had gifted a stammer to our eldest-born.
He stammered, a tomato red blush creeping up his neck.
Just snatched from the cradle and hastily weaned, they mouth the rules of Priscian and Donatus; while still beardless boys they gabble with childish stammering the Categorics and Peri The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
‘Extremely sorry,’ stammered Watkins, assisting himself to currie and parsley and butter, in the extremity of his confusion. Sketches by Boz
John's constant unsuccessful attempts to gain his father's attention and approval, coupled with being forced to write with his right hand, are the reasons he gives for his developing a stammer and his subsequent lack of self-esteem.
But, no! no! I tell you, no! You shall never be able to utter more than _pec, pec, pec_; and while with your mouths open you are stammering and stuttering to get out _cavi_, Satan and his blackguards shall come and peck you, even as crows peck carrion. The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
Can I-- can I--" he stammered, blushing, meaning to finish with "direct you," or "show you the way. The Literary World Seventh Reader
The rain turned from warm and pleasurable to cold and assaulting, and my teeth chattered, my words stammered, because of it.
Mr. Richardson was so stunned that he could barely stammer thank you as Mrs. Obama scooped a helping of mushroom risotto onto his plate this month.
Jeff spoke with a slight stammer.
And the mysterious opening sequence, in which a teenage boy is cured of his stammer by a hypnotist, eludes explanation and classification.
What used to be known academically as dysphemia is called stammering in Great Britain and stuttering in the United States. Knotted Tongues
Roxanne accepted the gifts, stammering her thanks.
Carl observed that when Preston spoke these words he did not stammer once over the names themselves.
Or, rather, those drunken scorners who in stammering style imitated Isaiah's warnings to mock them [Maurer] (Isa 28: 7-11, 13, 14, 22; 29: 20); in this view, translate, "speak uprightly" (agreeably to the divine law); not as English Version, referring to the distinctness of articulation, "plainly. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Mike hadn't said a word as he stammered a list of worries, concerns and fears - but he had listened.
A speech therapist helped him overcome his stammer.
Once the vicious circle is established - of anxiety about speech = stammer = anxiety about speech - the stammer feeds on itself. Stammering in Young Children
He closed the door before she could stammer out her explanation.
Nothing is quite so disconcerting as the idea of stammering or stopping short. Poise: How to Attain It
He was not a confident public speaker, perhaps haunted by the memory of a stammer that for many years had dogged his youth. Times, Sunday Times
I was quite taken aback, and before I could find myself had sillily stammered, “I — I am a gentleman.” Chapter 3
She stammered, quickly plucking her favorite perfume off of her dresser and spraying some on.
Give me some time to stammer, stutter and stumble my way through this.
A few of us passed Harold, patted him on the back and stammered ill-fitting words of sympathy.
Quiet strums and broken, stammering chords suddenly twist into intense breaks of almost classical Spanish guitar and deep south string picking.
The stammering policeman spun around, tripped on the rusty pot, and all but crashed to the ground.
They stammer out their glissandi woes in a sort of fugal chaos, with the orchestra and its chorus washing over them with dark chords and fraying melodic lines. Pilar Jurado's Blank Page
His winces and stammers come from the one bag of acting tricks, marked ‘flopsweat.’
In my experience nine months of fluency must be maintained before one can say with confidence that the stammer has been overcome. Stammering in Young Children
‘When I was in my teens, I had a terrible stammer,’ he says.
He explains that each pitch typically lasts two to three minutes before judges either pull the ripcord on the stammering pathetic loser and his harebrained scheme, or persevere with the kook's chef-d'oeuvre. UK Faces Of The Week, March 13 - 17
Already it's rare to find a national politician in the US who won't attempt to stammer a few words of ‘Spanglish’ whenever they might court new amigos.
Sweaty, stammering and hyperactive, Lemmon seemed to embody the countertype of the monumental, granite-jawed leading WN.com - Articles related to Signs of a Pickup in Asia's Job Markets
And Angus he was fair mad, I can tell ye, and he said to Wilson, 'Thoo stammerin' and yammerin 'taistrel, thoo; I'll pluck a lock of thy threep. The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance
Y-- yes," stammered Milo, still battling with the idea of bluffing this calmly authoritative man. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story
How can you give a rousing speech if you stammer? Times, Sunday Times
Meet other people who stammer: they can help and inspire you. Times, Sunday Times
Are you Miss Plumstead, and did you expect to meet your father here?" he asked kindly, while Sylvia slipped her arms from his neck and looked very confused, for it is not pleasant to rush about the world hugging the wrong people, and her blushes were a sight to see as she stammered out an incoherent apology for her blunder. The Adventurous Seven Their Hazardous Undertaking
We must not try to play off the boy troubled with a stammer.
On one side its a plaything; they play at being a parliament, and Im neither young enough nor old enough to find amusement in playthings; and on the other side (he stammered) its a means for the coterie of the district to make money. Chapter V. Part I
Benjamin stammered out an apologetic request - how he would appreciate it if no one else was told about our visit.
The second was when he told us how he had overcome his stammer, saying he had received loads of help from a vet. Times, Sunday Times
Gibil stepped back as he stammered his challenge.
When pressed for a reason why, she stammered over her words, not realizing that she might be taken to task for her own misogyny.
Studies suggest stammering is linked to a defect in the left hemisphere of the brain. The Sun

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