stutter

How To Use stutter In A Sentence

• Aidan squeaked, with an added stutter because he was suddenly nervous.
• He delivered some stuttering public performances. Times, Sunday Times
• Flashback sequences, talking dogs and stuttering pictures add to the general air of unease which the film carries.
• Similarly, in ‘Darska,’ Rimbaud overlays a stuttering beat with the rising chords of a church organ and voices.
• The McGuire programme, which helped him, also enabled Pop Idol Gareth Gates to overcome his stutter and go on to chart success.
• Althouse: FWIW, I read that sentence as you meant it because I'm used to your writing, familiar with your views and know what you're referring to, but I did "stutter" for a second to make that adjustment ... in pretty much the exact way I do when I'm editing for pay something which I then "flag" for the following author query: "Are you confident everyone will read this as you intend it be understood? "The Optimum Population Trust... says each baby born in Britain will... burn carbon roughly equivalent to 2½ acres of old-growth oak woodland...."
• It overheated, it clunked, it smoked, stuttered, spluttered and on more than one occasion - blew up.
• The admission of the Brisbane Bears and the West Coast Eagles into the Victorial Football League was the most significant step in the stuttering progress towards a national competition.
• My lips parted in my confusion, and I stuttered a bit, embarrassingly, in my need to comprehend exactly what it was he was saying, ‘W-what?’
• Her face turns paler, she stutters a bit and then finally she leaves with her stupid, moronic girlfriends.