How to Use mumble in a Sentence

mumble

verb

• He mumbled something and then left.
• I can't understand you when you mumble.
• He mumbled “Goodbye” and then left.
• The man mumbled a few words and snatched the car keys out of the woman's hands, the report says.
  — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland.com, 30 Oct. 2017
• And the child’s mother mumbled about me being too old to play with the boys on the block now.
  — Elizabeth Wellington, Philly.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• The report said the male was mumbling and not making sense.
  — Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2018
• Rada and La Cou head the pack; the men are swaying along arm in arm, mumbling a tune.
  — Jason Motlagh, Marie Claire, 18 Jan. 2018
• Down the street, a wild-eyed man sunk into a rolling chair on the sidewalk, shrieking and mumbling.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, latimes.com, 22 June 2018
• In the scene, Terry mumbles the same words over and over again: breathe, sunflower, rainbow, 450, three to the right, four to the left.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 25 Sep. 2019
• The driver, who mumbled her words and smelled like booze, acted drunk.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 18 Dec. 2019
• But many of the women flinched when asked to speak, mumbling out their own names and positions.
  — Tricia Taormina, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Sep. 2017
• Ana mumbling something about the font size for Boyce Fox’s book cover.
  — Peggy Truong, Cosmopolitan, 9 Feb. 2018
• Dozens of good jokes would get thrown out just because one of them had mumbled the line through a mouthful of bacon.
  — Time, 21 Aug. 2023
• When the question of ethics arose, the panelists mumbled uncomfortably and passed the mike.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2023
• The engine note tends to mumble under load but pipes down while cruising.
  — Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 31 May 2023
• A lot of trap and mumble rap — their version of punk, which I’m not supposed to understand, let alone like.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
• Shabby hair, jacket big enough to swim in, one of those faces, a voice that mumbles a low tobacco rasp.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2023
• For a moment, the only sounds were the hurried prayers of the civil servants mumbling under their breath.
  — Rukmini Callimachi, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• John Waters mumbled something — an apology, maybe — and the two of them walked away.
  — Peter Risafi, New York Times, 18 June 2018
• Since then he's been a fixture at the makeshift memorial, crying on his knees, staring at the cross, mumbling things to his wife.
  — Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2019
• When asked for his driver’s license, the man mumbled and looked around slowly, but could not locate the license.
  — cleveland.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• As for Tuesday's tempo, that's what irked Lue the most, causing him to sit down in his chair for the postgame press conference and mumble about how bad the team played.
  — Joe Vardon, cleveland.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• Imagine if getting a divorce only took having to mumble (or email or text) three words to your wife and the whole thing would be over.
  — Matthew Diebel, USA TODAY, 11 May 2017
• The Browns have a way of making anyone who pays attention to them start mumbling and talking to themselves.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 20 Oct. 2019
• His words became rapid, rushed, mumbled and hard to understand.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, Indianapolis Star, 28 Oct. 2019
• Sia, known for mumbling her lyrics, sounds precise and luminous here.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 26 Sep. 2019
• His raspy voice struggled to compete with the loud hums and mumbles of a crowded airliner cabin, but that didn’t stop him.
  — Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• Throughout the hour he was left alone in the white-walled room, Harold Easter mumbled, cried for help, shook and ultimately collapsed.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2023
• The neighbor noticed that McDonald, 34, was pacing back and forth and mumbling, Drake wrote.
  — Julia Sclafani, Daily Pilot, 17 Sep. 2019
• The engine note is a letdown, too, monotonous and mumbling even at full load.
  — Eric Tingwall, Car and Driver, 27 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024