How to Use stutter in a Sentence

stutter

1 of 2 verb

• I used to stutter when I was a child.
• She stutters when she gets excited.
• Real Madrid have also stuttered at the start of the season.
  — SI.com, 22 Sep. 2017
• People who stutter want to speak for themselves, so don’t try to speak for them.
  — Catie Wegman, sun-sentinel.com, 21 June 2019
• But her campaign has often stuttered over the past few weeks.
  — Jill Lawless, The Seattle Times, 7 June 2017
• Springer is a spokesman for the two-week summer camp that benefits kids and teens who stutter.
  — USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2017
• Irma's forward motion slowed to 6 mph as the storm stuttered off the coast of Cuba.
  — CBS News, 10 Sep. 2017
• Sam turns on her heel as the woman starts to stutter an apology.
  — Jojo Moyes, Marie Claire, 12 Oct. 2016
• Doing all this on the UI thread is bad for app performance since any hangups will make your app stutter.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 10 Feb. 2022
• In recent years, there have been more and more headlines about people who stutter.
  — Xiaofan Lei, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2022
• The playing was a bit ragged (more than one entrance stuttered), but colors and effects were vivid.
  — Matthew Guerrieri, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
• There is evidence that growth is stuttering in the United States and China — the world’s top two economies.
  — Mark Thompson, CNN, 4 June 2023
• Bautista broke for home but was left stuttering toward the plate and was easily thrown out.
  — Seth Berkman, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2016
• The stuttering Chinese car market just got more fuel, but not enough to take it very far.
  — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 3 June 2019
• In Sinclair's place, Lindsey Horan took the shot and stuttered on her attempt.
  — Jamie Goldberg, OregonLive.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• Michigan may stutter early, but the Wolverines should pull away late.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 2 Sep. 2021
• So the image appears to stutter and blur, especially in shots that pan across the scene too quickly.
  — Whitson Gordon, Wired, 6 Apr. 2021
• The consequence of all these edits is that the pacing frequently stutters, and in fact sometimes grinds to a halt.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 30 June 2019
• Others stutter out a few words and fall suddenly silent.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• Israeli artillery was on Ain Ebel’s doorstep, and Diab never stuttered.
  — Matt Bradley, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2023
• Some could be seen running in stuttering patterns on the horizon.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 29 Apr. 2020
• Any time Chip 'N Dale's momentum appears to stutter, the film offers up a dose of humor and whimsy.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 20 May 2022
• But Lindsey Horan stuttered on her penalty kick attempt and the shot was stopped by Bledsoe.
  — Tim Brown, OregonLive.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• The Real Madrid man endured a difficult evening as his side stuttered to a 1-1 draw against a resilient Iran side and his penalty miss summed up his evening.
  — SI.com, 27 June 2018
• In the course of my reporting this article, sources would stutter and shut down whenever dams came up.
  — Christopher Cox Spencer Lowell, New York Times, 22 June 2023
• Instead, electronic kick drums flinch and stutter while renegade synth melodies squirm around the music’s edges.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2020
• But that doesn’t happen in children who continue to stutter.
  — Amber Dance Knowable Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Sep. 2020
• Operating out of the slot below against Ohio State, Bryant stutters to sell a run block, before breaking in and making a nice grab in traffic.
  — Ellis L. Williams, cleveland, 6 May 2020
• Every constant was unmade; the maps were redrawn; and the old, steady rhythm of life stuttered and pulsed erratically.
  — Cory Doctorow, Slate Magazine, 22 May 2017
• Europe has stuttered since the disappearance of cheap Russian oil and gas in the wake of sanctions that followed the country’s invasion of Ukraine.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 6 Feb. 2024

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stutter

2 of 2 noun

• Bateman ran a stutter and go to get free of Melvin, who bit on the first move.
  — Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Nov. 2019
• Smith will use his slick stutter-short club move to beat a guard and record his first sack in five years.
  — John Owning, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2020
• Mixon did a stutter-step at the line of scrimmage to cut outside the tackle.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 20 Oct. 2021
• This is not the first time that Biden's stutter has become a talking point in his bid for the White House.
  — Justin L. MacK, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Oct. 2020
• That fear of rejection, that fear of failure might be a form of a stutter.
  — Karl Moore, Forbes, 11 May 2021
• As a schoolboy, Biden was mocked by classmates and a nun for a severe stutter.
  — Steve Peoples, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2020
• Worse is the general sense of stutter that plagues this week's world-premiere version of the mode.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2020
• At no point did the device stutter or even feel all that warm at its center, where the M2 package lives.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 26 Oct. 2022
• Ashford hit a stutter-step move to get past a defender and broke two tackles on the way to a first down.
  — al, 25 Sep. 2022
• Biden retains the traces of a childhood stutter and has long been prone to gaffes or verbal stumbles.
  — Cameron Joseph, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
• Ramos, who killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde last month, was said to have been bullied over a lisp and stutter.
  — Tim Meko, Washington Post, 3 June 2022
• Vela stutter-stepped slowly to the ball, then buried a low left-footed shot into the right corner.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2022
• His stutter release freezes Humphrey enough for Gallup to win inside.
  — Ellis L. Williams, cleveland, 12 Dec. 2020
• Fetterman had just suffered a stroke, and Biden grew up with a stutter.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 18 Nov. 2022
• Races up and down the ballot are stutter-stepping toward the finish line.
  — Alden Woods, The Arizona Republic, 6 Nov. 2020
• Worst of all, this sensitive boy developed a stutter around the age of eight.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2023
• Her brother, Bentley, who's 3 feet 8 inches, has blue eyes and short brown hair and speaks with a stutter.
  — Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 29 Jan. 2020
• In the midst of all this, when Dalton was 15, another kind of calamity struck: His stutter came back.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
• Had Biden read the recent article in The Atlantic about his stutter?
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2019
• As a child, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. wrestled with words, grappling with a stutter.
  — Lisa Lerer New York Times, Star Tribune, 20 Jan. 2021
• Her father, a shy man who suffered from a bad stutter, was then thrust onto the throne to become King George VI.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 8 Sep. 2022
• Biden spoke of his experience with teachers who helped him as a child with a stutter.
  — Erin Einhorn, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2019
• Apps opened quickly, video streaming on my Wi-Fi 6 home network was smooth and stutter-free.
  — Dwight Silverman, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• Withers was dogged by a stutter that remained well into his late teens.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2020
• Near the red zone, Young stutter-stepped and tried to beat a defensive back before dipping right and juking back left.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 3 Sep. 2022
• On a 16-yard touchdown run in the first quarter, Brooks stutter-stepped by a couple defenders and shed one weak arm tackle on the way to the end zone.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Dec. 2021
• Blunt discovered early on how to work around her childhood stutter, which still flares up from time to time.
  — Maria Yagoda, Peoplemag, 11 Nov. 2022
• This means if your system drops from 60 frames to 57, your display will refresh at that rate to match the dip and avoid a stutter in your image, which is called a screen tear.
  — Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 23 July 2021
• By the end of elementary school, to Dalton’s relief, the stutter had faded away.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
• Biden, who has a stutter, often speaks in a whisper, sometimes tripping over his words, Stromer-Galley said.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024