as in mutter
speech that is not clear enough to be understood
please answer the question without your usual mumble and try to use complete sentences
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as in to mutter
to speak softly and unclearly
I can't understand you if you mumble
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Recent Examples of mumble
Joshua Cohen, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
This female victim, however, was being particularly combative, struggling to free her arms from the straps and mumbling incoherently.
—Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024
Advertisement Haddix mumbled her thanks and slammed her screen down.
—Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2024
When mumbling their prayers over rosary beads, their tongues turned thick and foreign.
—Victor Lodato, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
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Verb
Another guy mumbled to himself, squatting on cardboard in front of a bank.
—Joshua Cohen, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
This female victim, however, was being particularly combative, struggling to free her arms from the straps and mumbling incoherently.
—Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024
Advertisement Haddix mumbled her thanks and slammed her screen down.
—Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2024
When mumbling their prayers over rosary beads, their tongues turned thick and foreign.
—Victor Lodato, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
See all Example Sentences for mumble
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mumble
Verb
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The soldiers muttered encouragement; their horses nickered.—
Tom Vanden Brook,
USA TODAY,
6 Jan. 2025
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Philippe Myers knelt on the side of Canada’s busiest highway and muttered a few curse words about his luck.—
Joshua Kloke,
The Athletic,
4 Jan. 2025
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The whispers rise, a hum, a din— China’s AI, set to win.—
Emily Forlini,
PCMAG,
28 Jan. 2025
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More powerful and vivid than captured on record, her singing moved from faint, vulnerable whispers to urgent, shrill-free belting that often carried without the aid of effects.—
Bob Gendron,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Jan. 2025
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In no uncertain terms, Hwang is telling us that the grunts, the everyday people who suffer under capitalist institutions, will be forced to become the architects of their own liberation.—
Meredith Blake,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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Either way, that's still significant grunt from what's essentially a lawnmower engine.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
14 Dec. 2024
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“Mumble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mumble. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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