How to Use stuttering in a Sentence

stuttering

noun
  • But the stuttering didn’t go away.
    — John Corvino, PEOPLE, 30 Jan. 2026
  • My goal with this book was to tell a life story through the prism of stuttering.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2023
  • And their call is often a deep stuttering series for four or five hoots.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 13 Dec. 2019
  • In spite of my stuttering, my father taught me how to be a good speaker.
    — National Geographic, 26 Feb. 2016
  • Get lost in the forest of your thoughts and the stuttering of your heartbeat.
    — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 20 June 2022
  • Currently, there is no cure for stuttering, and this study is a small step toward that goal.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2016
  • The result makes the game run smoothly, without any frame-rate stuttering.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 20 July 2023
  • The researchers worked with a mutation in a gene that is known to cause stuttering in humans.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2016
  • Rod goes on to address a prominent writer on the right who mocked stuttering.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 24 Aug. 2020
  • But he's always been prone to gaffes and verbal stumbles, some of which are due to his struggles with stuttering.
    — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2020
  • Is the stuttering credit market about to become a problem for stocks.
    — Richard Barley, WSJ, 9 July 2018
  • As females look on, the males point their tails upward, spread their wings, hold their heads low and stamp their feet in a stuttering pattern.
    — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
  • His career was stuttering and nothing seemed assured, least of all her future as a writer.
    — Steve Hendrix, chicagotribune.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Performance is fast and responsive, free of any lag or stuttering.
    — Jason Cipriani, CNN Underscored, 2 July 2020
  • Grump and his fellow dwarves are all here, sneezing, stuttering, complaining and singing.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2018
  • Hannah’s eyes well up as Adam smiles wistfully, stuttering until his words come to a halt.
    — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Many of these eruptions are strombolian, which means the cone emits a stuttering spray of molten rock that collects around its upper rim.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 19 Jan. 2018
  • But Grandpa’s already halfway down the hall, his limp stuttering on the marble.
    — Veronica Chambers, New York Times, 28 June 2019
  • The stream loaded instantly, and the video played without any stuttering or buffering.
    — Max Eddy, PC Magazine, 25 Aug. 2023
  • For 35 years, the actor has been a hero to the stuttering community.
    — WSJ, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Garage door openers are nothing new, but today’s are vast improvements over the stuttering versions of the past.
    — Gabrielle Hondorp, Popular Mechanics, 17 Dec. 2020
  • With each stuttering step, the goal staring back at Andre Ayew seemed to get a little smaller.
    — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Despite the sporting project stuttering, the club has stepped up its efforts over the past year to position itself as a lifestyle brand.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2018
  • From stuttering to jaguars Rabinowitz grew up in New York with a severe stutter.
    — Steve Winter, National Geographic, 21 Aug. 2019
  • With read speeds of up to 100 Mbps, games on Switch have no stuttering issues, and run fast and reliably.
    — Harry Rabinowitz, Popular Mechanics, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Our first test flights of the Mini 2 were free of any stuttering or lag in the video feed due to objects like trees being between the controller and drone.
    — Jason Cipriani, CNN Underscored, 4 Nov. 2020
  • Gearbox has already issued multiple patches to try and reduce stuttering/frame drops.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • In contrast to a body that’s shedding water like a roof in a rainstorm, my newly upholstered mouth makes any word, any sound, begin with a stuttering cough.
    — Hazlitt, 20 Sep. 2023
  • There’s also no visual stuttering—a bed frame, pause, a nightstand, another pause, perhaps a floor lamp to fill the room’s empty corner.
    — Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 25 June 2026
  • The Chicago rapper Saba recalls a lost teenage friendship, over a dreamy mix of chirping birds and stuttering beats.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2022

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