verb
definition
To keep repeating a particular sound involuntarily during speech.
definition
To utter with a stammer, or with timid hesitancy.
example
He blushed, and stammered a few words of apology.
noun
definition
The act of one who stammers.
example
We could not understand his inarticulate stammerings.
Examples of stammering in a Sentence
The stoical Russell Cade was stammering around like a school boy.
I never managed to experience this form of stammering therapy.
Each country began to.lead its own separate existence, stammering its own tongue; the different nations no longer understood one another, and no longer had any general ideas in common.
This repetition of the initial letter does not appear to have been due to his stammering but to have been a mere emphasis on the word.
True, they were broken and stammering syllables; but they were human speech.
He succeeded more nearly than any of his predecessors in expressing or suggesting ideas and emotions which might have been supposed to be capable of translation only in terms of music. " The unconscious self, or rather the sub-conscious self," says Emile Verhaeren, " recognized in the verse and prose of Maeterlinck its language or rather its stammering attempt at language."
The stammering course notes are $ 43.00 or £ 25.00 and are available as either an electronic e-book or in paper format.
Last but not least, most of the work involves the Michael Palin center for stammering children and City University 's COMPASS center.
Aim to build self-esteem so the pupil manages his/her speaking with confidence, even when stammering severely.
Do you want to stand before a crowd of people after a beautiful ceremony stuttering and stammering out a speech?
Simple vocal tics include stuttering, stammering, abnormal emphasis of part of a word or phrase, and inarticulate noises such as throat clearing, grunts, and high-pitched sounds.
Her stammering made it obvious she'd taken at least some of the calls.
He has been a patient at the Betty Ford clinic due to alcoholism, and in 2007 a home video circulated on the internet depicting a drunken Hasselhoff laying on the floor shirtless, stammering and trying to eat a fast food cheeseburger.