I think I'd have been inclined to shuffle about and mumble something unintelligible. |
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Able only to mumble coded secrets, poets often seem the village idiots so wickedly satirized by Woody Allen's Love and Death. |
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The soldiers would mumble rude things at us under their breath, so we learned to be deaf to them, or pretend to be. |
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I become flushed and flustered and I start to mumble nonsensically like the village idiot. |
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The soft mumble of laughter and talk began to subside as I felt myself fall deeper. |
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His voice trailed off into an absorbed mumble as he tried to jot everything down. |
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I didn't quite catch all the lyrics myself, but if you just mumble it and think patriotic thoughts you should be right. |
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She let her voice go right down to a mumble at the end and looked up to meet his sympathetic brown eyes. |
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Campbell, who narrates the film in a sad, recriminatory mumble, somehow manages to make the character affecting. |
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Every now and then he heard a mumble or something else that caused him to sneak a quick peek at her. |
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His speech is something between a muffle and a mumble, a perpetual whisper beneath the breath. |
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A couple of kids chimed in and their voices were lost in a huge mumble of slurred vowels and consonances in my scrambled brain. |
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Usually, an assuming policeman would come on screen and mumble something about a new lead in the process to track down the culprits. |
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If you can't hum quietly, then mumble loudly these wallopy words under your breath. |
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I mumble a noncommittal reply and decide not to mention the TV series I present. |
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She heard him mumble something indistinct, and he tried to spit at her, but his aim left a lot to be desired. |
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Everyone looked over, stared at Carmen, then proceeded to mumble their greetings and introductions as the lift ascended. |
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Characters speak in unison, repeat phrases obsessively, deliver lines supine on the floor, break up sentences illogically, or mumble sotto voce. |
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As I couldn't quite find the words to respond to that, I decided a mumble and a nod of the head would suffice. |
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There wasn't a laugh, a giggle, or even a small mumble, just gawking with her mouth wide open. |
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There's a mumble of gibberish, broken words, broken thoughts, and I realize that my brother can't talk anymore. |
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His voice dropped to a mumble, his grip on my wrist loosened and he stopped struggling so much. |
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The dark-haired boy buried his face further into Sully's neck, answering Sully's sleepy inquiry with a incoherent mumble. |
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It came out as a mumble with all the stuffed bread in his mouth. |
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Today, I'm told, the people of Basra whisper and mumble about the intifada, but only among family members at home or in tearooms with their most intimate friends. |
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They mutter and mumble and shuffle off their words as if they were in a hurry to get through. |
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Down, down, first to a mumble, then to a whisper, then to complete inaudibility. |
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Dour anchormen mumble monotonously about the exhibit of watercolours on military themes opened by the defence minister. |
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We have an Atlantic gateway that people mumble about, but they never put any resources toward it. |
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I started to mumble back the words of comfort we'd all started using once we knew that the convoy had been bombed and Al-Hariri killed. |
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In general conversations, many people may mumble, slur their words, or leave words out altogether. |
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So an unqualified host mumble must either be found as mumble.foo.bar.edu, or it will be searched for in the root domain. |
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Governments bargain, international institutions mumble, civil society organizations stay at the door and the media adds to the panic. |
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This is a typical problem these days, people who mumble and don't articulate. |
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Today we hear young people mumble to themselves when they disagree with us. |
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It seems like people mumble sometimes but other times, you understand perfectly. |
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Everywhere we go, inspiration hits us and we just kind of mumble things into our iPhones. |
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I wondered whether I should mumble that I had been raised by a German Lutheran. |
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During takeoff and landing, I mumble a short prayer that I learned long ago in Sunday school. |
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Generally speaking the members of an Anglican congregation either deny that they are Anglican, are tourists or mumble something before running away. |
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Casablancas speaks in a drowsy mumble and occasionally needs prodding, but once you do, becomes surprisingly engaged. |
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Eyebrows remained firmly horizontal when a distracted customer would mumble something about a novel about an athlete's pain written by one of those angry young men. |
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Embarrassed, all he could manage was mumble an incoherent reply. |
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His speech is a mumble, his face immobile, his gait unsteady. |
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It looks now as though I will have to, as no one wants a teacher who barely achieves an incomprehensible mumble, even if it could be in any one of five languages. |
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Soren's voice came out in more of a mumble than anything else. |
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He prefers to sing in a blurry mumble, letting his meanings emerge in the scuffed and yearning tone of his voice as much as in the words themselves. |
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Jeff just shook his bald head and looked down with a mumble. |
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It's a chance for me to mumble over quirky sounds. |
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From beyond the Bridge there came the mumble, mumble of female voices as the three women stopped for a last chat before each departed to her own home. |
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My anxiety morphed into obsessive-compulsive disorder, and I began to mumble small prayers under my breath, including pleas for the happiness of my mother in the afterworld. |
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It was a reasonable question, to which, humiliatingly, I had no good answer, beyond a mumble that the devaluation had moved us up into a more optimistic zone of our GNP range. |
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We mumble our words and we perhaps are lulled to sleep by a monotonous cacophony of sounds, usually from the opposition, but sometimes even from this side. |
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I mumble, minutely examining the liver spots I've noticed appearing on the backs of my hands recently. |
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It's a hesitant, groping mumble, resolutely experienced, resolutely perfect in its artistic methods. |
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Do people seem to mumble or speak in a softer voice than they used to? |
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