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Throughout this piece bear in mind that my interlocutor mumbled indistinctly, and therefore I had to ask him to repeat everything.
What a cornball, she mumbled to herself as she took a seat in the back of the room.
I mumbled something about Paris, Rome, and Venice and immediately felt graceless and ashamed.
The next song continues the sad fate of the lead guitar, as it is processed into the background in favor of mumbled vocals.
A sheepish flush tinged my cheeks and Diego mumbled something in rapid Spanish about the sister he never had.
I mumbled, putting the bookmark in my book, sitting up and picking up the phone.
Upon noticing her state he hurriedly outstretched his hand and mumbled an apology as he helped her off of the ground.
I mumbled something equally articulate in response and then we sort of walked to the desk together to punch our numbers in.
She mumbled something I couldn't hear, and held her chin in her hand as she dove into thought.
Two male students, who were turned away mumbled as they left and dumped a stack of blank ballots into a dustbin outside the police post.
The organist often crackled or whined the Gregorian-chant hymns and the celebrant often hummed, mumbled, or whispered the Latin prayers.
Beside her, Lord Avon mumbled in his sleep and turned over with a soft rustle of the silken sheets.
As they both fall about laughing, any fear that they were going to give one line mumbled answers instantly becomes less and less likely.
I mumbled something about not living in Norway for many years, that I didn't know about the rule of car seats for big children, blah, blah, blah.
A couple of the performers seemed hesitant in some of their decisions, and at times mumbled unconfidently.
Brandon mumbled an inaudible reply before seating himself at the breakfast bar.
There was no easy answer, and I mumbled some rubbish about looking for a last-minute bargain.
Lisa mumbled a reply as she chewed on a pen, and William went on with what he wanted.
The response from MPs consisted of sympathetic murmurs and mumbled hear-hears.
Her steed mumbled something inaudible as he restarted his ungainly walk to the church doors.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I got up at once, pulled back the curtains, and mumbled my rle while dressing.
Mr Verloc mumbled, with his nose over the grate, and with marked unwillingness.
Jed, he mumbled some kind of foolishness about some things givin' him earache.
In spite of my injunction he mumbled something, and I was not unwilling to hear it.
Peter mumbled some foolishness about nobbling Angola for Germany and starting a revolution among the natives.
Thoroughly squelched, the malingerer flushed, mumbled an apology and held out his hand.
She said no plain words, but smacked and mumbled with her lips, and hummed aloud, like a child over its Christmas pudding.
She said no plain word, but smacked and mumbled with her lips, and hummed aloud, like a child over its Christmas pudding.
From the white lips of mouselike Maniel came mumbled words, even as his hands worked with lightning speed.
His sunken eyes glittered and his wrinkled lips moved over toothless gums as he mumbled weird incantations to the demons of his cult.
The puncher mumbled, drew the blankets closer about him, and lay quiet.
Dawson mumbled, as he strived to get his brain functioning faster.
I had mumbled but a lame mass an thou hadst broken my jaw, for the piper plays ill that wants the nether chops.
He mumbled out that the money had been sent in a letter,and that was all he knew.
Aramis mumbled verses to himself, and Porthos from time to time pulled a hair or two from his mustache, in sign of despair.
The awful creature in my grasp mumbled inarticulately for a moment, then a sudden gleam of cunning shot into those hideous, close-set eyes.
There they grouped themselves about, in couples and threes, and mumbled in bated voices, and looked timid and homeless and forlorn.
Billy, who was always visioning hills and spacious ranges for his horses, mumbled unenthusiastic assent.
Then their hands were untied, and the Brahman mumbled a mantram.
Then I mumbled thanks, and reached wearily for my washcloth.
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