“Danny attempted to respond, but could only let out a mumble.”

“The droning mumble of too many voices blurred into nothing as I stared at Michael.”

“Mostly idiotic mumblage about how Paul McCartney was dead and had been replaced by a robot.”

“Most of the other legalese mumblage is about patent protection and so on.”

“For a start the singer's no mumbler, he's got a great melodic voice and there's nothing remotely depressing about them.”

“First of all, she's a mumbler, so I really have to strain to hear her.”

“Instead of Maguire's sleepy-eyed charm, Andrew Garfield gives us a nervy mumbler whose loneliness you can read in his eyes.”

“His media appearances are categorised by barely audible mumblings in one of the thickest Scouse accents you've ever heard.”

“No sooner had the lights gone out than there were mumblings of sabotage, some kind of conspiracy, foul play, under-hand machinations.”

“There are so many indecipherable mumblings that you have to replay and replay.”

“And I'm not insisting the whisperers, mumblers, droners and mic-dummies of this world be barred from reading their own poetry out loud.”

“I'd have to say that my experience at the Annual General Meeting of our student society was marked by mumblers of the most extraordinary kind.”

“The BBC blunder came just a few months after director general Tony Hall declared war on mumblers.”

“He doesn't speak Spanish, he speaks Tex-Mex. I don't know what that other gibberish is he mumbles at times.”

“He comes in, looks around, mumbles about my wires and cracks some really bad jokes.”

“He mumbles an unheard one-liner about losing his damage deposit as he wrenches the door of the moving car open and dives inelegantly inside.”