How to Use stuttering in a Sentence

stuttering

noun
  • Get lost in the forest of your thoughts and the stuttering of your heartbeat.
    Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 20 June 2022
  • My goal with this book was to tell a life story through the prism of stuttering.
    David Oliver, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The game's Xbox One X patch, on the other hand, drags these races back down to a stuttering refresh somewhere in the mid-40s.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2017
  • In spite of my stuttering, my father taught me how to be a good speaker.
    National Geographic, 26 Feb. 2016
  • While Ferrell spends the first half of the series fretting and stuttering, Rudd gets to wallow in the dark muck that is Dr. Ike.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Shouldn’t our shared stuttering make our bond stronger?
    Rachel Hoge, Longreads, 4 Aug. 2017
  • The researchers worked with a mutation in a gene that is known to cause stuttering in humans.
    Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2016
  • And their call is often a deep stuttering series for four or five hoots.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 13 Dec. 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
  • In 1957, the United States’ efforts to catch up to the Soviet Union had gotten off to a stuttering start.
    Sean Greene, latimes.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • For 35 years, the actor has been a hero to the stuttering community.
    WSJ, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The result makes the game run smoothly, without any frame-rate stuttering.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 20 July 2023
  • 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
  • Currently, there is no cure for stuttering, and this study is a small step toward that goal.
    Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2016
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Rod goes on to address a prominent writer on the right who mocked stuttering.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 24 Aug. 2020
  • But Grandpa’s already halfway down the hall, his limp stuttering on the marble.
    Veronica Chambers, New York Times, 28 June 2019
  • Is the stuttering credit market about to become a problem for stocks.
    Richard Barley, WSJ, 9 July 2018
  • 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
  • Following a stuttering start to the season, Nice moved to eighth place in the standings, just four points behind third-place Saint-Etienne.
    USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • Hannah’s eyes well up as Adam smiles wistfully, stuttering until his words come to a halt.
    Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • Garage door openers are nothing new, but today’s are vast improvements over the stuttering versions of the past.
    Gabrielle Hondorp, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2020
  • There were no issues with frame dropping, stuttering, etc.
    Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 26 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • China’s stuttering economy is now the biggest threat to global commodities demand, as economic activity and credit flows in the world’s top buyer deteriorate sharply and put Beijing’s modest growth targets at risk.
    Time, 23 Aug. 2023

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