Definitions
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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of mumble.
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Examples
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As Cusack saw clearly, Beckett was very much an Anglo-Irish Protestant, whose language resonates – "like a verse of Isaiah, or of Jeremiah," as his narrator Molloy has it – as if in a bleak homily mumbled from the pulpit of a bare three-quarters-empty church.
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Then he heard his name mumbled in a hurried introduction and, as he raised his hat, saw this girl withdraw a small hand from a mitten and offer it to him.
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I jumped at the chance to write with Carly and what I wound up doing was sending this chord progression and a rough of the melody, and I just kind of mumbled over the chord progression of this song and I sent it to her thinking it may be something she would be interested in writing on.
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She made me linger over each one, while she kind of mumbled through the carbon she was masticating.
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Evan heard the words 'beggarly tailor' mumbled 'out of the gutters,' and
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If we had how how how how ... now would not be filled with a sense of loss this kind of mumbled, or stop to say instead.
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"They just kind of mumbled and said 'What are you going to do?'"
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The president continued to stare at the name and mumbled to himself, “I know I’ve heard that name before.”
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McCahill "mumbled," had a "strong odor" of alcohol on her breath and had "red-bloodshot and glassy eyes," according to the police report.
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Police said McCahill "mumbled," had a "strong odor" of alcohol on her breath and had "red-bloodshot and glassy eyes."
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