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- verb 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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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.
Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast Charles Clark Munn 1882
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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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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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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.
Mike Ragogna: Dukes of September, McCartney's Guitarist & An Australian's Tourabout : Conversations With Michael McDonald, Brian Ray, and Xavier Rudd Mike Ragogna 2010
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She made me linger over each one, while she kind of mumbled through the carbon she was masticating.
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Robbins, Tom 1994
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Evan heard the words 'beggarly tailor' mumbled 'out of the gutters,' and
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Evan heard the words 'beggarly tailor' mumbled 'out of the gutters,' and
Evan Harrington — Volume 7 George Meredith 1868
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Evan heard the words 'beggarly tailor' mumbled 'out of the gutters,' and
Evan Harrington — Complete George Meredith 1868
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