Stammer is an English word with synonyms like stutter or verbalize. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Stammer meaning
- To keep repeating a particular sound involuntarily during speech.
- To utter with a stammer, or with timid hesitancy.
Synonyms of Stammer
Using Stammer
- The main meaning on this page is: To keep repeating a particular sound involuntarily during speech. | To utter with a stammer, or with timid hesitancy.
- Useful related words include: stutter, verbalize, mouth, utter.
- In the example corpus, stammer often appears in combinations such as: his stammer, stammer and, to stammer.
Context around Stammer
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 7 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Stammer
- In this selection, "stammer" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 26.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, impediment, ahead, growing and yet stand out and add context to how "stammer" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include began to stammer yet before and by his stammer which prevents. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "stammer" sits close to words such as abattoirs, aberrant and abike, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with stammer
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Youngsters have boosted their confidence and improved their speech at a workshop for those who stammer. (16 words)
He was also intelligent and well read, and when agitated he had a tendency to stammer. (16 words)
In the mid-1920s, he had speech therapy for a stammer, which he never fully overcame. (16 words)
During initial military training in England, he received an electric shock from a telephone that had been hit by lightning, which caused him to stammer and sweat so badly that he did not use a phone again for twelve years. (40 words)
In the docu-series, the global megastar Shah Rukh Khan talks about how he perfected his stammer in Darr and reveals how he used to bounce off crazy ideas to nail his villainous act in the Yash Chopra blockbuster! (39 words)
It’s like there is an ‘off’ button for each word and you have to switch them all back on,” he said, recalling that he would stammer to talk as he started the path to recovery. (36 words)
In the docu-series, the global megastar Shah Rukh Khan talks about how he perfected his stammer in Darr and reveals how he used to bounce off crazy ideas to nail his villainous act in the Yash Chopra blockbuster! (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
I got a fitness coach who helped me work much harder and I also wanted to deal with my voice, my speech, because I used to speak very slowly with my stammer.
In the docu-series, the global megastar Shah Rukh Khan talks about how he perfected his stammer in Darr and reveals how he used to bounce off crazy ideas to nail his villainous act in the Yash Chopra blockbuster!
She also developed a stammer, for which she was treated unsuccessfully by Lionel Logue, King George VI's speech therapist.
First up is 2010’s The King’s Speech starring Colin Firth as King George VI coping with his stammer ahead of his wartime radio broadcast upon the 1939 declaration of war.
Former Antrim hurling star Terence “Sambo” McNaughton has spoken honestly and openly about his battle with the stigma of having a stammer in his youth.
It’s like there is an ‘off’ button for each word and you have to switch them all back on,” he said, recalling that he would stammer to talk as he started the path to recovery.
The London-born screenwriter, who had a stammer growing up, was inspired to write about the true story of how King George VI overcame his speech impediment with a speech and language therapist.
I began to stammer, yet, before I could say a word, Rav Simcha said, “I am so happy you returned today.
The circular barred persons with speech impediment (stammer/dumb) or have gross malformation of teeth, from applying for superintendent, inspectorate and assistant cadre positions in the ongoing NIS recruitment.
At school, he was dreadfully shy and suffered from a stammer, but was also an incorrigible show-off.
Or that’s the idea, anyway; for what feels like an eternity, the nine black-robed men do little but stammer and clear their throats.
The actor revealed he had to talk to himself for an hour so that he wouldn't stammer while speaking to people.
Youngsters have boosted their confidence and improved their speech at a workshop for those who stammer.
All that means is that my stammer was never openly acknowledged or discussed, and most of the time, I could do a pretty good impression of a fluent person.
He added that the programme “shows how the four-day course works and how we help them overcome their stammer and the different techniques”.
She’s one of six people featured in new documentary School for Stammerers, which follows their emotional journey as they attempt to achieve the one thing that could change their lives — control of their stammer.
At this encounter, Billy is frustrated by his stammer, which prevents him from speaking, and strikes Claggart.
During initial military training in England, he received an electric shock from a telephone that had been hit by lightning, which caused him to stammer and sweat so badly that he did not use a phone again for twelve years.
He was also intelligent and well read, and when agitated he had a tendency to stammer.
In the mid-1920s, he had speech therapy for a stammer, which he never fully overcame.
Common combinations with stammer
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- his stammer 4×
- stammer and 4×
- to stammer 3×
- my stammer 2×
- stammer in 2×
- developed stammer 2×
- stammer for 2×
- their stammer 2×
- stammer which 2×