How to Use stutter in a Sentence

stutter

1 of 2 verb

• I used to stutter when I was a child.
• She stutters when she gets excited.
• But her campaign has often stuttered over the past few weeks.
  — Jill Lawless, The Seattle Times, 7 June 2017
• What worked fine at home suddenly stutters and stalls on the road.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
• People who stutter want to speak for themselves, so don’t try to speak for them.
  — Catie Wegman, sun-sentinel.com, 21 June 2019
• Sam turns on her heel as the woman starts to stutter an apology.
  — Jojo Moyes, Marie Claire, 12 Oct. 2016
• The real estate market, and all the jobs wound up in it, would stutter.
  — Zac Taylor, The Conversation, 9 June 2026
• The real estate market, and all the jobs wound up in it, would stutter.
  — The Conversation, Fortune, 12 June 2026
• Europe will make an effort—stuttering maybe—to stand on its own two feet.
  — Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
• In recent years, there have been more and more headlines about people who stutter.
  — Xiaofan Lei, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2022
• Even those miniscule advances have come to a stuttering halt this year.
  — Sebastian Shukla, CNN Money, 23 May 2026
• Springer is a spokesman for the two-week summer camp that benefits kids and teens who stutter.
  — USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2017
• My heart and probably yours stutters.
  — Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
• Bautista broke for home but was left stuttering toward the plate and was easily thrown out.
  — Seth Berkman, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2016
• Some could be seen running in stuttering patterns on the horizon.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 29 Apr. 2020
• The playing was a bit ragged (more than one entrance stuttered), but colors and effects were vivid.
  — Matthew Guerrieri, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
• Michigan may stutter early, but the Wolverines should pull away late.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 2 Sep. 2021
• The stuttering Chinese car market just got more fuel, but not enough to take it very far.
  — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 3 June 2019
• Doing all this on the UI thread is bad for app performance since any hangups will make your app stutter.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 10 Feb. 2022
• So the image appears to stutter and blur, especially in shots that pan across the scene too quickly.
  — Whitson Gordon, Wired, 6 Apr. 2021
• Irma's forward motion slowed to 6 mph as the storm stuttered off the coast of Cuba.
  — CBS News, 10 Sep. 2017
• In the course of my reporting this article, sources would stutter and shut down whenever dams came up.
  — Christopher Cox Spencer Lowell, New York Times, 22 June 2023
• The forward has scored 43 per cent of their goals this season, propping up their stuttering attack.
  — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
• The consequence of all these edits is that the pacing frequently stutters, and in fact sometimes grinds to a halt.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 30 June 2019
• Israeli artillery was on Ain Ebel’s doorstep, and Diab never stuttered.
  — Matt Bradley, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2023
• There's not much prestige in winning a game of skill because your opponent saw your character stuttering around the stage.
  — Aurich Lawson, Ars Technica, 14 May 2020
• In Sinclair's place, Lindsey Horan took the shot and stuttered on her attempt.
  — Jamie Goldberg, OregonLive.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• My friend Sam who is a stutterer stuttered on his name when ordering a coffee at Starbucks.
  — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 5 July 2018
• Ten minutes into our Zoom call, Cory Doctorow’s voice begins to stutter.
  — Time, 4 Oct. 2022
• Every constant was unmade; the maps were redrawn; and the old, steady rhythm of life stuttered and pulsed erratically.
  — Cory Doctorow, Slate Magazine, 22 May 2017

stutter

2 of 2 noun

• Not once did anything glitch, stutter, or break down.
  — Jerry Perez, The Drive, 22 Jan. 2026
• Smith will use his slick stutter-short club move to beat a guard and record his first sack in five years.
  — John Owning, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2020
• And for me, some of the first signs were noticing that his stutter was coming back.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2025
• Bateman ran a stutter and go to get free of Melvin, who bit on the first move.
  — Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Nov. 2019
• That fear of rejection, that fear of failure might be a form of a stutter.
  — Karl Moore, Forbes, 11 May 2021
• Withers was dogged by a stutter that remained well into his late teens.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2020
• Mixon did a stutter-step at the line of scrimmage to cut outside the tackle.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 20 Oct. 2021
• Brendon took up acting as a way to overcome his stutter.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2026
• The Skytech Prism 4 takes the lag and stutter out of gaming.
  — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
• Biden spoke of his experience with teachers who helped him as a child with a stutter.
  — Erin Einhorn, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2019
• Worst of all, this sensitive boy developed a stutter around the age of eight.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2023
• Fetterman had just suffered a stroke, and Biden grew up with a stutter.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 18 Nov. 2022
• Races up and down the ballot are stutter-stepping toward the finish line.
  — Alden Woods, The Arizona Republic, 6 Nov. 2020
• Biden retains the traces of a childhood stutter and has long been prone to gaffes or verbal stumbles.
  — Cameron Joseph, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
• His stutter release freezes Humphrey enough for Gallup to win inside.
  — Ellis L. Williams, cleveland, 12 Dec. 2020
• Ashford hit a stutter-step move to get past a defender and broke two tackles on the way to a first down.
  — al, 25 Sep. 2022
• Worse is the general sense of stutter that plagues this week's world-premiere version of the mode.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2020
• Vela stutter-stepped slowly to the ball, then buried a low left-footed shot into the right corner.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2022
• Blunt discovered early on how to work around her childhood stutter, which still flares up from time to time.
  — Maria Yagoda, Peoplemag, 11 Nov. 2022
• Each video loaded instantly and played without any stops or stutters.
  — Max Eddy, PC Magazine, 25 Aug. 2023
• The streaming performance was good with a few random stutters.
  — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 19 Mar. 2026
• Jurie, christened ‘Ju-Ju’ for her stutter, joins them.
  — Blake Simons, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2026
• If the self-help cant of the title seems to glitch or stutter, the book’s contents shimmer with the same strangeness.
  — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
• Think instant load times for every map and no stutter, even during the most chaotic firefights.
  — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
• At no point did the device stutter or even feel all that warm at its center, where the M2 package lives.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 26 Oct. 2022
• In a touching moment, Biden tells Brayden to not let his stutter define him.
  — NBC news, 22 Oct. 2020
• This is not the first time that Biden's stutter has become a talking point in his bid for the White House.
  — Justin L. MacK, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Oct. 2020
• Apps opened quickly, video streaming on my Wi-Fi 6 home network was smooth and stutter-free.
  — Dwight Silverman, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• Her brother, Bentley, who's 3 feet 8 inches, has blue eyes and short brown hair and speaks with a stutter.
  — Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 29 Jan. 2020
• But, stutter, stammer, Nix is just an average player who has gotten hot, right?
  — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 20 Dec. 2025