Muttered Sentence Examples

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  • He laughed and muttered something about foolishness.

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  • He suddenly muttered something and went away.

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  • He muttered in response.

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  • Ginger muttered an apology, but Joseph was far from finished.

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  • He muttered a curse and flung his door open.

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  • Dean muttered rubbing his eyes.

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  • Fred lost and muttered something about the unfairness of life as he left to do his duty.

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  • On seeing Pierre he muttered something angrily and went away along the passage.

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  • Mon Dieu! muttered Anna Pavlovna in a terrified whisper.

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  • He muttered something and colored.

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  • Oh! he muttered, looking down from the window at the stones of the pavement.

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  • I beg you, muttered Pierre hoarsely.

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  • He muttered unceasingly, his eyebrows and lips twitching, and it was impossible to tell whether he understood what was going on around him or not.

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  • She ended the uncomfortable scene with a muttered, "Have a nice day."

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  • Good advice, she muttered and turned the page.

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  • He answered it, muttered a few words, and hung up.

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  • He rolled his eyes at Jackson and muttered, "She is such a pest, no wonder you dumped her."

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  • Hm! muttered the prince, sitting down.

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  • Brady muttered a curse, reached for his laser weapon, and fired at an angle at the ceiling.

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  • Dean muttered an agreement as he began to open Dawkins's bureau drawers, more out of a nosy nervousness than anything sinister.

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  • She was one of the first off the train while the kid wailed and several people around her muttered.

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  • I work my butt off around here, Dean muttered.

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  • The man muttered a "No, thanks," released his support and continued on his way to the beach across the road.

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  • Dean muttered an apology to his superior and left the lieutenant's office.

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  • Fred muttered as soon as he was gone.

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  • She opened it and muttered a curse.

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  • Dammit, Xander, Sofi muttered.

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  • Darian muttered a curse and rolled off her, gripping his nose.

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  • She muttered a curse, and the cool façade slipped.

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  • I can't change you back anyway, Darian muttered, thoughts on his missing family.

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  • As I looked at him and muttered a few expletives, Ken realized his air was off as well.

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  • Well, the great British tradition of shouting, sighing and pointing hasn't muttered its last " bloody foreigners " yet.

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  • He watched Dusty, whose grip tightened on the wheel as he muttered curses.

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  • Then he muttered, "I've seen enough ice already today."

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  • Soothsaying was no modern importation in Arabia; its characteristic form - a monotonous croon of short rhyming clauses - is the same as was practised by the Hebrew " wizards who peeped and muttered " in the days of Isaiah, and that this form was native in Arabia is clear from its having a technical name (saj`), which in Hebrew survives only in derivative words with modified sense.'

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  • When Luther thought of the Swiss reformer he muttered as Archbishop Parker did of John Knox- "God keep us from such visitations as Knox hath attempted in Scotland; the people to be orderers of things."

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  • He took an arm of each of the fashionable ladies and paraded one block uptown to Main Street, nodding to potential voters and ignoring the comments Fred muttered behind him that he looked like the crinkled cousin from Hicksville.

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  • Her soft, forlorn words sounded like a farewell.  "This is killing me," he muttered.  He strode to her, wrapped his arms around her, and kissed her.  She yielded more easily in the dream than she ever had in real life.  Her soft, warm lips welcomed him hungrily, and he lost himself in her sweet musk, warm skin and honeyed taste.  He didn't want to leave; he wanted to spend the rest of his life making love to her on the beach.  He wanted to feel his skin pressed against hers and for her to run her fingers through his hair before scraping her nails down his back.  He wanted to take her every way he could imagine, until they lay spent and panting on the beach, until nothing but their entwined bodies and souls remained of their world.

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  • She muttered a curse, and the cool façade slipped.

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  • The great joy of the moment, however, is dancing to music instead of the sound of my own breathing and muttered imprecations.

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  • These were entwined about the affected part and an incantation muttered over the patient three times.

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  • Years earlier had blackened as they idea still muttered.

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  • He then muttered that it was not easy riding such a distance ahead of the peloton.

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  • Malcolm pointed to some rotten stumps with holes in, " a good example of Weka work " he muttered.

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  • Breathing again, breathing! he muttered to himself.

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  • What business is it of yours? muttered the count angrily.

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  • Good-bye, good-by! he muttered.

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  • In a different time, he muttered then swore.

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  • Janet muttered, "I got sixty days."

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  • He disappeared again, and her hand met air.  Katie muttered a few curses and looked around.

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  • Kris and Kiki both looked towards the sky when the thunder began.  They'd both given their jackets to Hannah, whose step was growing slower the farther they went into the jungle.  Kiki muttered but didn't openly bitch, probably knowing Kris had no patience for anyone insulting his mate.

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  • The barbarian muttered and grabbed Taran.

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  • She rolled her eyes and muttered under her breath.

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  • Like a horse in pain or something, Jessi muttered for his ears only.

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  • And looking back upon that course afterwards, he records with much complacency how his earliest St Andrews sermon built up a whole fabric of aggressive Protestantism upon Puritan theory, so that his startled hearers muttered, "Others sned (snipped) the branches; this man strikes at the root."

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  • The big man was still alive, curled into a tight ball. Get up. J.J. muttered an obscenity.

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  • Go on... harder, harder! he muttered, hunching his back and presenting his fat shoulders.

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  • Women's fuss! muttered Alpatych to himself and started on his journey, looking round at the fields of yellow rye and the still- green, thickly growing oats, and at other quite black fields just being plowed a second time.

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  • I shall die! she muttered, wrenching herself from Marya Dmitrievna's hands with a vicious effort and sinking down again into her former position.

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  • Dean muttered, immediately regretting his big mouth when he saw the look on her face.

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  • He muttered some lame excuse, feigning making an error.

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  • Anatole lay on the sofa in the study leaning on his elbow and smiling pensively, while his handsome lips muttered tenderly to himself.

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  • God is my witness, I did not know, muttered the old man, and after looking Natasha over from head to foot he went out.

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  • Finally I muttered, "Is he dead?"

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  • Kris muttered curses and touched her shoulder.

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  • I don't expect anyone to talk to me, Kiera muttered as she changed.

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