Example sentences for: muttering

How can you use “muttering” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The New York Times ' Stephen Holden wonders why Goodbye, Lover didn't go straight to video and asserts that Arquette, the film's sexpot, "exudes all the erotic energy of an inflatable doll with a taped voice muttering potty-mouthed come-ons."

  • Afterward, he was heard muttering something about being an "invisible man."

  • Eventually Galileo did sign a decree saying that the Earth sat at the center of the universe, while muttering, "Eppur si moeve" ("But it still moves") under his breath.

  • The preview audience left muttering darkly, and no one at the pizza joint next-door could say enough nasty things.

  • Macbeth harps on this mystery after the witches vanish, muttering to Banquo in a tone of envious wonderment, “Your children shall be kings.”


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