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Sentence Examples I crumpled to the ground where I lay muttering to myself about all the things I did wrong in my life. I sometimes learn my lines on public transport muttering them out loud to myself. Viro walked down the path beyond the witch's house, muttering a thousand oaths against sorcery. I sat up angrily, muttering profanities to myself as I rubbed my elbows and knees which took my awkward landing hardest. Thoroughly humiliated and irritated in far too many ways, Em got to her knees, muttering oaths that would have made Uncle Tuan proud. I get up muttering obscenities under my breath as I try to wake up my foot that has decided to fall asleep on me. When the game was over, Drew stalked off, muttering obscenities under his breath. One of his opponents was last seen heading for the showers at Laem Chabang muttering obscenities under his breath. Picking up the cup of milk with bound hands I kicked the food back at the stringy, oily servant, growling and muttering a warning. Sam can't even muster the chutzpah to blast back at a heckler with the bile we know he can spit, instead muttering some lame babble. So I took my time finishing the job, heaved myself upright and turned to face the source of the muttering. By now, someone reading this is angrily muttering, but it teaches the kids discipline! Mr Godfrey took the hint and sunk back in his seat, muttering maledictions under his breath. Without any prompting from Pettitt, he was feverishly muttering snippets from his stump speech in the middle of the frantic gesturing. Mr Morrigon's secretary was at her side muttering platitudes about the weather and asking her how many sugars she'd like in her coffee. Graham is still swotting up on bicycles and has got to the stage where he's constantly muttering technical-sounding buzzwords. We started to go through the kitchen, to the back door, but we heard clattering and muttering. Then he fell back on the bed and tossed about as though he was in the throes of a poison, muttering through clenched teeth. She paces backwards and forwards, at one end of the platform, muttering quietly to herself, gesticulating with quick fingers. Beth was feverish and fitful, tossing about beneath the sheets, her head thrashing from side to side, muttering inaudibly from time to time. Show More Sentences Groans from a baggy eyed courtroom were cut short when the judge collapsed laughing and muttering incoherently. He just kept shivering and muttering incoherent fragments of distorted English. Soon after, they found Hazel sitting by a tree, muttering incoherent threats. Williams subsided over his beer, muttering some kind of incoherent threat, as Leslie smiled. Grabbing my arm, she began muttering an incantation that sounded a bit too similar to the one with which I had seen her geld a horse. His foot was throbbing madly, but he gave the door another kick, muttering more curses under his breath. But all the same I gave it to him without wetting my pants of muttering something stupid and insane. He shifts, muttering about a stupid feather, and I crack a weak, watery smile, my lip trembling. They skulk at the back, where portly men are eating prawn sandwiches and muttering. Politely muttering some pleasantry, I paid for the chocolate bar, and we bade each other a good afternoon. Still, we mellow out round the fire, toasting marshmallows and muttering into the gloom. Kira carried on walking, muttering angrily to herself about the absolute stupidity and selfishness of demons and mythical creatures. Jerome, muttering and dripping thick mud and rainwater, brought up the rear of this merry parade. Pete has been driven to such distraction lately he is now muttering about consoling himself by munching on a fine Alsatian steak. The governor, already on board, is bellowing at us, and several women are crossing themselves and muttering prayers. Suddenly, I find myself muttering the Sabbath blessing my father and mother always used to give over us children at Shabbat. He barely talks to anybody but he can often be seen standing alone in the day room, staring blankly or cackling and muttering to himself. About him stood three priests, true shavelings, clean shorn and polled, who were muttering strange words to the devils out of a conjuring book. After the subtle shock wore off, everyone was muttering about interrupting the movie. Rose, having snapped out of her reverie, was muttering discontentedly over her schedule. Show More Sentences When Jana emerged from the stall, she was tucking her white shirt into the regulation plaid skirt and was muttering harshly under her breath. But it is no use muttering about Luddism when people are simply asking how society will gain from new medical technologies or biobanks. Sadly, the group trooped toward the other bus, muttering amongst themselves. Usually you will find me with my head in a book muttering at the unreality and anachronism in some flouncy, Austen thing. Neruda is master of a living world in turmoil, and his expression is at times scarcely more than a sibylline stammer, a primitive muttering. I trudged to my room, all the way muttering about how she would blackmail me with this little bit of information. Who knows which expletives he is muttering beneath his vast, furrowed monobrow! He nodded in the same slow manner as his speech and continued walking, resuming his constant muttering. Astor could ignore someone beside him mouthing words without sound and muttering impatiently whenever he had to rewind the tape. Merrick was muttering obscenities and Ryder under his breath while she finished up. You see them muttering together in corners, their skin grey and baggy and their unbrushed hair matted with Playdoh. For us moviegoers, you might be muttering to yourself, but not for the wretched of the Glasgow slums. She sat there, muttering to herself and overall amusing the daylights out of me. He was still sleeping and appeared to be having a dream, for he was tossing and turning, and muttering something undistinguishable. Privately, I've heard quite a bit of murmuring and muttering about the way this affects the day-to-day running of the club. In a second scene from Macbeth, Lady Macbeth walks about the castle in a trance-like state, muttering psychotically. Carl continued muttering in both English and Romany as they headed out the door. A few turned to stare as she stood there, green eyes blinking curiously, voices muttering. The lights were still on at my house and I walked in, barely muttering a goodnight to him. Sometimes I'd hear a melodic fragment or a texture, or it might sound like voices muttering in an unintelligible language. Show More Sentences The big woman knelt down and gathered up Rose's books, muttering apologies in a deep, quiet voice. Without even having to strain his ears, he could overhear the girl muttering to herself in annoyance. I follow sullenly, muttering something barely coherent, concerning lies and unfairness. He managed to nudge his partner, and together they rose, muttering in tones of voice too low and quiet for her to hear. She replied so quietly that he could barely hear her voice muttering her name. His friend began muttering in German and what I possibly believe is that they were talking about me. They began muttering, and he heard a chair scrape across the floor, followed quickly by three more. So he said no, privately muttering that his team shouldn't have to compromise to make up for the mistakes of others. People began muttering under their breath as the moments went by and no one saw any danger. The four friends and the men begin muttering, then asking us loudly why only she got the money, then arguing with her. By 11, his colleagues had not arrived and several people began muttering over their absence. When she motioned me over the kids began whispering, muttering that I must have been shoplifting or something. The result was an unholy mess, with party nabobs muttering darkly about throwing the 71-year-old peer out of the Tories altogether. As the hours slowly passed, he rocked back and forth, muttering prayers first in Latin, then in Gaelic, then in English. She began muttering things under her breath but gradually grew tired as well. As I climbed, I caught some words that he was muttering, but they were old Gaelic and I didn't understand. Vauban never spared himself during the process, and was always on hand, muttering away in a Burgundian dialect littered with forceful neologisms. Instead of yelling back or muttering cusses at her father, Jazlyn just balled her hands into fists. He was alive and breathing, but he was muttering as though out of his mind, and a bandage covered his eyes. I fell into the arms of the door opener, muttering brokenly of my need to see my friend. Show More Sentences Most often it doesn't and he goes all sullen and broody, muttering about fussy neighbours and piling even more garden waste on the smoking heap. Taukat showed his agreement by muttering the words of a spell and conjuring a cloud of acid rain over the unsuspecting targets. I glared at the woman, who shut up pretty quickly, then placed my hands on either side of the small circle, muttering the words of a spell. People lose their nerve in the middle of a sentence and walk off muttering, they sit and brood by themselves, and best yet, all the time, people are getting stupid drunk. A soft noise came from inside, a quiet shuffling and a low muttering. Irritably, he complies, but when the stewardess moves on, he reclines the chair again, muttering balefully under his breath. I can't help muttering under my breath, though, willing the hawk on. At that moment my father stalked impatiently through the door, muttering. Karen wore the shortest and hottest, hot pants of the evening, while Pat Dixon was overheard muttering that in the swinging '70s she was up to her armpits in children. It was five o'clock in the morning and she was muttering to herself and holding the fuzzy white bathrobe tightly closed, as if her life depended on it. He passed one of the youth gangs on the way, muttering into their phones and thumbing at their keyboards, coordinating their crimefighting activities. I still remember the days when a befurred member of the concert society huffily walked out in the middle of the Fugue muttering about the assault to her ears. She slipped the matching shoes onto her feet, muttering at the high heels. Emanuel shook his head, muttering about the misguidedness of heathens. Their fathers sitting there misty-eyed with joy and disbelief, their brothers lurking in the corner muttering with envy. The elderly ladies of the audience were muttering and tutting throughout. It filled my head, that muttering sound, like thick oily smoke from a fat-rendering vat or an odour of noisome decay. He left muttering something about mothballing the suit until next year. Her face was red, fumes came from her head and she was muttering very strong and unedifying words under her breath that were peeling paint off of the walls. Clean-cut, in sharp suits, and with short hair at a time when that was unfashionable, they prowled around muttering into wires that protruded from their shirt cuffs. Show More Sentences Unable to be still, he paced around the beach muttering something, his eyes wide and to the ground. The others started to file out, muttering about him being a spoilsport. As bloggers become to become mainstream and not just fringe lunatics muttering in tiny cabals, power will concentrate according to network power laws. Five minutes later, Keyan was in the medical bay, stripped down to his boxers, with a medic fussing over him, muttering oaths about how barbaric the fights were. Two bus-rides and a walk in the rain later we found the old dairy farm, muttering under our breaths about the wisdom of locating such an establishment way out in the sticks. After the treatment, we see her standing dazed in a straitjacket, muttering unintelligibly, her hair standing on end, sparks flying from her head. Around him, the demons dance, cavorting, whispering, dancing, muttering. She thought it was her husband until she heard a voice muttering close by. He then lit the incense and let the smoke rise for a few moments before taking it and walking around the room muttering the same words he had spoken before. Sighing heavily and muttering a few choice words about his lazy companion, he begrudgingly hauled her onto his back and piggybacked her all the way back to their apartment. Grim-faced, head bowed and muttering to himself, Owen walked straight on, allowing the warm Madrid night to swallow him up along with whatever dark thoughts inhibited him. He was muttering something to himself in that piping voice of his, and the wounded surprise in his voice brought home to me that he was just a child himself. Gabord, still muttering, turned to us again, and began to berate the soldiers for their laziness. I channel vertically under the sheet to hide my blushing neck, muttering demulcent nothings. Nina was thrilled, muttering her cantankerous joy that I was getting out of the house. I suspect Cornishmen and women really do spend time in pubs muttering into their pints, generally mithering about the English. Some employees are muttering about the changes in the pension plan. There are two women who sit on their stoop here, smoking and muttering dark imprecations like the Graeae missing a sister. Tardiness is one classical hallmark of job dissatisfaction, and muttering under one's breath is not exactly a symbol of a happy employee either. And as for that we'll see about that, fear no such threatful muttering under the weather, either. Show More Sentences The pair were muttering away, nonsensically as Godzone farmers do, when John the Joiner from Mardon erupted. Roissy I so lacks any notion of directionality because of its circular plan that disorientated travellers wander round muttering to themselves in rage and bewilderment. April could hear the delivery van's engine muttering in the driveway. If the word becomes a tool for settling scores, muttering, and leveling accusations randomly, then it becomes a destructive tool that benefits the gloaters only. They take over the first two rows of seats in front of the stage, impatient and grumblesome and muttering about having done this too many times before. Examples from Classical Literature Culligore was staring about him groggily and muttering something about a blow on the head. Later I heard this undertaking genius of a Tommy grousing and muttering to himself. The lightning flashes were less frequent, and the thunder was muttering far away amid the secret places of the Bernina. She wondered if every daring, sexy technology project started like this, a cranky hacker muttering angrily about boot-loaders. I could see his hand press hers and she kissed him just as the flash went by, and he took to muttering again. Henderson blushed as he made out some of the words the flower was muttering. It was then that Gwendolyn heard the nurse muttering and chortling to herself. Moriarty was muttering to himself, figuring with slide rule, pencil and paper. The car had passed and he now openly looked after it, mouthing and muttering. The figure stopped to read the taximeter, shook his fist at the chauffeur, and approached me, muttering audibly. The storm now louring and muttering in our political atmosphere might of itself almost forbid me to regret your leaving England. He got to his feet and rolled about the room, like a boozy sailor, puffing out volumes of smoke and muttering beneath his breath. Then, still muttering, he was out of the car and at the task of jacking it up. Uncle, after not looking at it a little while, divined its object, and muttering 'Dinner? The black mass on the mountain came down like amoebic tentacles, met and coalesced, muttering and mumbling. He took her traveling case from her hand, muttering a proffer to assist her. He dropped his fauchard over his shoulder, and stood aside, staring impudently at the Maiden, and muttering foul words. The thunder was not loud, but it kept up a continuous muttering and rumbling. He paced the length of the room and back, mouthing and muttering. We travel with warlocks, but they will not hurt thee.Kim turned it over with the air of a wise warlock, muttering a Mohammedan invocation. Show More Sentences Ledyard at Ben's elbow was muttering something about his britches. He stood muttering to himself of his friend and his craziness. Presently, scowling over her work, she began muttering to herself. Through the port came the muttering of a seaplane's engines. This man no longer condemned Bert, himself muttering vaguely of dynamite, end sabotage, and revolution. Father Wolf ran out a few paces and heard Shere Khan muttering and mumbling savagely as he tumbled about in the scrub. The hag was muttering her incantations and did not heed the girl. Primmie departed, slamming the door and muttering indignation. Chahda fired one shot after another, muttering to himself in Hindi. Issy, sprawled on the bench by the wheel, was muttering to himself. The cabman got on to his box, muttering something that was inaudible. Then I heard him talking to himself and muttering, and every time the bell rang out he came on the stairhead, with 'What is that, Mrs. Did Rohani get cold feet as some of the hardliners at home began muttering nastily about the evils of dealing with Washington? The man was muttering rapid fragments of words, and syllables. The dwarf muttering a terrible oath looked round as if for some weapon with which to inflict condign punishment upon his disobedient wife. He was tossing feverishly from side to side, murmuring and muttering. And I left him, muttering maledictions against his evil angel. That was why she passed you muttering to herself and looking so angry. The Poonga-Poonga men gloated as usual, and as usual the Tahitians were shocked and angry, several of them cursing and muttering in undertones. It's a pity he cannot kill himself with drink,' observed Heathcliff, muttering an echo of curses back when the door was shut. Show More Sentences John Bunsby long examined the threatening aspect of the heavens, muttering indistinctly between his teeth. So we went out, but as we passed them I saw the doctors muttering together, for they were ill-pleased and foreboded evil. The last I saw of him, his head was bent over his knee and he was working hard at his fetter, muttering impatient imprecations at it and at his leg. The procession of weary soldiers became a bedraggled train, despondent and muttering, marching with churning effort in a trough of liquid brown mud under a low, wretched sky. The low, muttering sounds of his threatening voice were still audible, when the wounded foal, first rearing on its hinder legs, plunged forward to its knees. Bulstrode went away now without anxiety as to what Raffles might say in his raving, which had taken on a muttering incoherence not likely to create any dangerous belief. With a final vicious cuff he knocked the child into a far corner of the tent, where she lay stifling her moans, while The Sheik paced to and fro muttering to himself. The range of acting styles, which run from amateurish exaggeration to Dukakis's almost Method-like muttering, gives this production a wobbly diffuseness. I left him muttering bad language to himself, and went up-stairs. The croon changed to a querulous muttering, and finally to an ugly growl. There has been some muttering that Mohammad-Reza Bahonar, the second deputy speaker, pocketed some nay cards and substituted some aye cards from his pocket. At eleven the meeting closed, and the desolate audience filed out into the snow, muttering curses upon the few traitors who had got repentance and gone up on the platform. She sat in an armchair in her dressing jacket and nightcap and Katie, sleepy and disheveled, beat and turned the heavy feather bed for the third time, muttering to herself. Find more words! 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