He did not hear what Amy was saying, and whenever she paused expectantly he could only stammer an awkward assent, which was as often misplaced as otherwise.
Last weekend I went out to a shopping mall in a far-flung corner of suburban New Jersey, to accompany my tween daughter and friend to a "concert" of five wildly popular female YouTube stars named MyLifeAsEva, Meredith Foster, Alisha Marie, Mia Stammer and Sierra Furtado (no, I hadn't heard of them before either).
The salesman could only stammer out, "Er, is your mother at home?
For now, all you can do is mouth a half-hearted "oh" as they stammer out an apology.
" Flustered, the ventriloquist begins to stammer out an apology.
" This only increased the uproars, when they heard him speak; he did not even stammer; this was sufficient to disgrace him, and he was laughed at throughout the country.
