How to Use "mutter" with Example Sentences

1. People mutter about nation-building beginning at home : why , many wonder , should american children do worse at reading than polish ones and at maths than lithuanians ?
2. After all , they mutter , if washington could produce fatca and then impose it in an imperial manner on businesses across the world what other capricious surprises loom next ?
3. Many people in the accounting profession mutter that it would have been wiser for the government to take longer , as many other countries that are better able to make the change have done .
4. If she feels uncomfortable in any way , she is to mutter out loud the phrase , " I hope I 'm not getting a cold . "
5. Professional advisers sometimes mutter a damning phrase after first meeting an aspirant chief executive who got a job , along with his dna , from dad " clogs to clogs in three generations " .