muttering

As Ransdell walks off, students can be heard muttering “go away,” and “shut up.”

For all we knew, she would be Jodie Foster in Nell, muttering chik-abee ta-ta een tha wayeen.

But all that ass-shaking as part of the showpersonship—mm, one could guess what the gospel maestro might be muttering.

Irritably, he complies, but when the stewardess moves on, he reclines the chair again, muttering balefully under his breath.

It filled my head, that muttering sound, like thick oily smoke from a fat-rendering vat or an odour of noisome decay.

Ask the disappointed vulture and the mouth of the muttering earth to tell you, gentlemen passengers!

Gradually and stealthily the king of the forest drew near, muttering to himself, as it were, in an undertone.

I would rather have undergone a hundred runaways than one week with that old woman muttering her Dutch over my senseless form.

The deep-set eyes of the soldier glowed with an unnatural fire, and he was muttering to himself, as if in delirium.

The Minister of Justice walked away, still muttering something about public confidence and political repercussions.