How To Use Slurred In A Sentence
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He has never got round to cutting the umbilical link with his home city, here represented by the slurred abbreviation in the title.
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Being charged in this investigation has affected him greatly and his good name has been slurred.
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From the seed feeders on the deck come the euphonious calls of chickadees, the bell-like trill of the dark-eyed juncos, the down-slurred whistle of the titmice, the “ank-ank” of the nuthatches, the “zree” of the house finches, and the coo of doves; from the nectar feeders and flowers, the whirr of hummingbird wings.
Birdology
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Her speech was slurred but she still denied she was drunk.
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It's a typically riotous mix of oompah music-hall cavortings, slurred-pitch Middle Eastern rhapsodising, luxuriously sensuous clarinet love-songs, and stormy collective blasts reminiscent of the 1960s John Coltrane quartet.
Gilad Atzmon Orient House Ensemble: The Tide Has Changed
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Bob's speech was slurred, and he sounded drunk.
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If you have a slurred voice, people are likely to treat you as mentally deficient.
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The first, in slurred Spanish, kept calling me "Jefe" (chief), a distancing form of address to say the least (think of "amigo" as a way of including someone and you'll see what I mean).
A small mound in Xoxo
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One of the big differences is that in Colombian usage most swearing uses contractions, or slurred pronunciation.
Humani nihil a me alienum puto « Unknowing
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Distorted, slurred vocals suggest greatness without having any inadequacies exposed.
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Spencer slurred the word " pecuniary ," but I didn't correct his pronunciation.
THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
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She maintains her slurred speech was a result of medication.
The Sun
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Pete on the other hand went from bad to worse until his eyes became unfocussed, his speech slurred and his dancing dangerous to passers by.
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‘Bring back the birch,’ slurred Mrs Mungo into her umpteenth pre-prandial sherry.
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Her speech was slurred but she still denied she was drunk.
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‘This point is sometimes forgotten, and sometimes slurred over,’ observed Eoghan O Neachtain in 1902.
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I became quite worried as his speech became more slurred and he began coughing and spluttering.
The Sun
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Bickett's speech was described as "slurred" in a booking report posted on the Goshen County Sheriff's Department website.
KansasCity.com: Front Page
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His accent slurred his speech, and he jumped from register to register as he spoke, as though speaking in sing-song.
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She slurred over the high cost of her plan.
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Alcohol affects the brain, making speech slurred and imprecise.
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The drunk man slurred his words.
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The general slurred over his contribution to the campaign.
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So we sat down next to some guy who, in very slurred speech, started to tell us his life story.
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But the lack of good reference books was very real, and because of this the narrative had often to be slurred over, or particular periods skipped.
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He repeatedly mispronounced words and slurred his speech.
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She slurred over the high cost of her plan.
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The distinction probably has been slurred over.
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You could tell from his slurred speech that he was drunk.
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He slurred the words, and to all intents and purposes appeared the drunken sot.
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His speech was slurred and he looked a mess.
The Sun
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The End Of Summer is warm and slithery, borne on slurred drums and elastic pings (perhaps the sound of tent pegs pounded by rubber mallets?)
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`Yo, Franklin Delano Little," he slurred, wiping his lips with the back of his fingers, `hey, what's shaking, hombre ?
DESPERADOES
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If too much lithium is given there can be ataxic behavior with sedation and slurred speech.
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Slide 25: Clinical course in acute ethylene glycol intoxication 30 minutes to 12 hours Central nervous system Inebriation euphoria ataxia slurred speech drowsiness irritation restlessness disorientation Gastrointestinal Nausea and vomiting Metabolic Elevated osmolal gap
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His speech is slurred and he can hardly write and he is heavily medicated.
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When a man is drunk his speech is slurred.
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‘I got a room at the hotel,’ she said in a mutter, her words slurred.
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In either case the two notes will typically be slurred and played with a diminuendo.
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Desiree Jennings, an ambassador for the Washington Redskins cheerleading squad, claimed she developed a rare neurological disorder called dystonia after receiving a seasonal flu shot, causing dramatic spasms and slurred speech.
Blue Mass. Group - Front Page
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“Ever wonder why they call it jaywalking?” she said, her thick Welsh accent slurred with her lips pressed against the window.
AFTERSHOCKS • by Alexander Burns
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They went to speak to him and smelled alcohol, saw his eyes were glazed and his speech slurred.
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She came toward me and began speaking in slurred speech.
Archive 2006-01-01
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If the blues is a single note that is slurred into a different tone, then we have taken the King's English and blued it into our own dialect.
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his words were slurred
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His speech is slurred because the right side of his face is paralysed from the last stroke.
Times, Sunday Times
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He replied hesitantly in a slurred, unenthusiastic tone, drawing many engrossed eyes towards him.
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Your speech will be slurred and you will become very emotional.
The Sun
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He stabbed the brake, stabbed too hard, and his back wheels slurred in the dirt.
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The general slurred over his contribution to the campaign.
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Her speech was slurred but she still denied she was drunk.
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She was also talking so quickly that all of her words slurred together into this large mass of exclamatory and paranoiac volumes, which took me a while to reconfigure into the actual English language.
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He guzzled the last of his draft beer and slurred.
Talking Heads « A Fly in Amber
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Injury or organic disease in the cerebellum may produce such symptoms as a staggering walk, palsy, slurred speech, chronic malaise.
MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
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When a man is drunk his speech is slurred.
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The man with the slurred voice was complaining about the climb; he couldn't go any further, he was saying.
SACRAMENT
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His gait is still uncertain and his speech slurred.
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She slurred over the high cost of her plan.
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He stabbed the brake, stabbed too hard, and his back wheels slurred in the dirt.
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Between sips, Mary tried to talk, but her speech was so slurred as to be almost incomprehensible.
GRACE
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Oh how we loved to see our fallen hero struggle through the tremors and slurred speech.
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The wispy guitar line is taken by the bass; Bridget adds many slurred notes into each run, transforming it from rickety to propulsive.
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She said in a slurred voice while she went limp in his arms, she energy spent.
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Your speech will be slurred and you will become very emotional.
The Sun
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The only problem was that Martini had received a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, inviting the prospect of another pontificate ending in slurred speech and trembling hands.
The Year of two Popes
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Her speech was slurred and barely comprehensible.
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His speech was slurred and I thought he was drunk.
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His half-shut eyes and slurred, mumbled speech testified to our concerns about his ability and competence to care for Ilija when he takes him two weekends per month.
Global Voices in English » Serbia: Blogging for Justice and Protection
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She could tell by his slurred speech that he had been drinking.
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They include slurred speech, muscle pain and mottled skin.
The Sun
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Victims often have slurred speech and are wheelchair bound.
The Sun
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Perhaps the talk would've been somewhat funny under another circumstance, but with the way she slurred her words, all of the underclassmen present were too worried to utter so much as a giggle.
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Her speech is badly slurred, and the tendency is to dismiss her as a drunk or a druggie.
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Then Alec's heart stood still as this was followed by a sudden burst of singing in a lively, but slurred, baritone.
THE THIRD CLASS GENIE
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He was bearded and probably toothless - for although his voice was resonant it was also oddly slurred.
Times, Sunday Times
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The words were slurred and indistinct, but after listening to a verse repeated several times, Will made out the words and knew he was right about it being a song.
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‘Now scram,’ slurred the voice with a mobster accent.
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Demetrius was back and functioning fine, though sometimes his words slurred, but the doctors were confident the minor speech impediment was temporary.
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All she got in reply was some slurred, unintelligible mumbling.
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It was Constable Shipp's evidence, which I accept, that when the plaintiff was in the breathalyzer room, Shipp could smell the odor of alcohol, his face was flushed and red, his eyes glassy and his speech slurred.
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Baker knows firsthand the devastating effects of MSA, a neurodegenerative terminal illness that causes slurred speech and loss of muscle coordination.
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The last few words were slurred together as he spoke them quickly.
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Speech becomes slurred, dysrhythmic, variable in volume due to inconsistent breath support, and increasingly difficult to understand.
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The set was rather dingy, and some of the dialogue understandably slurred.
Times, Sunday Times
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She had drunk too much and her speech was slurred.
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He took a three-hour snooze in the afternoon and showed signs of mental fatigue because he slurred his way through press conferences, stumbled to the podiums and fell asleep in cabinet meetings.
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Injury or organic disease in the cerebellum may produce such symptoms as a staggering walk, palsy, slurred speech, chronic malaise.
MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
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“I haff a splinter on my tongue,” he slurred, extending it towards me.
Josephine Skinny Jeans: Chapter 3
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This can result in coughing or difficulty breathing or swallowing; a feeling of throat fullness; swelling of the lips, tongue, eyes, palms of hands and soles of feet; confusion; lightheadedness or dizziness; fainting; nausea; diarrhea; palpitations, slurred speech; wheezing; abdominal pain; stomach cramps; anxiety; hives and circulatory collapse shock.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: The Hidden Dangers of Bug Bites
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She could tell by his slurred speech that he had been drinking.
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Tremor can be found in multiple sclerosis often with slurred speech and jerky eye movements, called nystagmus.
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Her speech is badly slurred, and the tendency is to dismiss her as a drunk or a druggie.
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Her speech was slurred-she was clearly drunk.
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He slurred words, intentionally sang out of tune, bleated like a sheep, laughed at himself and made up nonsensical lines.
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Witness said he got a strong smell of drink from the driver, whose speech was slurred and whose eyes were glassy.
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The physique had thickened and the voice was jaded and slightly slurred.
Times, Sunday Times
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the pianist slurred the most beautiful passage in the sonata
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‘She's just being shy,’ Grant slurred at Bryant with a wink before turning back to Janet with a glint in his eye.
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His speech was slurred: he'd clearly been drinking.
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Sure your boys might have lost both their pants and their game thingummyjig but the best is yet to come, something that will absolutely have you rehanging your bunting, repainting your cheek and rechanting those songs that rely more on slurred sentiment than coherent lyrics.
To Kill a Mockingbird: the backlash
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This slurred _evil_ is 'the dram of _eale_' in 'Hamlet.'
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
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She hiccuped a bit and her voice sounded almost slurred.
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The set was rather dingy, and some of the dialogue understandably slurred.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a deep male voice and the way he slurred his words made him sound drunk.
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On their way out, the women shout various slurred, unintelligible insults at the stage.
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Sometimes they got to be very hurried, and then Mrs. Dennistoun saw as in a glass the impatient husband waiting, wondering what she could constantly find to say to her mother; sometimes they were long and detailed, and that meant, as would appear perhaps by a phrase slurred over in the postscript, that Phil had gone away somewhere.
The Marriage of Elinor
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He has been left with slurred speech, and the left side of his body is weak after his brain was damaged.
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The set was rather dingy, and some of the dialogue understandably slurred.
Times, Sunday Times
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Granted, this discussion is peppered with censors' bleeps and is incomprehensible at times due to Ozzy's slurred speech, but it's heartfelt and earnest all the same.
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When we got to the speeches he was so drunk he was really slurred.
The Sun
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They include slurred speech, muscle pain and mottled skin.
The Sun
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She pointedly told Ito that his wife, who is now cohead of the police Internal Affairs Division and was briefly Fuhrman's boss, was among those slurred by Fuhrman.
Who's On Trial Now?
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Once, we could understand everything he said with perfect clarity, but now, everything is garbled and sometimes even slurred.
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Victims often have slurred speech and are wheelchair bound.
The Sun
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Despite aggressive neuroleptic treatment, they continue to be hyperactive, although stiff, ataxic, and slurred in speech.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
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He held the glass in a slightly tipsy toast, speaking to the picture in a slightly slurred voice.
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He felt that his reputation was slurred by a paper.
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In either case the two notes will typically be slurred and played with a diminuendo.
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He has been left with slurred speech, and the left side of his body is weak after his brain was damaged.
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She seems to be beaming in from some universe of her own devising, so far inside her character's addlebrained confusion that everything she says often in a slightly slurred accent that suggests George Jessel is funny.
Archive 2009-12-01
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The general slurred over his contribution to the campaign.
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‘How can a nice middle-class gel like Kirsty go on holiday with that working class oaf,’ she slurred over her usual half-litre of pre-prandial amontillado.
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His speech was slurred and I thought he was drunk.
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She uses a wheelchair for long distances and her speech is slurred.
The Sun
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The slurred word spattered my cheeks with spittle and his foul breath made me flinch.
The Book of Unholy Mischief
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His speech was slurred and he looked a mess.
The Sun
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Its song is a rich, clear warble, though it lacks any buzzy or slurred notes.
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She took a long swing before speaking, her speech slurred from the amount of drink she's had.
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Clara would say, without a word slurred, though she'd been a Southerner all her life, just as Matt had been.
DANSVILLE
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Dershwitz based his conclusion on witnesses who said Reid had slurred speech and difficulty holding up his head at the start of the interview.
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I became quite worried as his speech became more slurred and he began coughing and spluttering.
The Sun
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When authorities spoke to Caselli, he showed signs of intoxication, such as bloodshot and watery eyes, slurred speech and smelled of alcohol, police said.
The Orange County Register - News Headlines : Top Stories
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Nuthatches are noisy with their rapid outbursts of slurred whistles in the treetops.
Times, Sunday Times
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The former is given and laid back with an almost reggae rhythm and the French lyrics hilariously slurred through, and ‘Ruby Tuesday’ is given a barrelhouse piano reading by Johnston.
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A couple of kids chimed in and their voices were lost in a huge mumble of slurred vowels and consonances in my scrambled brain.
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She uses a wheelchair for long distances and her speech is slurred.
The Sun
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He had been a duellist, the manners of the age authorized it — a libertine, the world excused it to his youth and condition — a bold and successful gambler, for that quality he was admired and envied; and a thousand other inaccuracies, to which these practices and habits lead, were easily slurred over in a man of quality, with fortune and spirit to support his rank.
Saint Ronan's Well
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Alex's voice, though not yet slurred, was obviously beginning to take on a drunken edge.
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She spoke back to him but her words were slurred with resistance.
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It's a typically riotous mix of oompah music-hall cavortings, slurred-pitch Middle Eastern rhapsodising, luxuriously sensuous clarinet love-songs, and stormy collective blasts reminiscent of the 1960s John Coltrane quartet.
Gilad Atzmon Orient House Ensemble: The Tide Has Changed
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She could tell by his slurred speech that he had been drinking.
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He stopped for the words came slowly, slurred a little from a brain dulled by the lyddite and the hammering of big guns.
The Sound of Thunder
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Her speech was slurred and barely comprehensible.
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You could tell from his slurred speech that he was drunk.
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From the coiled, flinty Gethsemane, through the almost jaunty I'll Tag Along and One Door Opens to the slurred tango of First Breath, this is an album of exciting accomplishment.
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She maintains her slurred speech was a result of medication.
The Sun
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I've been treated in a most disgraceful manner, I've been second-guessed, my professional reputation has been slurred.
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She said on April 9 officers on patrol found him sitting in his car, which had a puncture, in London Road, with his speech slurred and eyes glazed.
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He was almost all the way through his speech when his words suddenly slurred, he coughed and he appeared to lean on the lectern for support.
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In 1956, the first human patient of what soon became known as Minamata disease was identified. Symptoms included convulsions, slurred speech, loss of motor functions and uncontrollable limb movements.
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His gait is still uncertain and his speech slurred.
Times, Sunday Times
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His gait is still uncertain and his speech slurred.
Times, Sunday Times
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Spencer slurred the word " pecuniary ," but I didn't correct his pronunciation.
THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
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His speech is slurred because the right side of his face is paralysed from the last stroke.
Times, Sunday Times
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But soon Emma, a pathology and cytology student at Tameside Hospital, started to lose her co-ordination, her speech became slurred and she couldn't concentrate.
