articulate

He was hardly articulate as he spoke of it.

So furious was he that he was hardly articulate, and when he did speak it was in a much broader and more Western dialect than any which we had heard from him in the morning.

Maximilian tried to speak, but he could articulate nothing; he staggered, and supported himself against the wainscot.

He wished to articulate a last farewell, but his tongue lay motionless and heavy in his throat, like a stone at the mouth of a sepulchre.