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hmm

/ mm /

interjection

  1. a sound made when considering or puzzling over something
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Hmm, who are these people standing in front of the machines at the gym, neither occupying them nor not occupying them?

Hmm, I can think of one self-respecting sister who would hide.

To which one would say: Hmm, the homeless man with perfect organs would have had to have been over 500 years old.

She pulls and pinches at the fabric and says, “Hmm,” which is hard to interpret.

Hmm, I wonder what it was about Obama that inflamed passions so.

"Hmm, convulsions," he finally said softly to himself, and Mr. Narkom watched his face with intense eagerness.

Hmm; most young ladies who have visited us have seemed afraid rather than pleased.

I will take the picture off his hands and allow him—hmm—maybe two hundred dollars; or, he can take it and owe me that much more.

Hmm—he might, although a foreigner, be forced to take a journey to Siberia.

Hmm, it's not as fragrant as might be; that is, Not before it's smeared.

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