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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of harumph.

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Examples

  • French TV cameras showed Hincapie as he watched Nocentini's pack cross the finish line — and he harumphed in frustration that he had not garnered the yellow shirt.

    Ivanov wins Stage 14, Hincapie misses yellow jersey at Tour 2009

  • I had an indignant uncle who wore galoshes and he harumphed a lot.

    The Sad, Sorry Plight of the White Christian Merakin 2009

  • When PBR started showing up in places where it would have been harumphed upon, that's when it became "trendy" for hipster recruitment centers like Union Pool, where people wear $179 pants, can find it acceptable to swill 2 for $5 cans not man-cans, mind you of PBR.

    Ambiguity: Mixed Messages and Style Overlap BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • He shouldn't have asked Webb about his son, my acquaintance harumphed, and so on and so on.

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • Picard harumphed, getting into the spirit of the exchange.

    A CALL TO DARKNESS MICHAEL JAN FRIEDMAN 2000

  • I greet you in the name of the Hall of Light. 4 The head soldier harumphed.

    Riverwind the Plainsman Thompson, Paul B. 1990

  • Tully harumphed and scowled and muttered to himself but did not argue.

    The Silver Spike Cook, Glen 1989

  • Mundwiller harumphed, tapped his pipe out in the fire place, began repacking it.

    An Ill Fate Marshalling Cook, Glen 1988

  • Gen. Toseff harumphed angrily at this impudent remark but Atlan gave him a signal to calm himself.

    The Emperor and the Monster Voltz, William 1977

  • The Ambassador took a seat, harumphed importantly, straightened his tie, frowned around the table.

    Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973

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