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- verb Present participle of
hmm .
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Examples
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She makes a hmming noise in the back of her throat.
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But the timing just couldn't be worse, coming in the midst of my partner of 3 and a half years and I hmming and hawing about whether or not we are staying together.
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But the timing just couldn't be worse, coming in the midst of my partner of 3 and a half years and I hmming and hawing about whether or not we are staying together.
Just because it is the right decision doesn't mean it is easy AbortionBlogger 2008
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(He's really hmming and hawwing …) There are failures every single day in something.
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Brennan told Shahin that the post-9/11 response of the Bush administration was a "reaction some people might say was over the top in some areas" (insert indignant grievance-monger nodding and mmm-hmming here), and that "in an overabundance of caution, (we) implemented a number of security measures and activities that upon reflection now we look back, after the heat of the battle has died down a bit, we say they were excessive, OK."
Daily News-Record 2010
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a few years back my wife and I were hmming and hawing on getting a dog. one day whilst meandering through a mall, we happened upon a petstore and found a cute little multi-poo.
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