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Examples

  • (Friend Neville Hobson hurrumphed and (sort of) came down against the Cap'n on the Hobson-Holtz Report, too.)

    Allan Jenkins' Desirable Roasted Coffee 2005

  • (Friend Neville Hobson hurrumphed and (sort of) came down against the Cap'n on the Hobson-Holtz Report, too.)

    Allan Jenkins' Desirable Roasted Coffee 2005

  • Shorty, in acknowledgment of the weather, hurrumphed and passed a white-gloved hand to his mouth.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • Shorty, in acknowledgment of the weather, hurrumphed and passed a white-gloved hand to his mouth.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • He merely hurrumphed and turned his key in the ignition.

    Twilight Nancy Pickard 1995

  • Everyone hurrumphed at the arrival of the supremely confident Mourinho from Porto with comparisons of Bobby Robson et al and almost everyone was ready to say yeah but the Portuguese League is nothing like the Premier League.

    The Guardian World News Dominic Fifield 2011

  • I grumbled and hurrumphed in Yoda's voice as I made my way down the gangway.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • "The historian hurrumphed into the phone, which then clicked dead.

    Wagers of Sin Asprin, Robert 1996

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