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Examples
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No way that is Wisconsin ... uhhh ... mountains in the background ...
Bucks on Ice! 2009
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Dude - he can quote the Muslim call to prayer in Arabic. uhhh, what is everyone supposed to think?
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Dude - he can quote the Muslim call to prayer in Arabic. uhhh, what is everyone supposed to think?
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Because Mr. Sawyer says "uhhh ..." before answering, it is clear that he was asked this question suddenly, as if stepping out of the shower, or startled out of deep sleep, by an unexpected and inopportune interviewer.
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True he is an accomplished orator, however so subdued in impromptu situations that his chief crutch is "uhhh".
Barack Obama — "He's a Vulcan, no doubt about it. Now the question arises, do we want a Vulcan for president? Are we ready for a Vulcan president?" Ann Althouse 2008
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A quick Google search found over seven million hits for "uhhh" and over twenty-one million hits for "ummm."
Language as a spherical cow josh 2008
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A quick Google search found over seven million hits for "uhhh" and over twenty-one million hits for "ummm."
Archive 2008-01-01 josh 2008
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But it was kind of funny ... one of the ladies had never been on television before and PROMISED me that she would not say "uhhh" or "ummmm" on television because she HATED people that did that.
GETTING INTO THE SANTA MOOD unclebob 2003
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Wheeee " uhhh " Gairloch tossed his head, prancing for an instant, then slowing down.
The Magic of Recluce Modesitt, L. E. 1991
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Wheeee " uhhh " That was Gairloch's only reply, but he kept putting one foot in front of the other, as if he had no choice.
The Magic of Recluce Modesitt, L. E. 1991
bilby commented on the word uhhh
"Smoking of the lake, staccato scansion of the potholes tearing up
Burnham’s grid, pathos of plans to haul all the basement suitcases
full of ice-chunks across the bought-out offset carbon paths into the
red blot of Pacific lingering in the daily graphs of the explainers..."
- Polar Vortextet,http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2016/05/aeolian-harping-materiality-of-poetry-in-the-age-of-digital-reproduction-ecoprecarity-part-1/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HarrietTheBlog+%28Harriet%3A+The+Blog%29
May 27, 2016
qms commented on the word uhhh
So now we know where Spamski gets those blocks of text, although I have to say that "Smoking of the lake..." is a less lively example than most.
May 27, 2016