Sentence examples for filler word from inspiring English sources

Also, consider using literal pauses in instead of using a filler word.

Martin says that adding "just" as a filler word in sentences — as in, "I just think that... ...... — may seem harmless, "but it can detract from what you're saying".

The paper they produced, published in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology, has the beautiful title "Um … Who Like Says You Know: Filler Word Use as a Function of Age, Gender and Personality".

Ways to diagnose: Use audio recording, video recording or have a partner listen to you speak and use a signal (a sign, or yelling STOP!) whenever you use a filler word.

/ Well / Twice I got knocked up / By mistake — / Like who asked them to get made / I / Don't like rubbers / Yeah / For beer and c-cks / Raw is best / You know"), and seasoned with slang expressions, like se-fure, for "sex friend," and mitaina, a filler word that is the equivalent of "like, you know".

We're asked to accept, for instance, that Posy is simultaneously a provocatively brilliant scholar and a ditzy ingénue who betrays all the telltale linguistic tics of a Valley Girl, such as peppering her speech with the filler word "like" and turning every statement into a tentative, like, y'know, question?

Like filler words, pauses give you a chance to take a break and figure out what comes next.

I started stripping my emails of all those filler words, all those semi-apologies I didn't really mean.

Ms. DiResta recommended that I listen to myself in a conversation and keep a running tally of how and when I used filler words, and to be mindful of my pitch.

Filler words?

Excessive use of filler words when speaking.