Sentence examples for hmm- from inspiring English sources
You're telling me you don't have hundreds of men popping into your cubicle in the accounting department of your mid-sized, regional dry-goods distributor to inform you that – hmm – you're too fat to rape, but perhaps they'll saw you up with an electric knife?
Especially when they are ebooks called Young Tales of the Old Cosmos, and the cover is a picture of three moons with human expressions best described as "Buh?", "Hmm" and "Ooh".
A night or so later, I saw it on my bedside table and thought, "Hmm, I know something else that could be used for.
"I was very pleased to introduce this very talented singer songwriter to you.... ...... Hmm.
Hmm … it must have been the pre-SST sonic boom.
Is she talking about Lady Gaga? "Mmm-hmm.
In one terrific early sketch, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X get caught up competing for praise from an older black audience, throwing in iconic quotes from famous speeches, vying to earn loud "Mmm-hmm s, and finally devolving into a dance-off.
Americans bear the lion's share of R&D costs, subsidising socialised medical systems in the process, while foreigners are classic "free riders".Hmm.Hmm
Although mocked by economists as a prime example of the "lump-of-labour" fallacy the idea that there is only so much work to go around the government claims that it had created 240,000 jobs by the end of 2000.Hmm.
It is a chance for our great grandchildren to pay less than they otherwise would have expected to, because of this government's fiscal credibility".Hmm.Hmm
