Sentence examples for hmph from inspiring English sources

But they can certainly provoke a smile and a "hmph" and that feeling of mental constraint-and-release which is the essence of laughter.

Yet there was a notable hmph of dissatisfaction, in 2010, when Obama noted that he identified as black on the census.

"Once, a woman came in and said, 'These shoes are really just for the bedroom!' " "Hmph!" I replied.

An admissions officer may even go "hmph".

He said, 'There are gonna be five books,' and I said, hmph.

"Hmph," she says.

House!? Hmph.

Unh! Hmph! Accursed little spheroid, accursed clubbed stick!

The former lineuppers have sacrificed the pleasure of self-congratulatory umbrage, also known as Hmph, Good Thing Society Has People Like Me.