Sentence examples for the umm from inspiring English sources

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the umm

interjection

Interjection implying hesitation; see um.

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Southend, at the, umm, south end of the peninsula is a joy to behold.

Life here can be traced back to the Umm al-Nar people in the third century B.C.

Amnesty also criticized the American military for not allowing the organization access to the Umm Qasr detention center.

The Umm Qasr townsfolk scrambled after that food like pigeons jostling for bread crumbs in a park.

Even more excitingly, next summer in 2010, England will host the, umm, West Indies for four Tests and five ODIs.

The project, the Umm el-Fahem Museum of Contemporary Art, is just one among the many developments in a trend that is quietly taking shape in Israel.

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Good teacher, too, not dickhead teacher who loses the room and goes "UMM!" and "UHH!

I had removed the umms and the aaahs, his slight hesitations and my annoying interjections.

This inspired the name for the site, Umm Mawagir.

The Humr people of Sudan consume the drink Umm Nyolokh; which is created from the liver and marrow of giraffes.

Throughout the 1960s, she was the "first lady of Lebanese singing", although overshadowed on the Arab stage by the giant Umm Kalthoum.

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