Sentence examples for to be mum from inspiring English sources

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to be mum

verb

To exist; to have real existence.

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Vice President Dick Cheney continues to be mum about his role as chief executive of Halliburton.

Now he was surrounded by road warriors sharing their tales, told to be mum as the truck pulled into a weigh station.

It is still more likely to be mum, not dad, who shoulders most of the childcare, a trend that will be hard to reverse as long as dad's job is the more lucrative.

My current pattern of Thursday night's 5 Live Sport and Saturday Breakfast suits me down to the ground – I spend so much time away at sports events, it's good to be able to have time at home to be mum, to go to my daughters' school plays and netball matches.

Writers tend to be mum on what they are currently at work on, but what about a different, but still intimate, aspect to their creative routines like what they eat?

They have a mum who doesn't know them individually and who doesn't remember how to be Mum.

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If the public wants childless women to be mums – shunning other options such as surrogacy and adoption – is it prepared to pay a higher rate of national insurance?

Justice Thomas, true to form, was mum during the oral argument.

But what have the song poets and pop to say? Pop is mum, it has nothing to say about Vietnam.

Some even offer "In Silence" badges, so guests don't have to explain to others why they're mum.

She is mum to 12-year-old Ellie who has autism.

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