um
or umm
(used as an expression of doubt, hesitation, deliberation, interest, etc.)
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How to use um in a sentence
“um, I have one now, for one,” Kirke laughs, about that new relationship.
‘Mozart in the Jungle’: Inside Amazon’s Brave New World of Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music | Kevin Fallon | December 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTum, when I first heard of it, it was somebody hitting me up on Twitter telling me I should be playing Whitney.
Inside the Lifetime Whitney Houston Movie’s Lesbian Lover Storyline | Kevin Fallon | December 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTum, I was getting ready for Talking Dead so I would try to check in, but I also was like a little bit…scared?
Exit Interview: The Walking Dead's Beth Tells All | Melissa Leon | December 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd Glenn, Tara, and Rosita spend the episode, um, learning to fish.
The Walking Dead’s ‘Crossed’: The Stage Is Now Set for a Bloody, Deadly Midseason Finale | Melissa Leon | November 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTEr, um, because the people dying of Ebola in West Africa are black?
Ebola Scare-Mongerer Rand Paul Wants You to Think You’re Going to Die | Sally Kohn | October 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
"um, that's better," admitted Grace, while the girls craned their necks for a better view of the horseman.
The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle | Laura Lee HopeKano's transient flowers were grown, for the most part in pots, and these his daughter um-ko loved to tend.
The Dragon Painter | Mary McNeil Fenollosaum-ko and her father were well known at the temple, and worshipped often before its golden altars.
The Dragon Painter | Mary McNeil FenollosaShe peered at first into um's room for there, indeed, lay the core of old Mata's heart.
The Dragon Painter | Mary McNeil FenollosaKano heard a man's deep tones, Mata's thin voice answering an enquiry, and then the soft murmur of um's words.
The Dragon Painter | Mary McNeil Fenollosa
British Dictionary definitions for um (1 of 2)
/ (ʌm, əm) /
a representation of a common sound made when hesitating in speech
British Dictionary definitions for um (2 of 2)
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