humoring
Example Sentences
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The tail-wagging golden retrievers and teens humoring their parents cleared out of the way.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2023
As I have grown older, I have come to realize he wasn’t being humored by me as much as he was humoring me.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2022
“What is the downside for humoring him for this little bit of time?” a senior Republican official told The Washington Post.
From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2020
If you are communicating to him in any way that you’re humoring him, I believe this is a serious misstep.
From Slate • Feb. 16, 2020
I poked my head into the twins’ room, humoring my sisters as they sorted through a pile of unfolded laundry in the middle of the full-size bed.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
