humped

Example Sentences

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"No organization," they humphed, and continued to let their candidate carry on alone.

From Time Magazine Archive

My ancestors," he humphed, "had other things to do during the Conquest than keep their archives straight for Burke's.

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They humphed at Labor's assertion that the fair would be a lodestone for foreign visitors and a shot in the arm for those at home.

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"How can the country know that, if we don't get a chance to see him?" humphed another.

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She humphed and hemmed and slurped her coffee without answering, but as soon as I’d gotten my book again and was settled down on the couch and reading, she said, “It’s onto four o’clock.”

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson