hu

Example Sentences

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In Mandarin, ma means horse and hu means tiger; the idiom mamahuhu literally translates, then, as “horse horse tiger tiger.”

From New York Times • May 18, 2022

Request the “dry” version of hu tieu, with the broth served on the side instead of as a soup.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 27, 2018

I stuttered over “hu … hu … hu …”, and then, feeling embarrassed at my own stupidity, I finished with: “Violet’s father.”

From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2017

We shall typically assume that each of these functions has continuous first partial derivatives, which means gu, gv, hu, and hv exist and are also continuous.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

Nu trahtna� se papa Gregorius �is godspel, and cwy�, ��t gehw� wundra� hu se H�lend become in to his apostolum, and w�ron �eah-hw��ere �a dura belocene.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham