haw

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• We hemmed and hawed endlessly about how to approach our new neighbors about this.

• Any senator interested in having a higher platform from which to attract attention can hem and haw over any picayune vote to their heart’s content.

• If I could sum it up in a few choice words, I would, but instead I hem and haw, before stumbling through some rambling rejoinder.

• They back away and hem and haw and leave it to the lower courts to implement their decisions.

• A chorus of haw haws, showed how delighted his fellow-clowns were with farmer Joe's story.

• The Irish title of the letter a or haw is alif, as also is the Arabian: the Greek alpha is either alpa or alfa.

• This seemed a good joke, and they all howled and haw-hawed gleefully.

• Why do these—these people at the fort hem and haw and hesitate when they speak about him?

• He looked like an animated drying-post, and the Dutch boy, in spite of his troubles, began to haw-haw wildly.