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Example Sentences

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“Such as … What if you could take some … straw and spin … uh … gold?”

From Literature

“Uh … tell her I’m sorry to make her worry. I’ll be home soon.”

From Literature

“But I’ve heard tales … stories of those who can spin wonderful things. Not regular yarn, but more … uh … valuable things.”

From Literature

Um, you know, I think that I, uh, this is such a, you know, I think that this is a, this is of course, a very longstanding, um, policy of the United States and I think what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point, and we want to make sure that we are moving in all of our economic research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation and for that question to even arise.

From Salon

“Y’know, it is, I, the two, the two that I am on the panel with are much more steeped in foreign policy than is, than a governor is, but, um, you know, I do think that, uh, Ukraine’s independence, keeping their, their land mass, and having, um, the support of, of all the allies, I think is, is, the goal—from my vantage point.”

From The Wall Street Journal