Sample Sentences fordemur (editor-reviewed)
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She demurred at my suggestion to work on Saturday.demurred = disagreed
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She demurred the pleading.demurred = law: a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings through a demurrer (saying there is a problem with the pleading regardless of the facts of the case)
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...and we were subjected to a lengthy review of the evidence with Jem's ideas on the law regarding rape: ... "Jem," Reverend Sykes demurred, "this ain't a polite thing for little ladies to hear…" (source)demurred = objected
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"I know how full Jacqueline keeps your schedule," I demur.† (source)
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And Pilgrim did not balk nor even for a moment demur.† (source)
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If they demur?† (source)
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"He was too kind," she demurred, trying to remain modest and calm, though her heart was singing.† (source)
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O'Brien's servant, however, had admitted the two of them without demur.† (source)
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Each time she asks to accompany him, he demurs.† (source)
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Instead of demurring politely, Singbe shot back angrily.† (source)
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But when I uttered, mildly and with some amusement, the standard demurral of the literary aesthete, he outflanked me neatly again.† (source)
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I dare not, dear,—Dear my lord, pardon,—I dare not, Lest I be taken: not the imperious show Of the full-fortun'd Caesar ever shall Be brooch'd with me; if knife, drugs, serpents, have Edge, sting, or operation, I am safe; Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes And still conclusion, shall acquire no honour Demuring upon me.† (source)unconventional spelling: This is typically spelled demurring.
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I was haunted by my helpless bureaucratic demurrals in the face of his desperation and the silence of his response.† (source)
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Sensing a crisis of protocol, the manager demurred and said he would have to confer with the board.† (source)
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So, without demur, they joined the party in my rooms, one of the last of the old kind that I gave.† (source)
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"I guess," he demurs, and changes the subject.† (source)
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