Sample Sentences for
demur
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  • "I know how full Jacqueline keeps your schedule," I demur.†  (source)
  • And Pilgrim did not balk nor even for a moment demur.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • O'Brien's servant, however, had admitted the two of them without demur.†  (source)
  • Each time she asks to accompany him, he demurs.†  (source)
  • Instead of demurring politely, Singbe shot back angrily.†  (source)
  • But when I uttered, mildly and with some amusement, the standard demurral of the literary aesthete, he outflanked me neatly again.†  (source)
  • 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.
  • I was haunted by my helpless bureaucratic demurrals in the face of his desperation and the silence of his response.†  (source)
  • Sensing a crisis of protocol, the manager demurred and said he would have to confer with the board.†  (source)
  • So, without demur, they joined the party in my rooms, one of the last of the old kind that I gave.†  (source)
  • "I guess," he demurs, and changes the subject.†  (source)
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