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UK
/hˈɛm/
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[ US /ˈhɛm/ ]
[ US /ˈhɛm/ ]
NOUN
- the utterance of a sound similar to clearing the throat; intended to get attention, express hesitancy, fill a pause, hide embarrassment, warn a friend, etc.
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the edge of a piece of cloth; especially the finished edge that has been doubled under and stitched down
he stitched weights into the curtain's hem
let down the hem
the hem of her dress was stained
it seeped along the hem of his jacket
VERB
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fold over and sew together to provide with a hem
hem my skirt - utter `hem' or `ahem'
How To Use hem In A Sentence
- She tore her eyes from them for a moment to spy the bodhrán player in the tree, tapping out her rhythm with her eyes closed, not noticing the spy amongst them.
- It sparked to life in the second act, when the symbolism gave way to themes of lust and sexual temptation.
- By the time harmony was a few centuries old, it began to shiver and shake from them.
- I bought a dozen eggs and every one of them was bad.
- He watched them disappear from his view, his father still waddling along with that bloody basket.
- Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town. The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)
- He hoped the roots would harbor the fungi and spread them throughout the compost, but the fungi didn't spread well enough.
- The protests were going on about 1 kilometers away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gass used among them, towards Salehi St. The film is shot by my friend who was standing beside me. Iran Election Live-Blogging (Saturday June 20 Part II)
- The bombardment of the GPO had fascinated MacMurrough: the annunciatory puffs of smoke and the flames that roared to greet them; then the crashing gun’s report, the shell’s eruption—an illogical sequence, effect before cause, an object lesson in the madness of war. At Swim, Two Boys
- Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
