How To Use humoring In A Sentence
- Some modern students of the Bible don’t like the term propitiation because they say it implies pagan notions about fickle gods who need humoring and prefer instead the term expiation NRSV. THE NAMES OF JESUS
- But humoring allies counts for little in itself, and negotiating for its own sake has no appeal.
- ‘Well, that's always good to hear,’ the nurse said, humoring me.
- However, it's possible they were just humoring me.
- She had begun by "humoring" the delirious man; but now she found his delirium taking a course which was excessively embarrassing. The American Baron
- You always address me by my proper title of Madam, and without the touch of irony which others indulge in when 'humoring' me, as they call it! The Hidden Hand
- The most expeditious way to get through the evening is by humouring me. MURDER IN E MINOR
- Her present reversal of mood may either be humoring me or be genuinely better intentioned.
- He is at once hugely affable and yet faintly sulky, the dogged, world-weary NCO in some ancient sitcom, say, wearily humouring the la-di-da adjutant in the knowledge that everything will soon go badly wrong.
- I've met one other person in my life who has related to this, although actually with hindsight I think she might just have been humouring me.
