How To Use Humoring In A Sentence
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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
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But humoring allies counts for little in itself, and negotiating for its own sake has no appeal.
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‘Well, that's always good to hear,’ the nurse said, humoring me.
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However, it's possible they were just humoring me.
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She had begun by "humoring" the delirious man; but now she found his delirium taking a course which was excessively embarrassing.
The American Baron
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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
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The most expeditious way to get through the evening is by humouring me.
MURDER IN E MINOR
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Her present reversal of mood may either be humoring me or be genuinely better intentioned.
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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.
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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.
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G.M. is 'humoring' Gwen, whose delight and range of emotions is shown in face and body.
A few moments of theory, and many minutes of pure arousal.
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You're right,’ she said, humoring him with an indulgent smile.
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‘Well, that's always good to hear,’ the nurse said, humoring me.
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Hey Katy, thanks so much for humouring me and leaving a pirate-stylie comment on my blog!
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I feel like I'm the only girl on the boy's team and they're humouring me.
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The women looked at the photograph, but you could see they were just humouring him.
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Their failure to satisfy a zealous and unsympathetic referee contributed to their downfall, whereas the home team's humouring of his idiosyncrasies meant that we only conceded two penalties before half time.
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However, it's possible they were just humoring me.
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Since I believe in humoring people, it says so in the US Constitution:
The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School
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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.
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The most expeditious way to get through the evening is by humouring me.
MURDER IN E MINOR
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The most expeditious way to get through the evening is by humouring me.
MURDER IN E MINOR
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Not that I don't like talking to you, but I always feel like you're just humoring me when you listen to me rave about this show or that show.
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That so many around the world are humoring his grandiosity is owing mainly to the country's impressive deposits of oil, which began to be developed intensively after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Sultan of the Steppes
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The hawks saw the new policy as providing political cover for war, humoring the international community while remaining hostile to the return of the weapons inspectors.
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I feel like I'm the only girl on the boy's team and they're humouring me.
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You're right,’ she said, humoring him with an indulgent smile.
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humoring" Phoebe's madness, with its implied subterfuges and equivocations.
The Panchronicon
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The second I said it I kind of tensed and told myself I should be humoring him, that I was a sixty-four-year-old man with high blood pressure and worse cholesterol and he looked like a cruiserweight boxer.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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If for nothing else than for the wisdom he showed in humoring John Kennedy Toole's mother and actually reading, then publishing, the yellowed manuscript she planted on his desk at LSU.
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Not that I don't like talking to you, but I always feel like you're just humoring me when you listen to me rave about this show or that show.
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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
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Repeatedly have colours to be coaxed to behave themselves as pigments, coaxed not to 'run,' to work well, to dry well, &c.; and in the humouring of their likes and dislikes the skill and patience of the artist-colourman are sometimes severely taxed.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
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The women looked at the photograph, but you could see they were just humouring him.
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Liberals may be humoring themselves, but for the moment it's fun to watch slippery conservative politicians—Newt, Mitt Romney—try to scramble to ride the tiger.
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Liberals may be humoring themselves, but for the moment it's fun to watch slippery conservative politicians—Newt, Mitt Romney—try to scramble to ride the tiger.
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You sure she wasn't just humouring you, reassuring you, guilting you into staying?
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I will not be discussing this with you anymore, bluesky; I prefer to discuss with people who don't mistake engaging in reasoned discussing to be "humoring" someone.
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