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"Er" in a Sentence (16 examples)
"Er, that 'mixer party' thing is then ..." "Just a normal get together."
"Is that implying that I go get some sugar in me and then work more?" "Er?" "No, sorry. I'm just sulking a bit."
"Did you possibly not notice until just now?" "Er, well ... it was just so beyond my imagination that ..."
So I thought my date, er rather, offline-meeting was going to be just me and her but things aren't that easy.
Er, could we swap mobile numbers next time?
Er, Sir? What's written on the blackboard isn't an exponential function but a trigonometric one ...
Down there hurts, down there. Er, what do you call them? Testicles? In any case a male's 'important parts'.
"Let's see, you're ... er, um ... M-" "You're wrong from the first letter!!"
"What's up? Fidgeting like that" "Er, well, it looks like the elastic's gone in my pants."
"Er, Karin ..., shouldn't we call it a night soon?" "No! No quitting while ahead! Next time I'll win for sure!"
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“Er...Feathered Omen, hoot not,” he continued uneasily, “Son of Tanit, hoot not!”
As the years go by, speech reverts to childhood levels of disfluency, with more pauses, more errors, more repeated words, but even the peak years are not great: up to 8 percent of the average person’s word output consists of meaningless fillers and placeholders like um, uh and er.
If he—er—disappears—well, it seems to me that we'd both benefit.
Liquid Samurai: 'FORMLESS AND INFINITE ARE WE, THE LIQUID SAMURAI. I SERVE MY QUEEN, AS WE HAVE FOR COUNTLESS--' / Mona: 'HEY, I DON'T MEAN TO INTERRUPT, BUT YOU SEEM LIKE YOU'RE MADE OF POWERFUL STUFF. CAN I, ER, STUDY YOU?'
He ummed and erred his way through the presentation.
Although Shakespeare refers to “hums and ha’s,” sifting through etiquette manuals and public-speaking guides turns up scant evidence of a prohibition against ums, ers and uhs, which are profuse in the first recording of Thomas Edison’s voice, in 1888. Mr. Erard, rather ingeniously, traces the prohibition on um and other speech flaws to the advent of radio in the early 1920s.
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