Hawing means: present participle and gerund of haw. Below you'll find 6 example sentences showing how to use Hawing in practice.
Hawing in a sentence
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Hawing meaning
present participle and gerund of haw
Example types with hawing
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
After another bit of hemming and hawing, there was really not an answer. (13 words)
They’ll be players coming over to England and clubs will still be humming and hawing about taking them. (19 words)
After much hemming and hawing about how the Denver Nuggets would replace Bruce Brown, the final answer was: we will figure it out. (23 words)
The “t” and the accent were his own inventions, after some characteristic hemming and hawing.) It’s not Inskeep’s fault that Frémont was stuffy, indecisive, not very quotable and driven by self-interest. (34 words)
For all the hemming and hawing they do about Hollywood, they’re the ones who elected a cowboy movie actor as president, and now a pro wrestler turned “reality” TV game show host. (33 words)
At the end of season 8, Rachel has a daughter named Emma and there’s a lot of hemming and hawing if she’ll be with Ross or new love interest Joey. (32 words)
Example sentences (6)
After much hemming and hawing about how the Denver Nuggets would replace Bruce Brown, the final answer was: we will figure it out.
The “t” and the accent were his own inventions, after some characteristic hemming and hawing.) It’s not Inskeep’s fault that Frémont was stuffy, indecisive, not very quotable and driven by self-interest.
After another bit of hemming and hawing, there was really not an answer.
At the end of season 8, Rachel has a daughter named Emma and there’s a lot of hemming and hawing if she’ll be with Ross or new love interest Joey.
For all the hemming and hawing they do about Hollywood, they’re the ones who elected a cowboy movie actor as president, and now a pro wrestler turned “reality” TV game show host.
They’ll be players coming over to England and clubs will still be humming and hawing about taking them.
Common combinations with hawing
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and hawing 6×
- hawing about 2×