humoring
Example Sentences
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Humoring me, she would ask that I would tell her further what I saw.
From The Way of a Man by Hough, Emerson
Humoring Marjorie's impatience, the good-natured gardener helped her plant the seeds in a sunny flowerbed, and raked the dirt neatly over them with an experienced touch.
From Marjorie's Vacation by Wells, Carolyn
To the portal gleaming, where the waiting sphinxes, Humoring his dreaming, give him what he thinks is Key to the arcana—plausible equation Of the problems many in his incarnation.
From The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems by Victor, Frances Fuller
