demur

Example Sentences

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I demur, along with members of the British royal family apparently.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2025

Most virologists demur when asked about which variant — or variants — will be infecting people this winter.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2022

If Goodell has a damning instinct to demur, it’s also true that since 2014 he has wrought a visible difference in the space he can most immediately affect, the league headquarters on Park Avenue.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2021

But when pressed for what that might mean, they tended to demur, saying simply that, if called, they would serve their side in a conflict.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2021

She would always demur, saying, “You would not hear those olden, shrieking things.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson