How to Use uh in a Sentence

uh

interjection
  • These guys, uh, and girls are nuts.
    — Outside Online, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Like, uh, that's just like part of me.
    — Outside Online, 24 Sep. 2025
  • And uh, win lose or draw, holy f--- dude.
    — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 21 Nov. 2025
  • And, uh, take a look at your bird seed.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 8 Oct. 2025
  • That's, uh, was not part of the grand plan.
    — Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2025
  • So, uh, that is where this, this book was born.
    — Outside Online, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Can you guys help us, uh, go and talk to them?
    — Betsy Shuller, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2026
  • But is the jolly old guy, uh, hot?
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
  • And, uh, some countries get much more.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2026
  • And again, uh, that’s where my focus is.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2026
  • Ate leisurely went for a swim, uh, naked swim.
    — Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Um, well, uh, that's a great question.
    — Outside Online, 17 Dec. 2025
  • That's, uh, that's a tough question.
    — Outside Online, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Um, but yet, uh, Kyle got ninth that first year, so.
    — Outside Online, 15 Oct. 2025
  • No, Matt and I, uh, used to be friends.
    — Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 8 Mar. 2026
  • That’s, uh, not how any of this works, but his heart was in the right place.
    — Dominic Pino, National Review, 13 June 2021
  • But how does the beetle get the frog to, uh, open up the hatch?
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 3 Aug. 2020
  • If the munchkins do plan on munching on the chia, please, uh, don’t.
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 25 Nov. 2023
  • But uh, something weird is going on with a whole lot of them.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Look, uh, isn't this, isn't this child supposed to get some more medicine tonight?
    — CBS News, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Enter online for your, uh, shot to pay a dime to drink a beer.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 19 Mar. 2021
  • There are a lot of them seen in the trailer acting, uh, spooky.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 17 Dec. 2025
  • And uh, that was the start of a very rough chapter in my childhood.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 13 Aug. 2024
  • And then, uh, yeah, the rest is history, dude.
    — Outside Online, 30 July 2025
  • But dude, it is stocked to the gills with, uh, pun intended.
    — Outside Online, 30 July 2025
  • So, using gloves is not an excuse to not, uh, wash your hands.
    — Anna Kuchment, Dallas News, 12 June 2020
  • So, uh, who's telling Vance that his girlfriend might be a thief?
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2022
  • That's a — that's a tough one to talk about because there's, uh, there's so much.
    — Betsy Shuller, CBS News, 30 Nov. 2025
  • The rest of it is … uh-huh, the echo … made for making money.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Mar. 2022
  • And, uh, the person who is filming.
    — Outside Online, 25 Feb. 2026

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