hu
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Example Sentences
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In Mandarin, ma means horse and hu means tiger; the idiom mamahuhu literally translates, then, as “horse horse tiger tiger.”
From New York Times • May 18, 2022
Request the “dry” version of hu tieu, with the broth served on the side instead of as a soup.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 27, 2018
I stuttered over “hu … hu … hu …”, and then, feeling embarrassed at my own stupidity, I finished with: “Violet’s father.”
From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2017
We shall typically assume that each of these functions has continuous first partial derivatives, which means gu, gv, hu, and hv exist and are also continuous.
From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016
“Hu hu, I smell human flesh!” he cried.
From The Norwegian Fairy Book by Stroebe, Clara
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