Example Sentences

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What is less and less clear, in the interaction between the potential Presidents and the crowd, is who is humoring whom.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 18, 2015

Even if he is humoring her, at least he isn’t a coward.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

"Emma Jane," said Mrs. Haley, in the tone of one who is humoring a child, "these ladies are from the North."

From Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches by Harris, Joel Chandler