Example Sentences

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That's the premise of Ben Egerman's one-man show in which the last man alive makes his final stand against the machines, using the one thing we have that killer robots never will: humor.

From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2010

I will humor his dream to that extent.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

“Close my eyes! Very well. I will humor you, but only out of boredom.”

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

Very well, for a night or two I will humor you, and Read shall sleep in the room; but now clearly understand I allow no bedroom suppers and no gossip—but Read will see to that.

From A Very Naughty Girl by Meade, L. T.

Mardi grows fastidious in names: we royalties will humor it.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman