How to Use uh in a Sentence

uh

interjection

• But how does the beetle get the frog to, uh, open up the hatch?
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 3 Aug. 2020
• In the words of The Dude: That’s just like, uh, my opinion, man.
  — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 16 Oct. 2024
• That’s, uh, not how any of this works, but his heart was in the right place.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 13 June 2021
• If the munchkins do plan on munching on the chia, please, uh, don’t.
  — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 25 Nov. 2023
• The one caveat to this rule: getting a techy gift that doesn't... uh... work.
  — Lee Neikirk, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2020
• The rest of it is … uh-huh, the echo … made for making money.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Mar. 2022
• And uh, that was the start of a very rough chapter in my childhood.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 13 Aug. 2024
• Hemsworth might be the most self-aware himbo to grace the screen since, uh, Brad Pitt (?)!
  — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 23 Oct. 2020
• Well, uh, might wanna make room in the bunker with the rest of the doomsday preppers.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 2 Sep. 2021
• There’s a new shortstop in town, who, uh, was the old shortstop.
  — Andrew Hammond, Detroit Free Press, 12 Aug. 2021
• So, uh, who's telling Vance that his girlfriend might be a thief?
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2022
• 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
• That’s a record number of teams in the poll, breaking the record that occurred, uh, last week.
  — oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023
• And then there was Cobain’s voice: as thin and malleable as a sheet of, uh, lithium.
  — Brad Shoup, Billboard, 24 Mar. 2022
• But sometimes things that start in the shallow end move deeper in the, uh, pool of love?
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 28 Oct. 2022
• But, uh-oh, the boss isn’t pleased with our performance.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2022
• My mom called me into her room, and uh, Gabby's face was all over the news.
  — CBS News, 25 Sep. 2021
• On behalf of me and my faammm-uh-leeee, bless your hearts.
  — Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 18 July 2022
• Bruce Rivers: … there was, um, uh, gunshot residue on her left hand.
  — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 26 Oct. 2024
• But uh, something weird is going on with a whole lot of them.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
• But, uh, the corny lyric references are our job, girly.
  — Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
• The two Kennedy children, uh, both have birthday's next week.
  — Bob Schieffer, CBS News, 26 Oct. 2017
• Like a Microplane, uh, a paring knife, stuff like that.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Oct. 2023
• Then the whole gang had a catered buffet with a s'mores bar, charcuterie board, and, uh, a harpist!
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 30 Nov. 2022
• The idea of carrying around a bloody used pad is, uh, a little strange.
  — Medea Giordano, WIRED, 27 Sep. 2022
• Back from a, uh, trip with high school students and it was called Distaval.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2024
• And there was a uh, Funko Pop figure leak that named her as Death (and Billy, too).
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
• But, uh, remember: these guys just took a bunch of drugs.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 3 June 2022
• Texas A&M has come a long ways from, uh, nearly losing to Vandy.
  — Hannah Underwood, Dallas News, 1 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 5 Jan 2025