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How to use hawed in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word hawed? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
After my son hemmed and hawed awhile, my grandson finally spoke up in disgust.
He hemmed and hawed, but I eventually got him to call the other dealership.
The leap in price was daunting, and we hemmed and hawed for a year before saying okay, let's buy.
What I feared was wrong with her was amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, but I hemmed and hawed and told her that we needed to run some tests.
Sounding indecisive, Whitman hemmed and hawed about the different kinds of negative ads.
According to the complaint, when the actress questioned Starr, he hemmed and hawed.
They hummed and hawed as if this European educational area did not yet exist.
The EU has procrastinated and hummed and hawed.
They, after all, had the votes before the death of Ted Kennedy to push all these measures through the Senate, but instead hummed and hawed until it was too late.
True to their recent form, the Liberals hummed and hawed, deliberated and split hairs until no one in this House or anywhere in Canada understood anything anymore about their confusing and shifting position.
Osteen never hemmed or hawed, or pushed too far.
It is leaving much of the job to state governors, meaning the results will be patchy at best. For months, officials have hummed and hawed over how to honour Mr Peña's campaign pledge to create a new federal gendarmerie.
We hummed and hawed before finally deciding to buy this house.
Examples from Classical Literature
He hemmed and hawed, and finally had to blurt out that he didn't own the place.
He stuttered, and hemmed and hawed, until I shouted a real message into his ear.
The stranger hummed and hawed and pulled his long beard while he thought.
He walked up and down, hummed and hawed, showed every sign of impatience.
I hemmed and hawed and bowed to her back with a growing confusion.
She hummed and hawed and would not say a word about the borough.
The storekeeper hemmed and hawed and finally said five dollars in gold.
The Dragon was much annoyed, and hummed and hawed a good deal, and asked the second, 'But what shall be your spoon?
I suppose, to be sure, if anybody had asked him, plump and fair, whether they had human immortal souls, he might have hemmed and hawed, and said yes.
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