| Even though he had never even written a six-part fugue for keyboard, Bach immediately demurred. |
| Surely the Boat Race is too important an event to let commercial riff raff like ITV get their grubby mitts on it, she demurred. |
| When asked whom he would appoint to the Federal Reserve, Mr. Romney demurred. |
| I told her I should ask you to see her, and though she demurred at first, I know why, old fellow, she finally consented. |
| When the city worker demurred, the man grabbed him around the throat, prompting police intervention. |
| While others demurred, like Hamlet whingeingly soliloquising to be or not to be' at Elsinore, you had the path clearly marked out. |
