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
• Chelsea: uh, like the trees are greener and the skies are blue.
  — Outside Online, 13 Aug. 2025
• 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
• The proof is in the, uh, putting of this here: Subscribers can take a peek at the answer key.
  — Sam Corbin, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
• 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
• But dude, it is stocked to the gills with, uh, pun intended.
  — Outside Online, 30 July 2025
• 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
• What’s gone wrong, and how can the Dodgers, uh, deshambleize?
  — Peter O’Malley, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2025
• 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
• So that's me, uh, playing the flute with Marthe, uh, and with, uh, the piano and my sisters.
  — Lorena Galliot, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2025
• But sometimes things that start in the shallow end move deeper in the, uh, pool of love?
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 28 Oct. 2022
• And he suddenly got smacked in the head with an ice pick, or, uh, rather, a great idea!
  — The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
• But, uh-oh, the boss isn’t pleased with our performance.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2022
• Get ready for Stranger Things, uh, things on the gaming platform.
  — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 16 July 2025
• And Michael Hodges is musically inclined and, uh, a savant in many ways.
  — Craig Lindsey, Houston Chronicle, 8 Jan. 2026
• So guess who decided to, uh, retire from the SJC in 2024.
  — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 7 Jan. 2026
• But with the short vowels (bit or bet), the uh goes after the original vowel.
  — Annie Joy Williams, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2026
• It kind of like, uh, high school esque cool kids at the cool kids table, and then there's the kids left out on the exterior.
  — Outside Online, 31 Dec. 2025
• Selfishness, suicide, and Scrabble are fair game before all becomes calm and, uh, not so bright.
  — Huntley Woods, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Dec. 2025
• There are a lot of them seen in the trailer acting, uh, spooky.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 17 Dec. 2025