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Sentence Examples If sound were involved, that would be fast enough to produce a low-pitched hum. If you can't hum quietly, then mumble loudly these wallopy words under your breath. The whole medical section was silent for a moment save for the hum of equipment, then the background murmur started again. There was its corn market down the main street, with hum of chaffering over open sacks. Crickets hum their night song, trees sway to strong winds and an occasional thunderbolt lights up the dark sky. It is such a beautiful opera and I hum along and wish it would last a lot longer than it does. The train shifted and began moving, silent, except for the hum of the generators that kept the lights going. Within seconds, she'd fallen asleep, almost as if the hum of the coffee grinder had lulled her into dreamland. For example, I can hum large stretches of the Rhapsody without having to work at it, which for me means that it coheres. Tall, beautiful, fair, his appearance was greeted with a low hum of admiration and anxiety. His limbs were inanimate, leaving motion only to his prickly black hair dancing to the silent hum of the ocean. The monotonous hum of words out of the undertaker's mouth was slowly lulling my mind into some kind of stasis. No matter how tightly I cover my ears and hum into my pillow, it's too late to get the sound out of my head. Windsor and the surrounding towns hum with great places to eat, drink and be as merry as a monarch. A vehicle accident, no injuries, one trooper announced over the steady hum of the vending machines in the lobby. Most of the noise was from the Scottish man through the speakers, other than that there was a low hum of conversation. The sound of the hum of cars in the distance while I sit here is testimony to that. It is after curfew, and only the low hum of the engines and occasional animal squeal can be heard. We did a very extensive mapping of the different primary frequencies of the hum and then its harmonics. You've just connected your system and there's a buzz or hum that won't go away. Show More Sentences The longer you hum and haw, the more time you'll spend away from your post. But when I ask his closest advisers whether the Prime Minister has been persuaded of this, they hum and haw. After the 6 month period is up, we hum and haw about whether or not we really want to hire the person so we get extended for another 6 months. Trucks and cars swoosh past us occasionally, otherwise we are cocooned in the subliminal hum of the forest. They kept riding, the clop of the hooves and hum of the city giving her a safer feeling. The front part of the house buzzed and bombilated with them, and a constant hum came from the rear. There is a metallic hum as the glass barrier moves, sliding into the floor, and the metal bars in the portal retract up. Metal decking grids rang under his feet when he stepped from the lift, drowning the hum as the door closed. Never your intention to harm them, you hum immaterial music, half-recalled snatches underneath your breath. It was the air-con going off that disturbed my slumber once that soporific hum stopped. A mechanical hum vibrates distantly, though I can only really hear it through my feet. The hum of these newfangled doodads drowns out any conversation in the house. For the waterfall fan there was a six-foot dribble, and a good walk finished in dappled sunlight and the hum of large hoverflies. The only sounds were the occasional flip of the security guards newspaper pages and the incessant hum of the fluorescent strip light above us. Tiredly, she sat up and rubbed her eyes, listening to the steady hum of the air conditioner and the buzz of a fly in the window. The low hum of air conditioning and the buzz of machines unswitched off is always with you, like tinnitus. During flight, hummingbirds sometimes flap their wings so rapidly that it causes the hum which gave the birds their name. Ten minutes from the ground and you could already feel the unmistakable hum of a huge gaggle of excited people gathered together. To tell you the truth if you asked me right now to hum it, I couldn't because it is totally unmemorable and forgettable. Dr. Zamia pulled a lever with a red handle, and the hum evolved into a loud roar. Show More Sentences I imagined the background hum of voices was the sound of unpublished authors begging at her feet. There's a lively and sociable hum to the bar right up until last orders at 1am. Engines began to hum deep in the belly of the ship, but Boertousce's grin only widened, the lips peeling back as if mocking his efforts. By her second lap around the interstate beltway the hum of the engine from Jennifer's MG roadster began to drown out her anger and frustration. The lake was a peaceful sight, with a few reeds along the edge, and the soft hum of cicadas around it. As the waiting room door closed behind him, another door opened in front of him, with a familiar electronic hum and a nimbus of blue-white light. The engine began to hum and the metal supports moved the shuttle ninety degrees to the vertical. Naaz Hosseini's voice slips from a serene hum to a full-throated wail to a sweet high-pitched lilt, flavored by her roots in Armenia and Persia. I quickly left the midges behind but they were not about to give up and descending into Tarsaughaun, I could hear the hum at fifty yards. So an office at that end of the building is a definite no-no as the droning hum could drive me mad. Rich foliage, soft lighting and the quiet hum of the other diners' conversations create a welcoming ambience. He struck his six-iron well enough and cocked his ear to pick up the hum of appreciation at the other end. Next Year's NBA will hum with full-court presses, dead-eye jump-shooting, and endless fast-breaking. The gem's usual glow and hum was dead, and it looked to be nothing more than a piece of old, tasteless, gaudy jewelry. Shivering, I started to hum the song my mother used to sing to me, tears pricking my eyes. He listens to the oxygen machines hum and burble and gasp, the humidifier wheeze, the buzz of the fluorescent light in the hall. If you're getting a high-pitched whine rather than a hum your hard drive may be the culprit. Not only is his music fascinating with its buzz and upbeat hum, sprinkling of Afrofuturism, but his ideas are too. I looked at the receiver when I pulled it away from my ear, then slammed it down on the body causing it to vibrate with a low-pitched hum. She leaned against one of the white cherry blossom trees and began to hum to herself. Show More Sentences The constant hum of the recitation may have been intended in part to induce a liminal state that was not entirely conscious. And in Diepkloof, in the midst of the continuous buzz and hum of the crowds, is a small, quiet spot. It makes for a strangely moving scene, despite or because of the hum of the nearby freeways. It was spanned by a hump-back bridge leading to a jungle path alive with the orchestrated hum of insects. Footsteps receded down the corridor and melted into the low hum of talk from the banquet. The only sounds at ten in the morning are the hum of the automatic milking machine and the patter of rain on tin roofing. The low, hypnotic hum created by the amplification of sound waves as they traveled through water reverberated throughout the dark tank. You could hear the whirr and hum of political calculation, the internal hedging of bets. There's a constant background hum of machinery, the sound of switches being flicked and the astronauts around you going about their routines. Apart from the hum of gnats and mosquitoes and the low rustle of the creek, the scene is silent. Like its counterpart on the other side of the platter, this audio track is very weak and also seems to have a subtle hum in the background. The hum of high-powered machinery enveloped him instantly, the throb of massive generators pulsing through the room. It settles to a hum at idle, but then just zings straight up to the redline with turbine-like smoothness. The gentle hum of the shower slowly vibrated the particles from her body where they were absorbed by the thin mist forming near her feet. At night the only sounds you might hear are the slap of ripples against the piers and the white noise hum of surf on the distant reef. She begins to hum the tune of the music, weeping, as the Artist strides away. Justy punched a button beside the lift and they heard a light hum as the carriage descended to their level. He despised the dull monotone hum of life in the small town of Spring Valley, now at least a few miles behind him. A click, a pause and the monotonous hum of the dialtone left me feeling weary and drained. The only sound to be heard was the monotonous hum of the engine as the car continued its trek down the long quiet street. Show More Sentences They flew in silence for a long time after that, nothing but the hum of their engines disrupting the silence. The hum of chattering voices floated through the still air, accompanied by the faint strains of music. The hum of the cicadas was softening to a barely audible moan. By the end of the track, only the higher frequencies remain, creating a delicate ringing like the insectile hum of rubbing a finger around the inside of a wet glass. A sensitive microphone placed close to the eardrum typically records a faint hum, but in many human subjects clear whistles can be picked up on top of the background buzz. It means he can hum a popular melody in the tune of other songs. When very young, the cubs cry when afraid and hum when contented. There was a pause between Acts 1 and 2, and a rather high number of latecomers were admitted, resulting in much shuffling, and a general hum of conversation. The sounds of many people talking becomes white noise, an everpresent hum. Every window on our street is wide open, and the air is thrumming with the rotating hum of a hundred desktop fans, sluggishly pushing the warm air from room to room. A continuous background hum of machines and the soft voices of nurses was punctuated occasionally by the shrill of a telephone, or shoes padding across the lino floor. The hum from the hive rises threateningly when it is disturbed. He could hear the low hum of voices and the occasional coarse laugh. From the site, one can hear the hum of traffic and see cars passing on the street. The second is a dirty buzz carved from the crude hum of electric motors as amplified by dirty magnetic coils and pockmarked by amorphous rattles and disembodied thuds. The streets hum with diners and daters, excited by the pleasant weather. Blair stood frozen like that, listening to the echoes of his footsteps and the hum of his car engine reverberating in her ears as they faded into the night. Londoners under attack would come to know it as the doodlebug or buzz bomb, so called for the mechanical hum it made before dropping on its target. The hum intermittently erupted into hypnotic chanting as the camera edged along the line-up, each player seeming to get younger and smaller all the while. Because they're high power, interference and hum are very small by comparison, so the wires can be unshielded, and triboelectricity is not a problem. Show More Sentences Wildflowers spread their sweet heady perfume along the gentle breezes and bees hum musically to themselves as they cheerily collect flower pollen. Out of the silence came a low hum that started soft and grew in volume until it filled everything around it, a pulsating beat that drummed with a steady rhythm. With a soft hum of power the large rotors started up and the officers were off, soaring up to investigate the powerless upper levels of the massive city. The only sound was the low hum of the lights, everything was quiet. Even now, you only have to hum a bar or two of its chorus, and pretty soon everyone around you will be humming or whistling, or singing along under their breath. I heard the ensuing howl of pain over the hum and rattle of the printer. There was no far-off hum of constant traffic, no train whistles or car horns, and certainly no distant streams of moving lights from the nearest highway. This highly evocative work had a real African feel, conjuring up the jungle sounds of insects and birds on the flute with a tropical hum from the violin, viola and cello. Close your eyes, stick your fingers in your ears and hum loudly. A hum was heard from the machine as it powered up to do the task it was asked to do, followed by a soft whirring sound, as it digested the bike's current condition. The pub was getting busier yet and I could feel the steady hum around me. The steady hum of conversation flowed from inside of the cabin. There's a low hum of conversation, a genteel clink of polished silver on old china, waiters in tails exuding an air of quiet efficiency and old-fashioned servility. The robot smoothly activated, lights gradually blinking on, the rising hum of servomotors spinning up to speed, relays switching to new configurations. A steady hum of voices rises from the crowd sitting on the floor. The steady hum of the city had all but evaporated in the night. Move around while listening and the hum changes to a low, soothing throb or at particularly resonant points in the room, vibrates your skull rather unpleasantly. The steady hum grew louder, and the lights in the theatre turned on. There were wounded who groaned in their sleep or called out, and there was the soft, steady hum of conversation among the wounded who could not sleep. Only the hum of the miserable creatures stirred the heavy murk that beaded our foreheads with sweat as we pushed our way through it. Show More Sentences During nighttime, giraffes appear to hum to each other above the infrasound range for purposes which are unclear. Pitrodie's woods beskirt the feet Of heath-clad Ben-na-chie, And through their shade the breezes fleet, And hum from tree to tree. The buz of flies has been found no less difficult to explain than the hum of bees. His New York accent slices through the incessant hum of voices. Frail smoke of morning in the air and a sort of muffled hum that is not sound but is not silence either. There was no shelling this time, but there was the hum of watchful drones. Just smile, hum a tune, count backwards from a thousand repeatedly. Rustlings and cheepings came to him across that still, moonlit yard. A concourse of living beings sent the hum of their activity into the night. They could hear a hum coming from the kitchen, and found the dishwasher on. Many, therefore, who did not assent to all that the King had said, joined in a loud hum of approbation when he concluded. There was an elated hum in the room, but the guests restrained themselves. They will often hum to each other as a form of communication. For many of us, the ear-piercing whine of the male dog-day cicada, often wrongly identified as the hum of electric transmission wires, defines late summer. The equaliser silenced the Syrian fans, who outnumbered and outsung their Saudi counterparts, maintaining the hum of a traditional Arabian chant throughout the match. It is midday and the only sound is the plink of ice in glasses and the hum of conversation as everyone cranks up their taste buds for the most relaxed meal of the week. Turn them on, and they blink, flicker, strobe, hum, plink, buzz, and occasionally go bang. But this is not where the effects have ceased their incursive influence on the lives of those exposed to HUM events. On the night of February 13, 1922, Hum Mon Sen was shot in front of his herb shop in China Alley by a highbinder who witnesses said wore a beaver cowboy hat. Chinese names are not fair game, and no self-respecting comiconomenclaturist would include in his collection a Ho Hum, a T. Hee, or a Jim Shoo. As well as Wirral's adventures in Tropic Island Hum,it features the Bafta award-winningRupert and The Frog Song and Tuesday, a surreal story of an invasion of flying frogs. Examples from Classical Literature In the buzz and hum of its flywheel, Perry got a damp and unenthusiastic handshake. He heard the hum and clang of an electric car off through a chestnut grove. And if you catch her chewing gum, or flirting with a rah-rah chum, then take a strap and make things hum, Wilhelmina! In the hall a string orchestra was discoursing soft music and the place was filled with the hum of conversation and low laughter. I's tooked 'em hum a haaf a bob every night for t' week, and they b'longs to me. Effervescent citrus and biodiesel fumes, moist vegetation and the hum of lazy high noon bugs. For instance, he never likes to hear a player hum a tune on the bench, because he thinks it will keep him from getting a base hit. The band had stopped, and there was the distant hum of voices and the crackle of plates. These disharmonic shadows flitting in the room made a stir like the rubbing of dry straw or the hum of bees among clover stalks. Will the hum of trade and industry be hushed in her streets, and be superceded by the fluttering of bats and the hootings of owls? Here be oak trees, and here the galingale, and sweetly here hum the bees about the hives. That hum of wings is the Calicurgus' paean of triumph, until it be her death-song. We could distinctly hear the reveille of the rebel troops, and the hum of their camps. The web-toed Russian-Finn looked as if the hum of the mosquito would be a welcome lullaby to the land of dreams. The plow was left in the furrow, and the hum of the machine shop was not heard. The hum of the cicala, the whirr of the darting dragon-fly, the call of the bright-green tree-frog sounded in his ear. The churring of the night-hawks was continuous, soothing as the hum of a spinning-wheel. The master, throned on high in his great splint-bottom arm-chair, was dozing, lulled by the drowsy hum of study. The hum of industrialism was plainly audible to the two fugitives. High and low, the innumerous hum of insects vibrated on the air. Show More Sentences Save for the hum of the gnats and the chirp of some small insects that hopped among the thorns, the air was absolutely still. They felt his magnetism, like the hum when you pass a power station. The church, filled with friends and relations, echoed with the roll of carriages, and the hum of beadles, sextons, and priests. He was on the brudge wuth me, an' I told hum tull take a look tull the wedges o' number one hatch. I've found a hum for 'e, and a reet good 'un, an' ye'r to go to-night. The air was full of the throb and hum of machinery pumping air down the shaft. That there tracer started to hum again soon after you was out for a while. On that third of March, all the rooms in the English Club were filled with a hum of conversation, like the hum of bees swarming in springtime. From behind this door came the sound of crockery and the hum of voices. My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects. The hum of buzzing insects seemed to intensify the summer heat. The droning hum of the helicopter came across the broken ground. Amid the hum of conversation interrupted by cries of Frisch wasser! A steady low hum will be heard when the generator is in operation. There was no answer, only the rhythmic hum of the levitators. The Sunday landscape was very still, save for the hum of busy insect life. The party moved along the hall, the twins in advance, and entered the open parlor door, whence issued a low hum of conversation. You may figure to yourself the hum of voices along the road in the gloaming. Trilling it out like a kind of bird, with a pretty high note, that it may be audible to the old lady above the hum of the wheels. He would hum over his old rigadig tunes while flank and flank with the most exasperated monster. Show More Sentences He clasped his hands behind his head, and looking up at the ceiling began to hum a little, trying his voice like a musician tuning an instrument. Let him reflect now, and when your blinding dust and deafening hum subside, he will discover a path. The latter usually hum the airs while they are being sung, so that their neighbors may perceive that they have been to operas before. We're listening now for the hum of the trolleys almost any day. The hum of a vibration would have been audible at those two points. A loud purr, like the singing of a tea-kettle or the hum of a spinning-wheel, testified that she was as comfortable and happy as a cat could be. Mr Brass would then set the office-door wide open, hum his old tune with great gaiety of heart, and smile seraphically as before. Give him a ham sandwich if he promises not to hum that horrible tune ever again. The roar of the alternator died down, first to a hum and then to a purr. The sound of rushing water ascended on the windless air, and there was a hum of mountain bees. Suddenly there was a hum and a stir and a buzz of whispering in the room. You hear the hum of human bees, they smell the honey of dada's quatrains. I tell you your party is rotten and filled with grafters, and instead of flying into a rage you hum and haw and admit there is a great deal in what I say. They are committing themselves to a misleading survival handbook while glozing over their folly not with talk of evolution but with the comforting hum of the Machine. Yet, late as it now was, there still arose a pleasant hum out of one or two of the squash-blossoms, in the depths ofwich these bees were plying their golden labor. There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air. The uprising tiers of seats filled early, upon this summer morning, and the merry chatter of the people went abroad like the hum of bees in a hive. The city's hum and buzz, the clinking of capstans, the ringing of bells, the barking of dogs, the clattering of wheels, tingled in the listening ear. From hand to hand, the buckets went in the deepest silence, only broken by the occasional flap of a sail, and the steady hum of the unceasingly advancing keel. Schneider's father would bring the instrument out from time to time, most often on summer nights around the campfire on Lake Huron, to strum and hum the songs he knew. Show More Sentences I was thanking my stars that I'd learned to make nice buttonholes, when the parlor door opened and shut, and someone began to hum, Kennst Du Das Land, like a big bumblebee. The air was calm, full of the eternal hum of insects, a tropical chorus of many octaves, from the deep drone of the bee to the high, keen pipe of the mosquito. According to sources the Chairman NAB Adm Fasih Bukhari had sent the said summary to PM on January 20, 2012, but the PM eventually shot it down even after a long hum and haw. A buzz and hum go up around me, as if the boys were so many bluebottles. Cheyne sat down and read the dial for her, but the seventy-foot car never changed its long, steamer-like roll, moving through the heat with the hum of a giant bee. The Cruisin' Motion Soother mimics the movements and sounds of a car journey, including going over bumps, turning corners and even the gentle hum of the engine. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of hum? Words that rhyme with hum What is the past tense of hum? What is the plural of hum? What is the adverb for hum? What is the adjective for hum? What is the noun for hum? Translations for hum Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words hulver Hult Hulme hulls hulling hull house Hum human Human human being human beings human capital 3-letter Words Starting With h hu