How to Use hum in a Sentence

hum

verb

• We hummed along to the music.
• I hummed a little song.
• The garden was humming with bees.
• The restaurant hums on weekends.
• I was humming to myself.
• The refrigerator hummed in the background.
• By noon, the office was really humming.
• The cicadas were humming and the trees were dancing to the rhythm of the wind.
  — Monique Brown, refinery29.com, 22 Mar. 2023
• The same issue applies to most of the game's ho-hum zombie cast.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2022
• The air hummed with birdsong, and with the bells of the mountain goats that forage in the highlands.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• Or, instead of lyrics, hum a portion of the tune for your team to guess.
  — Chloe Gorman, Country Living, 30 Nov. 2022
• What that means for the monorail is unclear, but the plan is to keep the line humming.
  — David Kroman, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2023
• The Celtics are a different team when Williams is humming at both ends of the court.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2023
• As the sun sets and the sky turns inky blue, the thick, shadowy forests start to hum with an ethereal glow.
  — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2022
• Momoa kept up with the girls, nailing every dance move and humming along to the song.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 27 Apr. 2023
• The songs were carried out of the theater with the viewer after the credits rolled, easy to hum or sing in one’s head.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2022
• Jensen’s sewing machine hummed in another part of the house.
  — Margret Grebowicz, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2023
• Of course part of the success rate is going to be down to the quality of your singing or humming.
  — David Nield, Popular Science, 31 Jan. 2024
• First, there were the Aeolian harps of ancient Greece, which sang and hummed using just the wind's breeze.
  — Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 12 May 2023
• The Wolves’ offense hummed — a welcome sign for a team that at times has struggled on that end of the floor this season.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 17 Jan. 2024
• Both blues hum against the turquoise of the bedspread, the touches of gold (guitar and trumpet) and red (drum and lips), and the dreamer’s black pants, skin and hair.
  — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2022
• Some wondered, wouldn’t the companies want to make a deal to get the dream machine humming again?
  — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• Find something truly unique to hum along to by browsing the HUM database at hum.slcpl.org.
  — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Dec. 2021
• At the same time, with the graphics maxed out, the game positively hummed along at about 70 frames per second.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 10 Feb. 2023
• Goats graze in the pastureland above, and bees hum in the apricot trees on the adjacent hillside.
  — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2023
• Williams is the rare composer that most Americans can name and hum a few bars.
  — Alex Galbraith, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2022
• As mechanic’s drills hummed in the background, Howie explained the virtues of paying one’s debts.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2023
• While recording a hook, Moore altered the tone of his voice to sound like a robot trying to hum the same progression as the synths.
  — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2022
• About 25 cooks and dishwashers are in the kitchen during each shift, and at 8 in the morning the space already hummed with the sound of staff members’ scrubbing down surfaces with soapy water.
  — Marcela Valdes. Photographs and Videos By Peden + Munk, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
• Its economy is humming, growing at a faster rate than the nation’s economy overall.
  — Ulrich Boser, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024