Word Finder - hummed

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To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed.

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We are humming happily along with the music.

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To express by humming.

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The team ominously hummed “We shall overcome” as they came back onto the field after the break.

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To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly

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To buzz, be busily active like a beehive

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The streets were humming with activity.

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To produce low sounds which blend continuously

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To reek, smell bad.

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This room really hums — have you ever tried spring cleaning, mate?

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To flatter by approving; to cajole; to deceive or impose upon; to humbug.

The air hummed the closer they got.

The air around him hummed with energy and command.

Jackson pinched her cheek and hummed, "Apparently your happiness is more important to him than his own."

She moved in rhythm with the music, brushing the floor softly as she hummed along.

Bubbling with happiness, she hummed as she strode through the corridors in search of Romas.

The sub's motor hummed quietly and the pilot guided it deftly.

Once in a while we sat together on the pond, he at one end of the boat, and I at the other; but not many words passed between us, for he had grown deaf in his later years, but he occasionally hummed a psalm, which harmonized well enough with my philosophy.

It hummed with electronics.

He hummed, a feeling of mild accomplishment sandwiched between the failure to contact Martha and the trepidation of potentially being made a fool by Seymour "Fitz" Fitzgerald, sheriff candidate.

The barracks area was heavily guarded, but she was struck by the lack of activity in the part of the castle that normally hummed with life.

The translator hummed once more.

Magic hummed between them, and she began to realize he wasn't human, and he wasn't like her father.

Computers hummed, the sound enough to lull Lana to sleep nearly every shift she spent alone in the vault despite the sleep replacement supplements—known as anti-sleepers—she took.

It hummed with energy that spread through her, warming her.

The closer she stepped to Jule, the more her body hummed.

The compound hummed with activity, from the gardens that served as a helipad to the teeming barracks and Guardians pacing the halIs.

Computers hummed, the sound enough to lull Lana to sleep nearly every shift she spent alone in the vault despite the sleep replacement supplements—known as anti-sleepers—she took.

The adrenaline from the night still hummed in his blood., Blood had turned the waters maroon.

The spindles hummed steadily and ceaselessly on all sides.

Despite the cold, her blood hummed with warmth.

I hummed a tune I remembered my mother singing to me as I strolled to the barn to slay the lying witch-bitch who thought she'd tricked.

And yet, its little engine hummed along with a surprising lack of noise.

The strange energy hummed through her again, and she became aware of new sensations she'd never noticed with anyone else.

A window air conditioning unit hummed, and when he opened the door to the apartment, a surge of cool air invited them in.

They rolled past South Fork, and 20 miles later, Del Norte, where the lead cadre of bikers hummed their way toward Monte Vista, 14 miles further, and then the final 17 miles to Alamosa.