Example sentences for: hum

How can you use “hum” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Put money in ordinary people's pockets, and as they spend it the assembly lines will hum and unemployment will fall.

  • I wish that the Pawtucket scenes hadn't been shot on a special film stock--they're bleached a toilet bowl blue--but they still have a powerful comic hum.

  • This aspect of language should not be construed solely as a demonstration of knowledge (as in knowing how many symphonies Beethoven wrote, whether Caruso was a tenor or a bass, or being able to hum melodies from Puccini's operas), though that is certainly a reflex of a cultured individual.

  • Control features designed for grid alignment, spiked controls and ALU controls ("AFFX", "hum_alu") were removed.

  • The small trail-side shrines in the high mountains, called chortens, are also Buddhist, and often surrounded by stones carved with the Om mani padme hum incantation —  “Hail, jewel in the flower of the lotus.”


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