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Example sentences for: hum

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Thus, Joel Kotkin and others cheerily predict that a handful of "tribes"--the Chinese, the Indians, the Jews, and others--will make the global economy hum and whir.
In northern India, someone might say, Mai ap ko batati hum, he is a very reliable fellow , where the opening words are Hindi for I tell you.
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.
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.
I noted the references to tweeter and boomer or wow and hum in Harry Cohen's article, “Jingo Lingo” [XVI,4].