Example sentences for: hum

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

  • Just below the happy nature's-bounty song promoted by REI lies the low hum of outdoor culture's ugliest trait, a possessive paranoia that keeps outsiders out and insiders in.

  • I had expected to find tweeter followed by woofer and wow followed by flutter . I have no dictionary that records boomer as an audio electronics term but two that record woofer . I suspect that hum is used by those of us who can't tell wow from flutter .

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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