Example sentences for: hum

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

  • The picture printed, the racket is suddenly replaced by the striking sounds of calm--the low hum of the grandfather's voice, punctuated by the ticktock of the grandfather clock.

  • In come the battle droids and out come the light sabers, which still hum like faulty fluorescents.

  • 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.

  • 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.”

  • I noted the references to tweeter and boomer or wow and hum in Harry Cohen's article, “Jingo Lingo” [XVI,4].


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