Example sentences for: humming

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

  • [Ginsburg heads toward door, humming "I Got the World on a String."

  • This hiss, the noise level in her voice, like Glenn Gould's humming as he played the piano or the squeaking of Andrés Segovia's fingers on the strings of his guitar, makes her unusual today, when most singers are trained in the discipline of steely perfection and when our ears have become accustomed to the sharp-edged sounds of a compact disc, surrounded by undiluted digital silence.

  • Village contests judge competitors on their most spectacular flying skills — height, dexterity, and the humming sound produced by the wind through the kite-head.

  • 4 says, "In the Presence of Others Sing not to yourself with a humming Noise, nor Drum with your Fingers or Feet."

  • Also, a review marks the 10 th anniversary of Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities , noting its undue pessimism: "After all, the economic boom of the 1980s is still humming in the '90s; New York itself is a vastly cleaner, safer place than the city Wolfe described.


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