Example sentences for: hums

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

  • Courtship song, for example, consists of a series of sinusoidal hums and trains of pulses that come from the male's wing vibrations.

  • His Mike McDermott begins by explaining, in a current of voice-over narration that hums through the movie, "If you can't spot the sucker in your first half-hour at the table then you are the sucker."

  • Into this category go Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune , who recently gave a rave to Armageddon ; his Sneak Previews buddy Roger Ebert (who calls The Negotiator "a thriller that really hums along"); David Ansen of Newsweek ; and Richard Schickel of Time . Even Janet Maslin of the New York Times , intelligent though she is, seems headed down this slope when she enthuses about Lethal Weapon 4 or prostrates herself before the latest Spielberg.

  • I did indeed say it "really hums along," in the second sentence of an opening paragraph which, if he had quoted it all, would have destroyed his point.

  • My fax machine fairly hums with offers of briefings from Cabinet ministers who can't quite believe their country is no longer the lead item on the White House daily briefing.


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