hum - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • emit: At low speed, the fan emits a barely audible hum.
  • hear: Likewise, we should have heard a vibrant hum of energy to highlight its alien power.

Object

  • bird: From humming bird to cactus Many flowers rely on insects for pollination, which fly from flower to flower, covered in pollen.
  • melody: The hills are humming a melody Soft to the ears, Like candyfloss.
  • song: MULDER starts humming the theme song to " I Dream of Jeannie.

Adjective modifier

  • faint: All is silent save for the faint hum of well inflated tires on the dry road.
  • loud: There was always a loud hum audible from the enormous transformer.
  • steady: Day after day there was a steady, quiet hum for the ninety minutes the teacher worked and the children played.
  • gentle: A sleepy village by all accounts, but with a gentle hum of activity.
  • constant: There is a constant hum coming from the hospital, where patients lie in the spanking new building attended 24 hours by medical staff.
  • slight: Best in a screened case but will work with slight hum in plastic sandwich box.

Modifying Another Word

  • softly: Next comes the quietly catchy Soleil Soleil, which hums softly with echoes of Air ' s Moon Safari.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • along: He started to conduct the audience to hum along.

Preposition: of

  • insect: There wasn't even the usual hum of insects or the chatter of birds.
  • conversation: A hum of conversation is heard from the adjoining room stage left.

Noun used with modifier

  • ho: At the time of the voting book 5 wasn't out or it would also have been here, ho hum.
  • padme: How does the number of times om mani padme hum is said affect one's life?

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