hummed

Example Sentences

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Restaurants hummed with more than half of their tables full, many taken up by people in the San Francisco work uniform: a button-down shirt and a puffer vest.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025

The internet hummed with commentary, memes, and close analysis of carat weight.

From Salon • Aug. 31, 2025

In one corner, an older woman closed her eyes as she sank into the automatic massage chair that hummed.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025

This conflict between New Deal progressives and anti-Roosevelt conservatives hummed on the edges of the 1930s and the war years of the early 1940s.

From Slate • Mar. 17, 2025

Gum Baby ignored me and hummed a few bars from the song she’d been making up.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia