hummed
Example Sentences
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On a rainy Thursday afternoon in November, the Collaboratory hummed with volunteers packing donated home goods.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025
Her phone was kept on silent; electro-beats hummed in the background; digestive biscuits were devoured.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025
The fountain hummed beside him while students streamed past the gate—laughing, scrolling, carrying coffee, stubbornly keeping going.
From Slate • Oct. 30, 2025
Even when the scoreboard hummed to life in the second half, it still didn’t look like an instant classic was in store.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 28, 2025
The forest was quiet in here, like a room so full of small voices it hummed with silence.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
