hummed

Example Sentences

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At the bustling centre, sewing machines hummed as women stitched blankets, while others stacked thin mattresses ready to be handed out.

From Barron's • May 25, 2026

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

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

He bent down and plucked a shell from the grass, then put the open end of the shell to his throat and hummed low and long.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce