hum
Example Sentences
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A kitchen manager keeps a careful eye on costs and resources, working in tandem with the chef to make sure the pantry hums efficiently.
From Salon
To keep Joule’s generators humming, an on-site service shop is being built by Wheeler Machinery, the independent Caterpillar dealer for Utah.
They pull 107 megawatts of power to keep their specialized computers humming so a global ledger can update itself every ten minutes for people who will never set foot in West Virginia.
From Salon
Multiple responses raised concerns about the new equipment’s noisy hum.
“B” words pop out, lending texture and body to the hum.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.