Sentence examples for HUM from inspiring English sources
verb
To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed.
- We are humming happily along with the music.
In hip-hop and R&B, black bodies have been naked and gyrating for a very long time, accompanied all the while by only a low level hum of concern in the mainstream media.
Websites and social media hum with Russian propaganda, conspiracy theories and paranoia.
It was minor flooding, kind of ho hum," he said.
Retrograde, the new album's central song, begins with a snaking, muffled hum.
I'm not sure I could hum it".
Anywhere you go in the centre, the familiar whining and clattering from the tram echoes throughout the streets, becoming part of a hum that is distinctly Budapest.
More than a year after the mayor's departure, the construction fever that gripped Datong has fallen to a hum, with progress ticking along at "a drastically slower pace", locals say.
Bradley Cooper (usually a smart and talented actor) was, frankly, not particularly well cast or well directed in this ho-hum picture and the idea of him getting a best actor nomination ahead of Oyelowo or Spall or Ralph Fiennes is pretty silly.
So new evidence that staff in his office vindictively schemed to snarl traffic in a rival's district has something of a ho-hum quality.
"Besides", says one high-ranking elf, "he throws great parties".Santa's quirky management style, combining large quantities of mulled wine with a tight grip on the reins, has turned the ho-hum into the ho-ho-ho.
And cynics point out that some equity hedge funds have delivered ho-hum profits ever since authorities have clamped down on insider trading.
