But a wheeze becomes a hum.
There's the noise of a click constantly ticking in the background as a low hum becomes a louder hum.
The bird conjured by Mr. Perkins and Mr. Tassey is barely four feet long and becomes an imperceptible, quietly humming little creature when it hovers overhead.
In this way, Donna's Diner has become a living thing, humming with the flow of the human condition, alternating between harried motion and fleeting rest.
I'll take you turf cutting with Heaney or onion eating with Swift... " The lad of the ceaseless hum becomes a major character in this novel from a young Northern Irish writer whose is now, perhaps, one of the most vital voices in current Irish literature.
As the light grows in intensity, and the electric hum becomes a thunderous roar, a sudden presence fills the vaulted corridors of the Brussels Atomium.
"The only constant noise is the power plant," one resident said, and that is a low hum that becomes a sort of soothing white noise.
Then we hear a low hum, which becomes a voice, and another, and another, music piercing the darkness, 20, 30 men and women together, filling Garama with song as in centuries past.
But if it is actually listened to, it becomes a sound that signifies potential, openness, a vast humming network, and I find it becomes poetic".
It became a joke, Conan humming "Here Comes the Bride" as I walked into the classroom trailer, sweaty and coated in wood-shop dust.
