Sentence examples for distant hum from inspiring English sources
A distant hum of ducts, vents, and subway noise intruded.
But, apart from the distant hum of a tractor, the town is silent and the streets are almost empty.
Occasionally I heard some children playing on the lawn outside, their shouts and laughter rose up above the even, distant hum of the city.
There were, to be sure, occasional reminders of civilization -- the distant hum of car traffic or the ungainly presence of high-tension wires.
At first "Swelter" was a subdued collection of sustained sounds coming from surrounding enclaves of brass players on the edges of the lake: a distant hum of mellow tones that piled up to form quivering chords.
That distant hum you hear is the sound of a dozen reel-to-reel machines editing five years of Laker highlights, lowlights and punch lines to fill the TNT broadcast.
Hear that faint distant humming sound, like a billion buzzing bees?
And then suddenly, there on the horizon, was a light; a distant, humming white glow.
It's more like we're all going to be ducking under the near-distant hum of electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles, or eVTOLs (really rolls off the tongue), sooner than later.
Listen closely, and it is possible to detect what Dickens described in Bleak House as "a distant ringing hum, as if the city were a vast glass, vibrating".
To be an American civilian, then, is to have war as a distant background hum, a known reality that's scarcely accessible and always shrouded in mystifying propaganda and unclear motives.
