Sentence examples for except for the hum of from inspiring English sources

Except for the hum of traffic from the Cross Bronx Expressway, there was no sound.

The streets were empty except for the hum of many window air-conditioners.

Except for the hum of flies and the occasional call of a cinclodes, the silence at my campsite was absolute.

HAMBURG — Except for the hum of the elevator, there was hardly a sound in the intensive care unit of the University Medical Center of Hamburg-Eppendorf.

The weather was clear and cold; five hundred feet above the street, the rooftop was silent except for the hum of giant air-conditioning fans.

I steered Jane through the still darkness of Teterboro, grateful for the hum of her engine.

On the track, all was silent but for the the hum of electric motors and spinning wheels.

There was almost no sound at night except for the bombs, and the hum of a generator in a building close by.

For two days the soldiers monitored their radios and scanned the neighboring village — where a white Taliban flag flies from a radio tower, but when the first lights of the convoy finally spilled out onto the road, the night was quiet except for the steady hum of a helicopter flying above it.

We looked at one another, paused for a beat, and then began chanting: "LET THEM IN!" The terminal, silent except for the low hum of morning chatter, echoed with our shouts.

The intensive care ward was dark, lights dimmed for the night shift, and silent except for the occasional beep from a monitor and the hum of ventilators.