Sentence examples for hum of the engine from inspiring English sources

Not even the hum of the engine is audible.

Jana shuts the door, missing the insulating hum of the engine, and says nothing.

There is no music, just the hum of the engine and the whoosh of passing traffic, and blessings of back story are only stingily doled out.

"Once we hit the open road, I sat back, listening to the hum of the engine as the speedometer settled at 120 kilometres per hour".

Only the 100 hum of the engine droning on and on.

And the picture doesn't spare this feeling on the viewer as the continual purr and hum of the engine places you at one with the car -- a oneness that has become the character's very identities.

Gen. Lloyd Austin, the commanding general for Iraq, walked through the rows of vehicles, talking to soldiers over the low hum of the engines.

My cabin is next to the ship's dining room and more than a few times the metallic crash of pots, pans and cutlery hitting the floor has pierced through the bass-heavy background hum of the engines.

For those seated nearby who believed they had caught a glimpse of a noisy future, it was thankfully brief — and my exchange with my wife quickly yielded to the hum of the engines, the buzzing of audio headsets and the clatter of keyboards.

"It's called the last frontier, but it's a zoo," he said above the humming of the engines.

On the ferry ride approach, the soothing lapping of the inland waters and the quiet hum of the boat engine was punctuated by the repeated shutter clicks of digital cameras and a loudspeaker commentary in Norwegian, English, German and French (I can now say, "This fruit farm was abandoned in the 1960s" in three languages other than my own).