Sentence examples for humming from inspiring English sources

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"humming" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it as a verb when describing a sound, such as a bee or a person humming a song. Example: She walked through the garden while humming a cheerful tune.

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humming

noun

The sound of something that hums; a hum.

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BBC Production, in contrast, is "humming along very nicely", and Bannister clearly relishes the vast sweep of the empire he now presides over as chief executive.

At Laura's Spice Farm we watched humming birds dart among the more recognisable sage, thyme, basil and aloe vera, but also the wonderfully named Jump Up and Kiss Me.

For the fattest real burrito, El Farolito a few doors down does one the size of a bolster (and we didn't even supersize it), humming with vibrant flavours, in a sticky oilclothed atmosphere that defines grungy.

At no point during those five hours did I have to change a nappy, or clomp around a hallway in my pants pointlessly humming lullaby fragments into a tiny black hole of noise and fury.

But of course you will gravitate to the beach, where the bars and watersports concessionaires stand shoulder to shoulder beneath the palms, humming by day and then heaving by night – particularly on Friday and Saturday.

An entire Google server farm, humming away monolithically in the middle of Idaho or wherever, processing an endless stream of increasingly fraught searches such as "How to wrap a newborn" and "How much baby diarrhoea is too much baby diarrhoea?" and "Seriously, I'll do anything, just tell me how to make him sleep".

The Oxfam bookshop on Marylebone High Street in London is humming this Monday morning, customers thronging the aisles, as Monica Ali and Bill Nighy serve behind the till and Joanna Trollope busily sorts and prices the literature section.

These days the Ambridge mill, bought by a Russian conglomerate five years ago, is humming away.

China's are now happily humming along at an average capacity utilisation of 88%.

And since the government's borrowing costs are currently low and the construction industry is still in the doldrums, investment in infrastructure is cheaper now than it will be when the economy is humming again.Mr Emanuel is convinced of all this.

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They also theorised that if curiosity, rather than empathy, was the driving force, then the humming would cause dogs to engage with people.As they report in Animal Cognition, "person-oriented behaviour" did sometimes take place when either the stranger or the owner hummed, but it was more than twice as likely to occur if someone was crying.

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