Sentence examples for of a humming from inspiring English sources

They're the digital natives, fresh-minted citizens of a humming online world.

A different application of this principle is encountered in South Asia, where a pair of short wooden mirliton "trumpets" are placed against the throat of a humming performer.

Maine, along with many other states, puts a general limit on nighttime noise at 45 decibels -- roughly equivalent to the sound of a humming refrigerator.

While the sound effects here (by Sarah Pickett) include drumbeats, thunder, tolling bells and horrified screams, you're always aware of a humming silence beneath.

To think that someday my children, or my children's children, may trade these experiences for a quick download in front of a humming computer monitor is just depressing.

After an intermission and the installation of a humming smoke machine at the rear of the stage, Mr. Corea's Elektric Band walked on.

A tune is related to a humming of it as type is to token.

He descends into a bit of a hum and a haw, fiddles with his apple juice.

For example, residents of Bristol in the west of England recently complained of a "hum", which followed reports of a similar sound in the city in the 1970s.

Anywhere you go in the centre, the familiar whining and clattering from the tram echoes throughout the streets, becoming part of a hum that is distinctly Budapest.

As the encounter goes through its faltering paces, matching the pained rhythms of Cate's stuttering speech, we are made subliminally aware of a bigger world outside, of a hum of crowds and traffic and a glow of tainted light.