The word 'thrum' is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used as a verb meaning to vibrate, hum or buzz with a deep sound. Example sentence: The full stadium of excited fans thrummed with energy.
Ours overlooked the lower slopes of the Festkogl, which rises to a staggering 3,038 metres behind the village; mornings began with the low thrum of snow ploughs making their way up the mountain.
On a muggy, absorbing, oddly processional night Barcelona reached their eighth European Cup final with their first win in Munich, cruising past the champions of Germany without ever really having to thrum up through the gears.
A lot of his friends turned right around and left the dancefloor, baffled by the downtempo thrum and thump of a Digital Mystikz tune.
Coming on to a pitch-shifted version of Elton John's Can You Feel the Love Tonight?, Tame Impala open with two songs which encapsulate psychedelia's little-boy-lost strain – It's Not Meant to Be and Why Don't They Talk to Me, the latter song beefed up with a motorik thrum.
When needed, he could thrum a tamboura for "Within You Without You" or plump out the chorus for "Yellow Submarine", but he never dined out on it.
Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukFAR from the thrum and bustle of Manhattan, across a bridge (but at an unbridgeable distance), is Sunnyside Gardens.
The whole event, which runs until April 9th, is intended to drum up excitement for a cultural festival linked to this summer's London Olympics, designed to lure visitors from across the world.But English visitors can feel a special thrum of patriotic pride.
Beneath the museum is Williams College's department of art history; even on this early morning there's a quiet thrum of industriousness from the professors and students underfoot.
Milking machines in a spotless parlour thrum away as they pump liquid protein into the very heart of the Jewish settlement of Palestine".
Against a rising thrum from the narrow streets of the red-light district below, Mr Holbrooke asked: "What is the crisis of Pakistan?"Well might he ask.
In a pinch, a good sense of humour and a confident smile go a long way.Back to top >>ThursdayTHE most common sound in Lagos is the steady thrum of diesel-powered generators, both the small $200 residential variety sold by the side of the road, and the huge versions used by banks, hotels and restaurants.
