hummed

Example Sentences

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Because you sang the song That someone wrote—or Hummed it, even, not remembering The words, but feeling the feeling of it.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019

Hummed so that girls in his apartment building sometimes put their babies up on top of the machines and let the vibrations lull them into sleep.

From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin

Then, swift whisperings Along reverberant walls of gossips' ears Hummed loud and louder a love for Ruth.

From Rose and Roof-Tree — Poems by Lathrop, George Parsons

Day by day the wild breeze flying, With'ring in its scorching heat, Hummed a tune to labored beating Of the plodding horses' feet.

From Nancy MacIntyre by Parker, Lester Shepard

Thence summoned, sped I with a tireless foot,— Hummed on the wind, instead of wings, the fold Of this mine aegis, by my feet propelled, As, linked to mettled horses, speeds a car.

From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)