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

Ah! then all the tiny raindrops Hummed a merry glad refrain, And the old folks cried: "How pleasant Is the music of the rain!"

From Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper and Other Stories by Anonymous

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

So drugged with sleep and dreams, that you Expect to see her gliding by,— Hummed round of bees, through blossoms spilling dew,— The Spirit of July.

From Undertones by Cawein, Madison J.