humming

Example Sentences

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“It was so melodious, and I found it different from the music I heard before,” said the 59-year-old retired accountant in Shanghai, who sometimes finds herself humming it randomly.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

The costs of those inputs, which keep the AI engine humming, keep rising.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

Inside a small lab tucked away in the National Botanical Gardens of Wales in Carmarthenshire, humming freezers full of labelled silver packets are the last line of defence to save wild species from extinction.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

That context starts with archival footage of French-colonized Algeria in the 1930s, the visuals speaking to both a humming aura of activity and the reality of who’s indigenous and who’s not.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

Instead of the humming motors of cars driving on the pavement outside his bedroom window, he heard the sigh of the midnight breeze and the chorus of chirping crickets.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young