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  • noun Plural form of hum.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hum.

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Examples

  • The sword hums as Vladimir Algol-Raphael leers down at me.

    A King of Infinite Space Steele, Allen 1997

  • When they heard this they kept on going up; not long after they heard the sighing of the wind and the humming of the trees bending back and forth; then they remembered the bird catcher's words, "If the wind hums, that is from the lizard."

    The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Martha Warren Beckwith 1915

  • And the way he kind of hums into the first line, you know, and throughout the song is so beautiful.

    Rosanne Cash Sails The 'Sea Of Heartbreak' 2009

  • In fact, I bet I am creating fodder on a daily basis for some future "hums," to be experienced ten or twenty years from now.

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  • Steller, the scientist, leans over the rail to listen if the huge sperm whale, there, "hums" as it

    Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward 1903

  • "bow-wow" - like style, full of "hums" and "hahs"; and the sort of good-tempered but unyielding banter with which he fobbed off an inconvenient enquiry, or repressed the simple-minded ardour of

    Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences George William Erskine Russell 1886

  • And of course Birthagaindom brings us back to Shakespeare, whose language so often hums with the concord of terms native and borrowed.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • And of course Birthagaindom brings us back to Shakespeare, whose language so often hums with the concord of terms native and borrowed.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • This is what we wipe our bums with, the advert hums: we're pliable, cheeky.

    Anatomy of a Breakdown DJ Young 2011

  • So when the global economy hums and the need for raw materials increases, the price to rent a ship rises.

    Three Hidden Market Signals Simon Constable 2011

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