Hummed
[hʌmd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Hum
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Examples
- I asked him when I had hummed it quietly all through. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And then she threw her work away, and threw her book after it, and sat down and hummed a tune, and hummed it out of tune, and quarrelled with it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Madame Defarge poured it out for him, took to her knitting again, and hummed a little song over it. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The reddleman hummed a tune. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The town in its pristine prime was a great lumber centre, and hummed with the industry of numerous sawmills. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Bella hummed the Dead March in Saul, and said, after all it signified very little! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- A thousand spindles whirled where one hummed before. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Margaret and Mr. Lennox strolled along the little terrace-walk under the south wall, where the bees still hummed and worked busily in their hives. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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