How to Use hum in a Sentence

hum

verb
  • We hummed along to the music.
  • I hummed a little song.
  • The garden was humming with bees.
  • The restaurant hums on weekends.
  • I was humming to myself.
  • The refrigerator hummed in the background.
  • By noon, the office was really humming.
  • The room hums but doesn’t shout.
    — Daniel Scheffler, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Right off the bat, the room was humming.
    — Elizabeth Leonard, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Choirs of insects clicked and hummed.
    — Ryan Knighton, AFAR Media, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Eye Patch rocked on the balls of his feet and hummed.
    — Will MacKin, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
  • But for right now, at least, the lights are on and the mill is humming.
    — Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
  • Lost in our mind frequency, which hummed loud now like a drone.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Or that the offense was humming.
    — Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Or, instead of lyrics, hum a portion of the tune for your team to guess.
    — Chloe Gorman, Country Living, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The laser-cutting machine hummed with life.
    — Jessica Ma, Dallas Morning News, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The laser-cutting machine hummed with life.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Now D’Amaro needs to keep them humming.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The offense is off and humming, and has yet to punt the ball through two games.
    — James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Traffic hummed and whined on I-85.
    — Thomas Lake, AJC.com, 13 May 2026
  • The sun sets and the wind dies down, but the grid must still hum along at perfect balance.
    — Robert Rapier, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • When the economy is humming, that isn’t such a big deal.
    — Rogé Karma, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The cicadas were humming and the trees were dancing to the rhythm of the wind.
    — Monique Brown, refinery29.com, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Or the low-grade brain damage humming in the zeitgeist.
    — Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The city gets paid if everything is still humming along decades from now….
    — Victoria Le, Oc Register, 21 Mar. 2026
  • What that means for the monorail is unclear, but the plan is to keep the line humming.
    — David Kroman, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2023
  • Meanwhile, your body floats in a tank, electrodes humming.
    — Shai Tubali, Big Think, 5 Aug. 2025
  • You are guaranteed to be humming your favorite tune on your way home.
    — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Momoa kept up with the girls, nailing every dance move and humming along to the song.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 27 Apr. 2023
  • As the sun sets and the sky turns inky blue, the thick, shadowy forests start to hum with an ethereal glow.
    — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2022

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