Verb The garden was humming with bees. The refrigerator hummed in the background. I was humming to myself. We hummed along to the music. I hummed a little song. By noon, the office was really humming. The restaurant hums on weekends. See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Verb
Williams is the rare composer that most Americans can name and hum a few bars. Alex Galbraith, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2022 Where land and sea meet is always striking, but the rugged beauty here can make other coastlines seem ho-hum. Walter Nicklin, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2022 Lathrop continued to hum on offense in the third as Clooten scored a pair of TDs including a second one through the air as the team continued to get both its junior quarterbacks work. Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2022 Just be prepared to be locked into ho-hum 5G performance until AT&T rolls out its network updates that are on the horizon. Dave Leclair, PCMAG, 12 July 2022 Two refrigerators with sauerkraut, pierogi and homemade soups inside, hum softly across from the register. Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2022 At the main port, electric vehicles hum past tourists, transporting goods. Derek Gatopoulos, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 May 2022 That seemed rather ho-hum compared to Saturday night against the Red Sox at Progressive Field. Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 26 June 2022 While this sector of your chart is hardly exciting, these planets want to bring pleasure and unpredictability in equal measures, so what might look ho-hum at first could turn out to be anything but.Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Verb
Middle English hummen; akin to Middle High German hummen to hum, Middle Dutch hommel bumblebee