38 Verbs to Use for the Word hum

It was funny to hear the hum of satisfaction when any well-known movement of Beethoven or Mozart was attacked.

Yet here Friar Martin paused, sighing, to look behind, whence rose the distant hum of those thronging townsfolk who yet crowded wall and street and market square to watch the gallows burn.

But when the boat of Antonio also swept ahead, there arose such a hum of voices as escapes a throng when a sudden and violent change of feeling is produced in their wayward sentiments.

It was Thorn's car; she knew its hum and as she watched the dust get nearer her face went white.

Benjamin Briscoe was making radiators and fenders; W.C. Durant was manufacturing buggies; Walter Flanders was selling machinery on the road; Hugh Chalmers was making a great cash-register factory hum with system; Fred W. Haines was struggling with the problem of developing a successful gasoline engine.

An enormous crowd, reinforced and agitated by tributary currents from the side-streets, jostling one against another, surging, stormy, and whence ascended an ominous hum.

And when he caught the hum and whirr of the wind through the wings, he was more thoroughly convinced of the fact than ever.

But indeed, silence had fallen upon Belsaye, and no sound brake the quiet save the distant hum and stir of conflict upon the broken wall.

I'll dandle you in my arms [hums]; I'll rock you in a little cradle; I'll sing you to sleep.

"Just about that," said Frank, quietly, the busy motor having decreased its merry hum, so that they could talk without raising their voices very much.

Or the live air is full of droning hums And cracking whips and whispering snakes of fire, And a loud buzz of conversation comes From Simpson's party putting out some wire.

Cannons fire, and military bands drown the low hum of the chanting.

I've got a harnsome big degarrytype tew hum, but the heft on't makes it bad tew kerry raound, so I took this.

Your father he brought that hum the same v'yage I told ye he brought the blue crape.

Now that the upstart day is dumb, One hears from the still earth a whispering throng Of forces animate, with murmured song Joining the zephyrs' well-attunèd hum.

No one was superior to the matron, who, with her busy daughters, kept the hum of the wheel incessantly alive, spinning and weaving every article of their dress.

That young lady pouted, and uttered an expressive "hum!" Verty turned his eyes absently toward her.

Is there ever a woman who would leave the hum and glitter of cities to walk with such as I in the shadow of these forest-lands?

Angy's loyal heart was crying out to her mate: "Don't git the sisters daown on yer, Abe, 'cuz then, mebbe, yew'll lose yer hum!"

Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?

It meant the awakening hum of insects, the song of the thrush, the play of grouse and all kinds of life on the desolate mountain.

And we drove away 'mid the rising hum of hundreds of tongues, loosened after the agonizing suspense.

He also missed the cheery hum at the same time, and felt a sickening sensation of falling.

All work together, all together rest, The morning still renews their labours past; Then all rush out, their different tasks pursue, Sit on the bloom, and suck the ripening dew; Again, when evening warns them to their home, With weary wings and heavy thighs they come, 240 And crowd about the chink, and mix a drowsy hum.

Professor Spaghetti the music supplies, From his hurdy-gurdy the waltz is sublime; His fair daughter Rosa, whose tambourine flies, Is merrily thumping the rollicking time; The Widow McCann pats the tune with her slipper, The peanut-man hums as he peers from his stall, And Officer Quinn for a moment looks in To see the new steps at the hand-organ ball.

38 Verbs to Use for the Word  hum