How To Use Humming In A Sentence

While workers are at home sleeping, their computers are humming along.
The front was embossed with a teal hummingbird sitting on a tie-dyed tree stump.
From the seed feeders on the deck come the euphonious calls of chickadees, the bell-like trill of the dark-eyed juncos, the down-slurred whistle of the titmice, the “ank-ank” of the nuthatches, the “zree” of the house finches, and the coo of doves; from the nectar feeders and flowers, the whirr of hummingbird wings. Birdology
When she wasn't humming she spoke in "theatrical tongue" using many made-up words as we laughed and we purged. La question mille francs - French Word-A-Day
This and the two following numbers, 26 and 27, are only required for the humming birds; 28 is, however, a good size for the least. 24 will be found a good size for the smaller kinds of warblers and finches up to canaries. 21 is a useful general size for a great number of small birds, and will do for such a bird as the hawfinch. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a

The bees were humming in the garden.
The nurse promenaded down the hall, humming what seemed to be some kind of gospel tune.
Restricted foraging time due to inclement weather and the resultant decrease in food intake is believed to influence hypothermia in manakins and may induce torpor in hummingbirds.
Several species of hummingbirds flit about the blooms of the Arizona trumpet and the desert honeysuckle, while the rat-tat-tat of five different kinds of woodpeckers may be heard.
He's got competition for places humming. Times, Sunday Times
In 1941 and 1942-by the sun and a blue sea that she sometimes seems literally to be drawing with, far from her family and the tumult of Berlin, humming as she worked - she painted 1,325 gouaches.
By nine o'clock, the restaurant was humming.
It is probably a hummingbird clearwing Hemaris thysbe. Clearwing moth from the sidewalk
Her head was thrown back against the pillows and she was humming. CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 12: WRITTEN IN THE STARS
Utilities were flush with cash and the economy was humming. Times, Sunday Times
The Arts Centre was planning to promote local-based talent and bridge the gap between pub gigs and the 3,000 capacity Hummingbird venue.
The robot, a similar size to a real hummingbird, is equipped with a micro motor and four wings that can flap 30 times per second, said Hiroshi Liu, the researcher at Chiba University east of Tokyo. Score one for modeling on nature
On the premises were ten species of hummingbirds, slaty-tailed trogon, rufous and broad-billed motmots, collared aricaris.
Hummingbirds favored the maguey cactus, and people who extracted the plant's sap were also known as hummingbirds.
A frog leaps off the bank into a shallow pond just as a hummingbird pauses for nectar from a flaming red salvia plant.
And of course, there are no big choruses or infectious hooks to get you humming along.
Shaped like a knife, a bullroarer makes a humming noise when it is swung.
The computers were humming in the background.
You could plant some tall growers, such as Cleome hasslerana, which is a favorite of hummingbirds, and at their feet cluster a few dwarf dahlias and some alyssum, which are easily grown in planters.
He was humming a tune as he dried the dishes.
Most North Americans are familiar with either the ruby-throated hummingbird, east of the Rocky Mountains, or the rufous hummingbird, west of the Rockies.
Clearly this is still one of the most important, if not the most important factor controlling bill shape, otherwise we wouldn't have curlews, ibises, sword-billed hummingbirds, flamingos, crossbills, or all those oystercatcher polymorphs.
She was like a forest, like the dark interlacing of the oakwood, humming inaudibly with myriad unfolding buds. Lady Chatterley's Lover
I remember the sound of wires humming and teletypes hammering away with wire services.
The nectarivorous hummingbirds evolved a derived mode of hovering flight that allows them to remain virtually motionless in front of flowers.
When it hit, electrical arcs spider-webbed out from the ship, and a humming buzzed from the field.
For chumming me to Tannadice, he negotiated himself half the twenty quid signing-on fee I got from Jim McLean in 1973.
The main unit, comprising the vessels equipped with the live-bait tanks, were to begin "chumming" at once within a given area. El Diablo
Why is my amp humming?
She was humming a merry little tune.
Her father - who's been chumming around with Jack's wife Teri looking for the two runaways - goes to check on the progress of his daughter.
Yet more of them leap up ever higher, their legs scissoring the air as they hover like so many hummingbirds in baggy T-shirts and tights, and a dozen or so pirouette dizzyingly, like human spinning tops.
She had gotten used to the sound of the engines humming beneath her and noticed that they were not on anymore.
It was not merely the earthquake at Chiloe, the Galapagos hummingbirds, it was five years hurling over the side of the ship and groaning ‘oh God!’ with no result. Science
In warm weather a mister will be attractive to hummingbirds and butterflies too!
Steve Gigl has what it takes to keep our computers humming here at Blogger General.
There was a door at the top of the stairs and I picked up my pace, hearing the soft sound of William humming to himself, waiting for me to arrive.
he keeps humming irritatingly
That low humming noise you can hear? Times, Sunday Times
The wings of a bee and those of a hummingbird are analogous.
The most abundant resident birds are the bushtit, pinyon jay, plain titmouse, black-chinned hummingbird, Woodhouse's jay, red-tailed hawk, golden eagle, red-shafted flicker, and rock wren. Colorado Plateau Semidesert Province (Bailey)
His unique style with witty delivery and humorous asides kept the show humming along.
She was humming softly to herself.
This piping is easily heard by _any_ one not actually deaf, and not the least danger of its being taken for any humming; in fact, it is not to be mistaken for anything else _but piping_, even when you hear it for the first time. Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained
John was humming a tune when he put on his clothes.
When taking nectar, hummingbirds contacted anthers, receiving pollen on their bill.
I heard a humming and the dozen fluorescent lights started to flicker on and I blinked, squinting at the bright light.
It even had a name, set in wrought iron letters above the closed-in driveway doors: "Casona de Tzintzuntzan", "the manor house in the place where the hummingbirds gather". Renovating our Morelia house
The Firvulag throng was now almost out of control, straining close to the platform on their side of the field and making an uproar of derisive twitters, growls, and a deep bourdon drone of humming that now reached a crescendo of maddening whole-tone intervals. The Golden Torc
The humming sound of machinery booting up filled the room, and Cameron knew what was happening.
Inside, Lewis was half-heartedly pretending to clean up, brushing things to one side with a dishcloth and humming tunelessly to himself.
Hummingbirds are the most adept aerialists of all birds and the only ones capable of sustained hovering.
He makes a hummingbird look positively torpid.
Gases streaming through this jet hole cause the tube to rotate rapidly on its axis, so creating the humming sound.
The shop was humming with activity as waitresses whizzed to and fro, taking orders or delivering desserts to the customers.
The foliage is delightful, and hummingbirds enjoy sipping nectar from its smaller flowers.
John followed and reached behind to close the door but it was already closing, the sound of small hydraulics humming to his right.
She was wearing the most shapeless bag of a dress, more of a cloth sack, actually, and was pressing her books to her chest, humming as she walked to school.
You can eat outdoors warmed by sheepskin rugs, or in the humming indoor room. Times, Sunday Times
Please ask the law-practicing FBs who the humming dwarf is who roams the halls at the frank crowley criminal courts bldg. Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » WHERE TIM IS, CONT’D
During the four following months it goes in and out, and strolls about between meals, like other young ones of its class, and is then an animal at nurse affording thus a twofold example of the tendency of the great Creator to repeat Himself in His conceptions, here using for the infancy of the mammal the system invented for adult insects -- elsewhere repeating the butterfly in the humming-bird, who may fairly be called a vertebrated butterfly, and reproducing the gnat in the vampire-bat, which I look upon as an enlarged and perfected revise of the original pattern, whence comes the scourge of our sweet summer nights. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals
Although many Singaporeans are "discomforted seeing about one million foreign workers in our total population of 5.1 million," many of those workers do the construction and heavy work needed to keep Singapore's economy humming. Lee Warns of Further Inflation for U.S.
Honeybees (the few that have so far escaped the Varroa mites), bumblebees, various flies and beetles, and the hummingbird clearwing (a moth that thinks it's a hummingbird) frequent milkweeds too.
The dirgelike humming of Lorna Simpson's nearby video installation was audible in the background.
He heard a man's voice humming over the clatter of the engine. THE SERPENT'S MARK
But he did nearly everything else, and when he sent the Humming-Bird down he had made another convert and devotee to the royal sport of aeroplaning. Tom Swift and His Sky Racer, or, the Quickest Flight on Record
It was a tiny humming bird; he was sampling the vintages from a clump of daffodils, foxglove, trillium, and lady's slipper.
[12] Mr.E. H. E.mes reports (in _The Auk_, vol.vii. p. 287) that, on dissecting a humming-bird, about two days old, he found sixteen young spiders in its throat, and a pultaceous mass of the same in its stomach. The Foot-path Way
This afternoon she was content to "scriggle" through the sketchers, and humming a little tune, she passed up to the churchyard. Miss Mapp
The two of them now a superstitious swamp devil, humming, hovering, and plowing through the miasma.
It has to be close-up footage of humming birds with their vibrant feathers glistening in the sun like fluorescent chain mail. Times, Sunday Times
The whole place was humming. Spitfire Women of World War II
This virtual neighborhood of white sharks within a protected area offers something found nowhere else on earth: the chance to study them in their natural environment, unaffected by chumming or baiting.
They made a humming like so many hornets in a country chimney, not with their talking, but with their whispering over their new Minuets and Bories, with the hands in their pockets, if only freed from their snush-box. All About Coffee
The place was humming as the huge attendance ate and drank as if there was no tomorrow.
Hummingbirds often pick up nectar mites when they visit flowers.
A ruby-throated hummingbird beats its wings 50 to 70 times per second.
The manakins vibrate their wings at more than 100 cycles per second, twice the speed of hummingbirds.
But when he sings that doomy line, his voice and the melody of the song's hook soars and you find yourself humming or singing the line yourself.
When nectar resources are scarce, hummingbirds will also feed on sap from holes in trees made by sapsuckers (Sphyrapicus).
There is no music beyond the sound of their buzzing, humming and groaning voices, amplified by microphones hanging over the stage. Times, Sunday Times
A long peaceful silence followed, the distant sounds of car engines humming and people chattering were the only thing audible.
The low sweet humming sound went on, sometimes stopping for a little while and then beginning again. The Princess and the Goblin
She sang solo against the humming of the male voices behind her and against the organ counterpoint.
He shudders as Jack leaves his body, trailing ectoplasm and humming ‘I'm the Wolf.’
Mountain ashes, crabapple trees, and a pear tree provide fruit in season, while trumpet vines and such flowering perennials as penstemon and sage supply nectar that sustains hummingbirds.
His network operations center oversees 350 million terabytes of data and a network that keeps engineering humming around the globe.
Mexico is home to toucans, vultures, hummingbirds, woodpeckers, parrots, macaws, and quetzals.
Flowerbeds where bees vie with hummingbirds for honey offer unmatched opportunity to observe sylphs.
She was still garbed in his clothes and her hips were swaying slightly to the tune she was humming.
He bends down slightly, surprising her, and starts humming along in her ear.
They walked along the edge of the line, and heard the telegraph wires humming over their heads. The Railway Children
He developed high-speed photography, which could freeze a hummingbird in mid-flight or a splash of milk.
A local guide took us out the first morning for a half-day of birding, including a visit to a lek of performing green hermit hummingbirds, and then got us on our way to the Canopy Tower, a short distance north of the city.
I did but refresh myself after the fatigue of the action, with the unbeliever, with one humming cup of sack, and was proceeding to lead forth my captive, when, crash after crash, as with wild thunder-dint and levin-fire, down toppled the masonry of an outer tower, (marry beshrew their hands that built it not the firmer!) and blocked up the passage. Ivanhoe
And I'm glad I did, because not only do I feel like I'm riding a new bike, but there's also still enough residual knobbiness left for them to make that meditative Om-like humming sound on the pavement, thus reinvigorating my sun-baked soul. The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: The Dog Days
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers — a living prismatic gem that changes its colour with every change of position — how in turning it catches the sunshine on its burnished neck and gorges plumes — green and gold and flame-coloured, the beams changing to visible flakes as they fall, dissolving into nothing, to be succeeded by others and yet others? Green Mansions
Birders plan their vacations around the northern extent of the trogon (Chiricauhuas) or where to see 47 varieties of hummingbirds (Ramsey Canyon). Mjh's blog — 2006 — February
Robin slowly woke up to the sound of a ventilator humming.
Our unit has made a tradition of humming taps and having the girl that received the Good Turn squeeze recite the Promise.
In comments I admitted I had a hummingbird spirit but was striving to learn owlish ways. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » How pantsers can embrace the outline
A few species of hummingbirds and European Starling are known to produce UV hues with coherently scattering melanin arrays in feather barbules.
These are visited by a diverse array of animals, including bees, hawk moths, beetles, butterflies, long-tongued flies, hummingbirds and bats.
Again, Saoirse shivered pleasantly, enjoying the cool of his hands against her warm, humming skin.
The towns were compact, in about equal proportions, of bright, new wooden houses and great and growing forest trees; and the chapel bell on the engine sounded most festally that sunny Sunday, as we drew up at one green town after another, with the townsfolk trooping in their Sunday's best to see the strangers, with the sun sparkling on the clean houses, and great domes of foliage humming overhead in the breeze. The Silverado Squatters
The engines are humming my lullaby and their baffled sound comforts me.
As you make ready to enter, the direct-lift machine does not touch the ground; it poises motionless under its whirling rotor blades like a gigantic hummingbird.
I survived only by mentally armoring myself by humming tunes and sketches from the Muppets to myself.
She tucks them in, sometimes humming a song. Times, Sunday Times
Plenty of parrots and hummingbirds do, and likewise many of what are called oscine songbirds, including the warblers, sparrows, blackbirds, thrushes and so on. Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews
It was a tiny humming bird; he was sampling the vintages from a clump of daffodils, foxglove, trillium, and lady's slipper.
Meanwhile, there were plenty of things that did come: flies, dragonflies, humming-birds, all flitting around. COLDHEART CANYON
She had black hair and a ruddy face, and was humming merrily as she sliced bread at the table.
Britain's top performance venues have come up with a radical way to keep the lights up and sound systems humming. Times, Sunday Times
All this happened because you were flitting around like a hummingbird. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
Humming quietly to herself, Sarah got out a comb and brushed her hair.
When they came to the car park Lorenzo was sitting in Claudette's doorway, strumming his guitar and humming. DESPERADOES
We were in the small, dingy office, paint peeling off the walls and the ancient computer monotonously humming.
We thread our way through the cemetery(Sentence dictionary), misquoting or humming quietly and almost comforted.
Some of the most notable bird species of the 112 that have been recorded include Gurney's buzzard Buteo poecilochrous, Andean condor Vultur gryphus, giant hummingbird Patagona gigas peruviana, giant coot Fulica gigantea, and ornate tinamou Nothoprocta ornata. Huascaran National Park, Peru
She sat down at the piano in front of her copy of the music and played a few random notes, humming along.
Familiar humming synths, irresistible hooks turn a tale of alien abduction into an intergalactic anthem. The Sun
The nightingale now opened, and a little humming-bird of most surprising brilliancy hopped forth, and jumping up to the Queen, held out its beak, having a label therein, apparently beseeching her to accept the offering. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)
Despite their size, hummingbirds are aggressive and will fiercely defend their territory from other species as well as other hummingbirds.
The headquarters was air conditioned, crowded and humming with activity from early morning until late at night.
Everywhere on earth that day, in the ears of every one who breathed, there had been the same humming in the air, the same rush of green vapors, the crepitation, the streaming down of shooting stars. In the Days of the Comet
It's known for its great birdlife, with many small flocks of colourful scarlet-bellied mountain tanagers and sword-billed hummingbirds.
Hummingbirds can flap their wings up to 80 times per second.
The angel kept her strokes even and gentle, humming a tune under her breath.
The late summer garden is a quietly humming hive of activity.
When it was over, and Mugridge was back in the galley, he became greasily radiant, and went about his work, humming coster songs in a nerve-racking and discordant falsetto. Chapter 6
He casually walked down the stairs, humming a jaunty tune to himself as he did so.
The old upright Kelvinator fridge still humming away in the corner can still be updated and reused, even in the 21st century.
The hummingbird beats its wings at great speed.
I entered the kitchen and found Ryder humming to himself and saw that the aroma I had smelt was him cooking bacon in a pan.
Sam was humming a little tune .
The little hummingbirds beat their wings faster and their flight is even more graceful than normal.
They might as well be humming, "heigh ho, heigh ho... Archive 2008-11-01
His mind darted like a hummingbird, inquisitive and restless. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Adam typed in some commands, and the computer bank started humming.
Preferred fishing methods are trolling with lures or baits, bottom fishing, jigging, chumming, and spin casting.
In our grief we hover with the hummingbirds: We are spinning on a paused world gone over to itinerant echo.
Now, having gained shelter, they quickly lost the glow of endeavour, and mixed in pleasing stupor the humming of the storm in the tower above, its intermittent onslaughts on the leadwork of the southern windows, and the voice of Parson Babbage lifted now and again from the chancel as if to correct the shambling pace of the choir in the west gallery. I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales
Even though they have small flowers, hummingbirds like heucheras.
And of course, today we have such adept flyers as the swallows, hummingbirds, falcons, and the soaring albatrosses which demonstrate the great diversity of flight adaptations in birds.
He was humming a tune as he dried the dishes.
After all this is the season that provides us with our anthems, to which we'll still be humming or dancing away to in 6 months time in the depths of winter.
Twice a year, rufous hummingbirds travel 2,500 miles between Central America and Alaska.
As I watch, a humming bird stops in midair and turns its attention to the wooly bluecurls and the showy penstemon.
He showed no sign of being effected by my harsh look, as he remained his annoying self, humming some tune I was vaguely familiar with.
The old grass looked greener, and the young grass thrust up its tiny blades; the buds of the guelder-rose and of the currant and the sticky birch-buds were swollen with sap, and an exploring bee was humming about the golden blossoms that studded the willow. Anna Karenina
They evoke romantic images of humming orchard hives and summer sweetness, presided over by veiled eccentrics steeped in arcane lore.
The racket-tail humming-bird (Discura longicauda) takes its name from the curious form of its tail, the feathers of which are forked, -- the two exterior ones being twice the length of the second pair. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
As she started humming the tune and pulled out a stack of papers from the only file in her filing cabinet, the phone rang.
Yet wave upon wave of Royal Air Force bombers, engines humming gently, miraculously avoided the flak fired into the dark night sky.
She spent most of her time chumming up with the president's mother.
The principal characteristic that sets hummingbirds apart from all other birds is their mode of flight.
He was humming a familiar tune.
As usual, Joan Armour was present at center stage or behind the scenes, as necessary, to keep the logistics manageable, the computers humming, and the coffee urns flowing.
I nodded absently, still humming the song as I thought about the dilemma that was rather rapidly snowballing.
I woke up the next day to the faint smell of lilacs and the sweet melodic sound of Alna humming a song in the shower.
Which isn't to say that you leave the theatre humming the songs, exactly. Times, Sunday Times
If you want to lure woodpeckers, hummingbirds, or orioles to your yard, invest in specialized feeders.
There seemed to be miles of dark labyrinthine passagesactually, I suppose, a few hundred yards in allthat reminded one queerly of the lower decks of a liner; there were the same heat and cramped space and warm reek of food, and a humming, whirring noise (it came from the kitchen furnaces) just like the whir of engines. Down and Out in Paris and London
U.S. industry needs a steady supply of engineers and technicians to keep things humming, but the fact is that those who will really make a difference, who will come up with the products, or ideas, or research results that really mean something are a very thin veneer at the top. The Missing Ingredient in the STEM Education Debate « Steve Wildstrom on Tech
Just a few months ago the run-up to such an occasion would have had the wires of Wall Street's vigilantes humming.
The humming sound came from the centre of the field. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
Nectar-producing plants are very popular for attracting hummingbirds and orioles.
About 9% of the extant flora is hummingbird pollinated and it is estimated that around 47% are wind pollinated. Juan Fernández Islands temperate forests
Other flowers attract hummingbirds with color; such flowers tend to be red, have symmetrical tubular flowers, and provide a heavy nectar flow.
Skippers, bumblebees and hummingbirds know which garden they prefer: They'll flock to a yard full of colorful, nectar-rich flowers.
The accuracy of her statement has since been impugned [2] by a correspondent of the Zoological Society of London, on the ground that the mygale makes no net, but lives in recesses, to which no humming-bird would resort; and hence, the writer somewhat illogically declares, that he Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon
For bird species we can cite the red and blue macaw, the brown-throated parakeet, the king vulture, the white bellbird, the hummingbird, and capuchin bird.
Humming the Michelob jingle, Macklin strode to the rear of the car, squatted, and pulled a folded sticker from his back pocket. Archive 2010-04-01
My mornings were made particularly special by visits from hummingbirds and cheeky monkeys stealing bananas from my tree. The Sun
There are many wild birds that don't use nestboxes, such as doves, cardinals, orioles, hummingbirds, just to name a few.
As I type, a hummingbird is feasting at the honeysuckle outside my window. Entretenir de grands espoirs - French Word-A-Day
Birds that may visit mangrove communities include Amazona autumnalis, scarlet macaw (Ara macao), green macaw (Ara ambigua), military macaw (A. militaris), snowy cotinga (Carpodectes nitidus), and several parrots, parakeets, and hummingbirds. Mosquitia-Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast mangroves
Just as the boat passed the town, in the midst of a heavy rain squall, the stokehole hatches in the deck were shut, and the dull humming roar of the fans showed that the fires were being got up. Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887
During the day, various treks are offered into the jungle, though I suspect the chances of actually seeing a tapir or a jaguar are as slim as a hummingbird's beak.
Footsteps echoed in the hallway, accompanied by the sound of Benny's humming.
Tony was humming to himself as he drove along.
Question all the buzzwords and you will find that ‘buzz’ is the apposite one - a long low humming which conveys no meaning.
Preferred fishing methods are trolling with lures or baits, bottom fishing, jigging, chumming, and spin casting.
Observers should report with especial care all cases of unusually close relationship between children in youth, such as childish favoritism, "platonic friendships," "chumming," in school or home, etc. The Story of the Mind
I suspect that I, too, am a hummingbird trying to learn owlish ways. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » How pantsers can embrace the outline
Until the invention of the stroboscope, scientists could not understand how hummingbirds hover. Birdology
She bade me goodnight and walked away, swaying only slightly, and humming an off-key tune under her breath.
The garden was humming with the sound of bees.
Most columbine flowers have backward-projecting spurs that contain rich nectar that can only be reached by hummingbirds.
This biomimetic windmill sports 19-ft. wings of aluminum and carbon fiber that rotate to and fro — à la bumblebees, hummingbirds and dragonflies — to produce 1-10 kW of wind power suitable for homes and small businesses. Kevin Gardner | Inhabitat
Hummingbirds can achieve a forward speed of 45 km per hour and their wingbeat ranges from 70 to 80 beats per second in smaller birds to 10 to 15 beats per second in giant hummingbirds.
He learned to sing, and walked about Gray's Inn Fields "humming to myself (which is now my constant practice) the trillo. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
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Butterflies, moths, hummingbirds, and other pollinators will come for the banquet too.

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