How To Use Thrum In A Sentence

It felt like chewing string dipped in weed killer, but within a couple of minutes the trembling in his limbs gave way to a kind of enervated thrumming and the pounding in his head subsided to a manageable level. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
A stomach-teasing aroma of stewed food was in the air, and the thrumming of African bass guitar wafted through the open window.
The frontier ran roughly north-westwards from London into the north-west midlands; Guthrum was to withdraw with his troops behind this line, where he was to be recognized as king of an independent kingdom.
The blind man had finished his song; he began thrumming the strings again and singing amusing ballads.
He cocked his head as he felt the deck under his feet thrumming with power.

Or investing in the agricultural sector so farmers are more able to meet demand for crops like Artemesia annua and pyrethrum, easily-grown botanical ingredients in anti-malarial drugs? Global Voices in English » Global Health: Twitter Face-Off To Fight Malaria
Others are synthetic versions of naturally-occurring insecticides, such as those found in the plant pyrethrum.
We head toward the thrum and trumpet call of a loud bolero and enter the bar just as the six-man combo breaks into a loud rendition of ‘Chan Chan,’ the song made famous by the Buena Vista Social Club album.
A case in point is ‘Smelling Limes In Winter’ which begins with thrumming, dulcimer-like pluckings through which a central drone rises.
You can purchase concentrated pyrethrum from a nursery or the garden supply section of your supermarket.
Suddenly above the steady vibrating thrum of the C130 cargo plane's four giant Rolls-Royce turboprop engines, a sound rings out.
When he had once opposed Themistocles in some measures that were expedient, and had got the better of him, he could not refrain from saying, when he left the assembly, that unless they sent Themistocles and himself to the barathrum, (a pit into which the dead bodies of malefactors were thrown) there could be no safety for Athens. The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls
Whenever muscular control of the operculum was established (presumably very early), it was probably based on the cleithrum.
He starts thrumming the guitar and his age vanishes.
the little nerve thrumming in my brain `So what made ye jump, then? THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
Industrial progress in Chicago produced loud sounds, whether the thrum of machinery, the clangor of busy loading docks, or the cries of brawny laborers.
And Lisette took down her banjo, and sat down in the doorway under the arch of lamarque roses, and began thrumming gayly. Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Vol. I
Push the Elantra beyond a canter, though, and the engine's creamy smoothness gives way to a hollow drone, accompanied by some thrummy vibes at wide-open throttle. Epinions Recent Content for Home
Rotenone and pyrethrum don't work, even if applied more frequently.
Rockets scream around you, birds move overhead, engines thrum quietly in your wake.
Irritatingly, somewhere across the constant six-lane thrum of traffic, church bells were ringing. TICKLED PINK
But she lay and tossed in the soft bed, which seemed hot even though an air-conditioner thrummed in the window. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
- The dominant P, allele codes for "thrum" pollen, the recessive, p allele codes for "pin" pollen, which is much smaller. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
The thrums were a perquisite of my own, which I niffered with the gundy-wife for Gibraltar-rock, cut-throat, gib, or bull's-eyes. The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
American consumers - and especially the military, which had used pyrethrum for delousing front-line troops - howled for the development of a suitable substitute.
They all sat down and began to thrum the strings of their instruments in a muffled, dreamy manner.
The chopper engine kept on thrumming, and the sea came closer and closer.
The gallows perhaps is the English term most nearly corresponding to the barathrum, as commonly spoken of in the Athenian popular language. Aristides
Habet profectò Indiæ occidentalis mons quidam flammiuomus æquiores multò, quàm hic noster censores & historicos, minimè illic barathrum exædificantes: Cuius historiam, quia & breuis est, & non illepida, subijciam, ab Hieronimo Benzone Italo in A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
With this in mind, and perhaps 18 local ears cocked in close attendance, when I reached the head of the Golden Fry queue I heard myself round off the word 'supper' in a ridiculous thrumming roll. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
Secondly, that final track 'Marais Le Nit' or 'The Night Marsh' (30 minutes or so of a muted chorus of frog calls and thrumming crickets) which seems to have caused to much consternation across the web - to me it acts as a kind of caul that hangs lightly across the rest of the album, an index of the elemental nature of the themes contained within it. The Line Of Best Fit
By the mid 1800s, the heads of chrysanthemum flowers were used to obtain pyrethrum, and rotenone was extracted from the derris plant.
I had visions of hearing the thrum of the tense bowstring as I unleashed an arrow at an archery target.
Blood thrummed through my veins at the speed of light. Darkness Becomes Her
He thrummed a guitar.
The petala are very tender, 5 in number, scarce so large as the calix: in the middle stands a columella thick set with thrummy apiculae, which argue this plant to belong to the Malvaceous kind. A Voyage to New Holland
If it is something very stingy or very liberal, all Thrums knows of it within a few hours; indeed, this holds good of all the churches, especially perhaps of the Free one, which has been called the bawbee kirk, because so many halfpennies find their way into the plate. Auld Licht Idylls
The vril-powered saucer thrummed softly on the roof of the Führerbunker awaiting his arrival. Nazisploitation Nanofiction: Entry 24
The Samoset rolled and righted on a sea, and in the light breeze her canvas gave forth a hollow thrum. Bunches of Knuckles
Some are derived from plants, such as pyrethrum and neem.
Each day I wake as currents thrum through blood and flesh, untempered heart. Abstinence
Teeming with the rich period details that make historical fiction so rewarding, Gullands dynamic and nuanced portrait of Louis notorious reign thrums with page-turning expediency and deliciously seductive machinations. Mistress of the Sun by Sandra Gulland: Book summary
This is the area where significant cash crops are grown, including pyrethrum (a flower that produces a natural insecticide), coffee and tea.
Its mile-long wings thrummed the air, blasting flat every creature on the desert below. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
Water was her favored element, and she had always found the steady thrum of raindrops hitting the earth to be soothing.
Themistocles and himself to the barathrum, there could be no safety for Athens. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Iam verò coelestem habere materiam, nemo audebit dicere: Ne forte inde aliquis suspicetur, glaciem hanc barathrum, quod illi Historici affingunt, secum è coelo traxisse: Vel id coelo, quippe eiusdem materiæ cum glacie, commune esse, atque ita carcer damnatorum cum A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
[Page 199] people who educated her had no coherence or consistence of character, and, with all her strength, she wanted something able to bind her together; she must weave up her 'thrums' herself, and she might make them into cloth-of-gold! Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
By the mid 1800s, the heads of chrysanthemum flowers were used to obtain pyrethrum, and rotenone was extracted from the derris plant.
The steady thrum of air-conditioning followed by the click-clack of the overhead fans raged together in a unique symphony.
Pesticides that are approved for organic farming include copper, sulfur, petroleum distillates, and pyrethrum.
Adult mosquitoes were obtained from houses within a village by resting and pyrethrum knockdown collections.
It had been a saying of Aristides, "that if the Athenians desired their affairs to prosper, they ought to fling Themistocles and himself into the barathrum. Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete
Through his brain thrummed the thought: It is for Dick's sake ... for Dick's sake. The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century
Embers (the darker skein) is wool (unknown type) and red recycled sari fibers (cut from the thrums of Tibetan looms), with some sparkly "firestar" fibers in red and gold added in. Places You Haunt
Joan and Sheldon heard the twanging thrum and saw Koogoo throw out his arms, at the same time dropping his rifle, stumble forward, and sink down on his hands and knees. Chapter 24
Suddenly, world news isn't some distant background thrum you can tune out, it's big and it's scary and it's coming to get you.
Josephine sat up in bed, arms wrapped around her knees, and listened to the rain thrumming on the roof.
And to complete it all his horse stumbled upon several large broods of half-grown quail, and the air was filled with the thrum of their flight. Chapter VIII
The thrum is the fringed end of a weaver's web; a thrum hat was made of very coarse tufted woollen cloth. It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
In love-making, as in the favourite Thrums game of the dambrod, there are sixty-one openings, and he knew them all. Tommy and Grizel
Geoff reckons to use a contact spray like pyrethrum which breaks down within about 24 hours.
The rumbling grew to the sound of thunder and then to the strongest thrum they had ever heard.
Important September blooming flowers are phlox, Japanese anemones; perennial asters, or Michaelmas daisy, so-called because they are supposed to be at their best on Michaelmas Day, September 29th; helleniums, helianthus, hardy chrysanthemum, pyrethrum uliginosum, boltonia. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916
Pesticides that are approved for organic farming include copper, sulfur, petroleum distillates, and pyrethrum.
Thus saying, he took a heavy draught of the liquor by which he was usually inspired, and the praises of which were the prevailing subject of his song; then, after much hemming, thrumming, and prelusion, and with many queer gestures and gesticulations, he began to effuse a lyric in the following fashion: -- Fanshawe
Thrums, I was ben in the room playing Hendry at the dambrod. A Window in Thrums
The engines thrummed slowly to a stop, reverberating power through the air.
We gaze at the sky from the bottom of a savage granite _barathrum_, whence there is no escape but return through the chinks and over the crags of an Old-World convulsion. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
In some areas, extremely fertile soils produce coffee, tea, and pyrethrum (used in making insecticides).
All of the troupe's performers are confident movers, easily fitting into the thrum of the house music score.
Now her heart began thrumming lightly in her ribcage.
Any acrid drug, as pyrethrum, held in the mouth acts as a sialagogue externally by stimulating the excretory ducts of the salivary glands; and the siliqua hirsuta applied externally to the parotid gland, and even hard substances in the ear, are said to have the same effect. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
Daisy plants were first used centuries ago as a lice remedy in the Middle East, and this led to the discovery of pyrethrum insecticides.
The glenoid fossa itself is somewhat pear-shaped, with the small end pointing toward the cleithrum.
There is the occasional bit of ambient engine thrumming, or an occasional starship flyby that uses directional effects, but these uses are infrequent and nothing to write home about.
The characters which distinguish this genus from Pentarthrum are the obviously basally contracted rostrum, deep broad scrobes, short scape, incrassate elytral margins, strongly singly rounded apices, and sutural notch, these last two being quite exceptional features amongst the Cossonidae.
The bed was ablaze with the yellow flowers, and here, large humming squadrons of shiny black carpenter bees would thrum from pre-dawn onwards.
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A loud whoop was briefly transmitted from the ship before the only sound was the thrum of the thrusters as the captain throttled them back down.
Suttie thrums the heartstrings like a flamenco guitarist. Edinburgh festival 2011: The highs and lows
The only sounds were bugs thrumming in the grasses above and birds chirping even higher up.
He could hear the thrum of a banjo.
Stretched full upon the floor would lay the minstrel, lute in hands, thrumming gently as his voice rang out through the marble room.
Not all herbs smell good - catmint, curry plant, pyrethrum, rue, santolina and tansy are all pretty pongy.
She was sweating; her entire body thrummed with fear and nausea, shuddering against the strong desire to punch the gas, to drive as fast as she could. A Light at Winter’s End
The sounds of their talking was a steady thrum in my ears, growing louder and louder as Four's hand on my arm grew tighter and tighter.
The pectoral fin is set low on the lateral flank behind the notch of the cleithrum and is supported by a small rounded lobe covered with minute rhombic scales.
You lose the crispness of the trebles and the rich thrum of the bass.
For body lice, use pyrethrum with piperonyl butoxide lotion over the whole body and wash off after 10 minutes.
Irritatingly, somewhere across the constant six-lane thrum of traffic, church bells were ringing. TICKLED PINK
The spray does not control the adults, so you can either handpick the adults or spray them with pyrethrum insecticide.
The plunky Wessexians winning a ferocious match under their manager Alfred against the dirty, cheating, fouling--one might almost say "pagan"--Danes led by their boss Guthrum. Epic tales of the Wessex footballing crowd | Frank Keating
'Roothythanthrum') being the property of one landlord and the residence of four tenants at the same time makes us in a sense participators in the old system of rundale tenure, long since abolished. Penelope's Irish Experiences
It seems probable that in the future, synthetic pyrethroids will be of more interest than pyrethrum as possible delousing agents.
And the bright thrums hang unwinded by the maiden's weaving-stock: The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs
The volcano still thrummed, howling like a strong wind.
Funk said the constant thrum of traffic wasn't as disruptive as the pounding that woke her family during the ICC's construction over the past three years. ICC opens to traffic
By the mid 1800s, the heads of chrysanthemum flowers were used to obtain pyrethrum, and rotenone was extracted from the derris plant.
When I looked closely I could see the truck had a PyGanic label with the iconic pyrethrum flower on the side.
The blood thrummed dully in her eardrums, echoing throughout the caverns and sending pain shooting to her skull.
We were on dirt then, the tyres thrumming on the hard, impacted surface, the windscreen wipers flicking back and forth. HIGH STAND
Ventriloquist, the heart throws its voice to the wind, thrums from the burr oaks and lichen covered stones. Small Press Poetry « So Many Books
Numerous flowers are called Bachelor's Buttons, including daisies, globe flowers, pyrethrums, and different kinds of ranunculi, but here we have the "original and true;" probably it originated in some ancient English garden, as Gerarde says, "It groweth in the gardens of herbarists & louers of strange plants, whereof we have good plentie, but it groweth not wild anywhere. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
There was a pokey borlotti bean mousse to start and warm mince pies to finish, and the general thrum and roll of happy waiting staff doing what they do best. Restaurant review: Albert's Table
And they have that trademarked Ron Goulart writing style--who else would continually refer to Vampi as "high-breasted," or note that her the strrips of her costume made of satin in the books "thrums" tautly against her body? VAMPIRELLA 3: DEADWALK by Ron Goulart (Warner 1976)
As a child, did you ever slip beneath the bathwater's surface, listen to the blood thrumming in your ears, and find comfort in being completely submerged?
Sonorous as thunder was it, mellow as a golden bell, thin and sweet as a thrummed taut cord of silver - no; it was none of these, nor a blend of these. THE RED ONE
His heartbeat thrummed in his ears, his face hot with blood.
A truncated single-decker bus had thrummed to a halt alongside her. TICKLED PINK
Outside the dramatically beautiful Saitama stadium the coaches were waiting to leave, their engines thrumming in the darkness.
ALL week, front pages and news broadcasts have thrummed and crackled with reports that Bristol is one of Britain's most notorious black spots for drug abuse, prostitution, gun crime and gang warfare.
These hatch out in moist potting mix and can be treated by immersing the pot and spraying the foliage in a solution of pyrethrum insecticide.
‘That's pyrethrum,’ said Niko ‘it's used as an insecticide.’
You can treat them with pyrethrum, white oil, soapy water or just squash them with your fingers.
Now clip a pen to the end of the ruler and thrum it again.
Rain starts thrumming into the canal and onto the skylight outside my room.
Industrial progress in Chicago produced loud sounds, whether the thrum of machinery, the clangor of busy loading docks, or the cries of brawny laborers.
I could feel the land thrumming with a barely contained vibrancy.
As a child, did you ever slip beneath the bathwater's surface, listen to the blood thrumming in your ears, and find comfort in being completely submerged?
Adrenaline thrummed through my veins, fueled by fury. Darkness Becomes Her
Its bones were surely made of brittle glass, they seemed so fragile, and its heart thrummed like a miniature electric motor as it beat over a thousand times a minute.
thrum" like appearance of the hair, which is of a somewhat reddish tinge, occasioned no doubt by constant exposure to the sun and weather. Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland
Towels, table cloths and shirts were made in the same slow way, and even the "best-fixed" families were glad to use "thrums" for towels and soft soap Country life in Georgia in the days of my youth,
Those words were thrumming through my head every minute I was in that establishment.
In fine, when he once had opposed Themistocles in some measures that were expedient, and had got the better of him, he could not refrain from saying, when he left the assembly, that unless they sent Themistocles and himself to the barathrum, 2 there could be no safety for Athens. Aristides
He leaned on the merlon and listened to the faint thrum of music from below, glad of the space between it and him. The Falcons of Montabard
The steering arm thrums under their hand, the deck heaves beneath their feet and the keen salt wind cuts like a knife through even a good sealskin cloak.
Mom begins the work, rift sole, winkle thrum, the movement is in that way skilled.
I pictured the streets of Quebec alive with people: the young seigneur set off with furs and silken sash and sword or pistols; the long-haired, black-eyed woodsman in his embroidered moccasins and leggings with flying thrums; the peasant farmer slapping his hands cheerfully in the lighted market-place; the petty noble, with his demoiselle, hovering in the precincts of the Chateau St. Louis and the intendance. The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
His body thrums with tension, taut as a drawn bow, muscles spring-coiled. Etched in Bone
Not all herbs smell good - catmint, curry plant, pyrethrum, rue, santolina and tansy are all pretty pongy, ranging from slightly musty to downright disgusting.
Ergo ut praelocuti sumus, quomodo unumquodque dictum sit, consideremus ne forte per ignorantiam in barathrum decidamus erroris. Pneumatologia
By two in the morning our shrouds were thrumming in a piping breeze, and I got up and gave her more scope on her hawser. SMALL-BOAT SAILING
Then she went to the garden centre and bought pyrethrum with which to spray the greenfly. Times, Sunday Times
It is an astonishing sound: not so much the roar of dirty thunder as the luminous thrum of precision engineering yielding to the control of an expert driver.
he could hear the thrum of a banjo
Her voice thrummed against his body with a soothing vibration.
These booties use the same “extreme thrumming” technique as the fleeced earflap hat.
Iam ver� coelestem habere materiam, nemo audebit dicere: Ne forte inde aliquis suspicetur, glaciem hanc barathrum, quod illi Historici affingunt, secum � coelo traxisse: Vel id coelo, quippe eiusdem materi� cum glacie, commune esse, atque ita carcer damnatorum cum The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Conversations aggregate into a low thrum that sounds like oiled loafers swooshing over carpet.
Still that wasn't too bad and we poked it into the canister and I squeezed the trigger and it thrummed to life - then I was fretting that I wouldnt know when it was full but Dad reconned it would have an automatic cut off - and sure enough it went thunk. Snell-Pym » Parafin Shower
But she lay and tossed in the soft bed, which seemed hot even though an air-conditioner thrummed in the window. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
But nothing could drown out the other incessant thrumming.
A natural pyrethrum insecticide is cheaper, less harmful and just as effective as those chemical poisons to kill spiders.
The best part of that activity is that after you're finished with it, you can take drive your mud-plastered 4X4 out the highway and open 'er up, listen the thrummy hum of your monster tires on the asphalt and the light whistle of the wind as it hardens the oozing mud all over your truck's body to a brittle shell. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
Get Back pumps along on a resonant thrum of drums and chiming rhythm guitar.
There is a thrum of activity in haberdashery and crafts. Times, Sunday Times
It has the thrummy but underpowered 1.5-litre, threecylinder petrol engine, which pushes 101bhp through a snappy six-speed manual transmission. The Sun
The genotype GgAaPp gives rise to the "thrum" phenotype, which has short styles, long anthers, and thrum pollen. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
A volley of stones thrummed and boomed the wire mosquito nettings that protected the windows. WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE
I kenned the critter, halfway hoping to feel a friendly thrum. Ancient, Strange, and Lovely
His snort sent a smoke ring sailing past yellow jewelweed where a hummingbird thrummed. On Barack Obama and 'the art of the possible'
She uttered a shriek and stretched her long limbs out on the carpet and thrummed her pretty little fists into the white pile. NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
Then the world was reduced to a maddening thrum frequently pierced by the high-pitched scream of generators.
Sitting up on the coaming, spring sun in our eyes, the thrumming of the sail above us, we were as happy as the coots and grebes fossicking around in the reeds.
In addition to the rat - garment used by the men, the women wear a kind of fringed petticoat suspended from the waist down to the knees, made of the inner rind of the cedar bark, and twisted into threads, which hang loose like a weaver's thrums, and keep flapping and twisting about with every motion of the body, giving them a waddle or duck gait. Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River
In this case, thrumming bass plucks and bouncing ball patterns entropically expire amidst wheezing exhalations and electrical shimmer.
From inauspicious beginnings, they moved up several notches until their three guitars created a vast dynamic, pulsating thrum on the final song.
Sure," I said, casually, while my blood thrummed loud enough to deafen me. READY?
She's aware of the engine thrumming beneath her, and through her.
Rwanda's export opportunities to the US include textile and clothing, and horticulture products which include pyrethrum extracts, organic food products as well as essential oils such as geranium which is used in pharmaceutical industries and perfumes. AllAfrica News: Latest
A thrum vibrated through the air, the sound so deep it could only be felt, not heard. Crimson Wind

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