hummed
past simple and past participle ofhum
hummed| American Dictionary
hummed
us/hʌmd/past simple and past participle ofhum
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hummed
Shehummedphrases to herself and subsequently searched for the corresponding notes on the piano.
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On the whole, one feels he is most at home with the more deliberate and introspective aspects of this music (and often signals this by providing ahummedrunning commentary).
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My bedding was rotten through, but most of the other stuff justhummed.
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Before the war the pharmaceutical industry had little to offer patients, and doctorshummedand hawed uselessly by the bedside.
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Up to the second part of the nineteenth century these centreshummedwith activity, both economic and cultural.
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Some hawed, somehummed, no very decisive answer was given.
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Does he agree that those ideas, on which he hashummedand hawed for several months, should be definitely excluded?
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The looms might havehummedand the blast furnaces might have glared.
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Initially, the corps had no instruments--- the drummers drummed on any available surface, and the buglers sang,hummed, or whistled the music.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.She purposefullyhummedalong with the tracks he played for her, to get his attention.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The alien approaches the painter and tries to hum the same melody that the painterhummedearlier, but makes some mistakes.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Within a short time the studio boasted 10 teachers and over 140 students each week the storehummedwith activity.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.At the trial he whistled,hummed, and twirled his thumbs throughout the prosecution's case, apparently well-pleased with his position in the limelight.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The music was often created with a banjo and a fiddle, while the lyrics were either sung, crooned, yodeled, whistled,hummed, recited, or chanted.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Caretakers wearing masks appear and restrain him after he hashummeda strange melody.
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