hummingThey might be eating, talking, whistling,humming, smoking during the most dramatic scenes.From theCambridge English CorpusIntermittent cross-fertilization has kept all these fieldshumming!From theCambridge English CorpusTemporal organization of flowering among thehummingbird food plants of a tropical wet forest.From theCambridge English CorpusThus, despite their very different body-plans the sphinx moths have a number of striking convergences withhumming-birds.From theCambridge English CorpusSignificantly more activity was observed in the right than left hemisphere during automatic speech, but not forhumming, which showed equal bilateral activation.From theCambridge English CorpusIn their installation, autonomous robots react to visitors byhummingsad or happy music, and by moving in a particular manner.From theCambridge English CorpusA beautifulhumminginterlude after the second verse led to a reprise of the refrain.From theCambridge English CorpusBesides holding up the building, these posts for a night acted as giant tuning pegs, and if you put your ear to them, you heard the buildinghummingto itself.From theCambridge English CorpusHe paints pictures of the residents - mighty barren-ground grizzlies,hummingmosquitoes, howling wolves, and shy caribou - and details how the demand for oil is affecting them.From theCambridge English CorpusThat grey old man sitting therehummingto himself was not only different from me and you, that's not too hard or unexpected, but from himself.From theCambridge English CorpusThe diffuse and atmospheric comfort of the small but bright gramophone sound corresponds to thehumminggaslight and is not entirely foreign to the whistling teakettle of bygone literature.From theCambridge English CorpusThe one with peoplehumming.From theCambridge English CorpusSmoothhummingsounds are mapped to the electronic gesture interface.From theCambridge English CorpusEverywhere a new spirit is alive—a new confidence, with factorieshumming, new businesses starting up, busy cranes dotting the skyline.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0If after somehummingand hawing, he condescends to take me, we then have to wrangle over the price to be paid for the privilege.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/humming##
