hum
verb (used without object)
to make a low, continuous, droning sound.
have hummed
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present perfectof hum.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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His intense cross-examinations have become legendary - while defending CBS in a defamation case in 1986, reporters are said to have hummed the Jaws theme song whenever he got up to question a witness.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2022
I have hummed it for decades when zigzagging through shopping malls or urban sidewalks or stadium parking lots while pretending to avoid would-be tacklers.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2020
Kirsten Green, a Hollar investor who followed dollar stores as a stock analyst, said old-line businesses just haven't had the impetus to go online in a big way as their physical businesses have hummed along.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2015
Since January, the offices of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company have hummed like a checkout counter as executives switched jobs.
From Time Magazine Archive
He seems to have hummed and hawed, and then to have said that she need not trouble her head about it—that she was a good girl, and had better be content with doing her duty.
From Watersprings by Arthur Christopher Benson
