Hum has 1 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Hum baby to sleep. | |
| 2. | A melody is not merely something you can hum. | |
| 3. | I've had enough of the rain and the daily hum-drum. | |
| 4. | I hear the buzz of a fan, the drip of the faucet, the hum of the fridge, the tick of the clock, the whoosh of cars passing by the house. | |
| 5. | What's causing that hum? | |
| 6. | You should not mope all day in your rooms, but should come out into the green garden, and hear the birds sing with joy among the trees, and see the butterflies fluttering above the flowers, and hear the bees and insects hum, and watch the sunbeams chase the dew-drops through the rose-leaves and in the lily-cups. | |
| 7. | The apple-pickers on the ladders raised a hum and murmur of applause, and then, in keeping with the sound, bestirred themselves to work again like bees. | |
| 8. | I often hum while I work. | |
| 9. | Their journey was silent but for the hum of the engine, the hiss of the rain and the rhythmic squeaking of the windshield wipers. | |
| 10. | In a generic brick building on the northwestern edge of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center campus in Greenbelt, Maryland, thousands of computers packed in racks the size of vending machines hum in a deafening chorus of data crunching. |