She hummed phrases to herself and subsequently searched for the corresponding notes on the piano.
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 a hummed running commentary).
My bedding was rotten through, but most of the other stuff just hummed.
Before the war the pharmaceutical industry had little to offer patients, and doctors hummed and hawed uselessly by the bedside.
Up to the second part of the nineteenth century these centres hummed with activity, both economic and cultural.
Some hawed, some hummed, no very decisive answer was given.
Does he agree that those ideas, on which he has hummed and hawed for several months, should be definitely excluded?
The looms might have hummed and the blast furnaces might have glared.