Caretakers wearing masks appear and restrain him after he has hummed a strange melody.
The music was often created with a banjo and a fiddle, while the lyrics were either sung, crooned, yodeled, whistled, hummed, recited, or chanted.
At the trial he whistled, hummed, and twirled his thumbs throughout the prosecution's case, apparently well-pleased with his position in the limelight.
Within a short time the studio boasted 10 teachers and over 140 students each week the store hummed with activity.
The alien approaches the painter and tries to hum the same melody that the painter hummed earlier, but makes some mistakes.
She purposefully hummed along with the tracks he played for her, to get his attention.
Initially, the corps had no instruments--- the drummers drummed on any available surface, and the buglers sang, hummed, or whistled the music.
The looms might have hummed and the blast furnaces might have glared.