hum melody

Frequency: 6.58.0 per million words

to produce a melody with your lips closed

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Examples (10)

  • She would often hum a gentle melody while working in the garden.
  • He tried to hum the melody of the song, but couldn't quite remember it.
  • A child began to softly hum a familiar melody from a lullaby.
  • It was a simple, yet beautiful melody that I often found myself trying to hum.
  • Can you hum that melody again? I think I recognize it.
  • The old man would sit by the window and hum a forgotten melody from his youth.
  • I heard someone hum a cheerful melody in the hallway this morning.
  • Even without words, he could hum the entire melody perfectly.
  • She likes to hum a quiet melody to herself when she's deep in thought.
  • The composer could hum any melody he had ever written, even decades later.