How to Use thrum in a Sentence

thrum

noun
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  • Sense the gentle thrum of panic in your chest, and hear the patter of the drill in the street beyond.
    — Cora Frazier, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Hershey is so quiet that any noise is jarring — the rustling of branches, the thrum of a truck.
    — New York Times, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Want to fall asleep to the thrum of ocean waves, and wake up to aqua-water-meets-blue-sky Caribbean views?
    — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Its flavors are a singular swirl: porky, oniony and minty, with a low thrum of chile heat.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Now just the thrum of traffic, seeping through an open window, filled the silence.
    — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2021
  • Classic rock could be heard playing on the radio, over the thrum of machinery.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2023
  • On a recent Thursday, the room was quiet but for the thrum of a living room television.
    — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 May 2021
  • While not a romance at all, the film thrums with how much Sophie longs for the young father that, it’s implied, hasn’t been present in her life for decades.
    — Vulture, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Though just half an hour from the urban thrum of Dublin, this peninsula jutting into the Irish Sea feels a world away.
    — Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2022
  • The thrum of Francine’s swirling resentment, worry, and lust pierces the quiet that Jérôme’s murder was supposed to bring.
    — Lili Owen Rowlands, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Beating drums, berserkers roaring, the howling of wolves, the deep guttural thrum of chanting voices and the clank of steel.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Few venues are contained by four walls; Instead, people overflow onto the streets to the thrum of live music.
    — Karen I. Chen, Travel + Leisure, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The track boasts a dusty drum groove and an unnerving loop of queasy bell-like synths that chime off-kilter over the occasional thrum of a bass synth.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The roar of the growing burn was overlaid with the thrum of air tankers and helicopters as firefighting response began to gear up.
    — John Riha, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Hundreds of thousands have fled to the south, leaving a silence broken only by the pop of machine-gun fire and the heavy thrum of Israeli tanks.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Dining on the early side or snaring one of the four tables out front are the only alternatives to the clamor as the night thrums on.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
  • The decor is deliberately unstudied, paired with the low thrum of hip-hop.
    — Sophie Dening, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Oct. 2021
  • But Zhao's imprint is also hard to miss in the movie's steady thrum of melancholy and its deeper, odder character arcs.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 26 Oct. 2021
  • On the highway, the Fulvia cruised happily at 80 mph, and the narrow-angle four hummed a happy thrum, snarled through the intake, and rumbled out the exhaust.
    — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 22 May 2022
  • The thrum of a lawnmower’s engine was all that disturbed the tranquility of nature.
    — Darnell Mayberry | , cleveland, 16 Sep. 2023
  • By now, America’s obsession with food allergies is a kind of white noise, a steady thrum at the edge of consciousness.
    — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The thrum of helicopter rotors woke neighbors, and people spilled out of their houses to see what was happening.
    — Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Shot at Brookfield Place in Manhattan, the image shows five office workers wearing versions of the same business-blue shirt, frozen in the thrum of lunch hour.
    — Christy Harmon Stella Bugbee, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
  • My side-eye at their neo-pioneer lifestyle is accompanied by a thrum of envy for the freedom of their life (Who works?
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Throughout the series, the score lends a constant thrum of tension to scenes of pretty people lounging underneath palm trees.
    — Meredith Blake Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2021
  • The ride is firm but not punishing and, thanks to active sound cancellation, the thrum of the GT-R's engine doesn't punish your ear drums when cruising on the highway.
    — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Vitality thrums through his stories even in the shadows of despair.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Its cinematography captures the kinetic thrill of being airborne, the thrust of the engines, the thrum of the drive against gravity.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 15 June 2021
  • And having the orchestra onstage will allow an audience to really feel the thrum of the music.
    — Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 19 Feb. 2022
  • In Detroit, the nocturnal thrum of techno underlies the chanting.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 June 2020

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