How to Use thrum in a Sentence

thrum

1 of 2 verb

• This place thrums with character from a bygone era.
  — Vassi Chamberlain, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Apr. 2020
• Listen to the fans thrumming above, passing the stench of death between rooms.
  — Hazlitt, 13 May 2025
• Cicadas thrummed gaily, fields shimmered with bird and insect life.
  — Joyce Carol Oates, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• The book thrums with a newfound pessimism; Ariely seems to have lost faith in his old parlor tricks.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
• The only part of me still alert is my ears, my listening muscles crouched and thrumming.
  — Helen Whybrow july 7, Literary Hub, 7 July 2025
• Decades of migrations, the earth thrumming under their hooves.
  — Literary Hub, 15 Dec. 2025
• The library is now a buzzy and vibrant cultural center thrumming with life.
  — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• My body, thrumming with stress and adrenaline, began to hum instead with desire.
  — Jerrine Tan, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• But beneath the festive atmosphere thrummed a note of anxiety.
  — Vivian Wang, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• For a full twenty-seven minutes and nineteen seconds, the stadium quaked and thrummed.
  — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
• Counteracting all that fat is an aji criollo, a thick green sauce of garlic, peppers and herbs that thrums with lime juice and vinegar.
  — Gabe Hiatt, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
• Diners are greeted with a complementary bowl of hearty bean soup, thrumming with the subtle buzz of chili pepper.
  — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 25 Nov. 2025
• By the afternoon, the same room thrummed with the clink of glasses and unhurried conversation.
  — Katie Strasberg Rousso, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2026
• But this painting is also something entirely other — springy and thrumming with color shifts.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2023
• There are no traffic jams, no thrumming HVAC units, no traces of pollution.
  — Andrew Lawrence, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2023
• The series thrums with time jumps, heartbreak, joy, and family dinners that somehow always end in arguments.
  — Allison Degrushe Published, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• His pike made a swift, powerhouse dive under the raft itself and wrapped the rod around the side of the doughnut so hard that the inflated rubber cylinder thrummed like a drum.
  — Ben East, Outdoor Life, 28 Aug. 2025
• Air thrumming in her ears, confiding such elusive velocities.
  — Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
• The high school drumline thrummed on their equipment, ending their performance to applause from the hundreds of elementary schoolers in the gym.
  — Noah Alcala Bach, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Apr. 2026
• Inside, the supercomputer loomed over me, thrumming like a waterfall.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
• Tensions simmer throughout their convent visit, thrumming just barely below the surface.
  — David Opie, IndieWire, 4 Dec. 2025
• By the end of the first chorus, though, as her voice rises, she’s suddenly bolstered by a thrumming beat, strings and a bull-rush arrangement that builds to a rush-of-blood-to-the-head sprint.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 7 July 2023
• Days after the arrest, Lexington Avenue thrummed with ordinary life.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
• The film uncovers the loss and thrumming tensions of exilic life under Western Europe’s smooth gray surfaces.
  — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025
• The play takes place inside a giant drain pipe constructed on the stage, and underneath it all thrums a destabilizing Lynchian sound design of moody ambience.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 17 Dec. 2025
• For privacy and easy access to the gym and adults-only pool, request a room near the spa and away from the beachfront restaurant, which becomes a thrumming bar at night (this is Mykonos, after all).
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
• About 200 workers filled the sidewalk, the air thrumming with music, cowbells and drivers honking their horns in solidarity.
  — Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2026
• The track, which thrums with delightful menace, blends Knocked Loose’s heavy riffs with Curry’s rapid-fire bars, deliciously denouncing group-think.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2026
• After a handful of minor league outings, Bauer debuted to a crowd that pulsated with the thrumming energy expected of games in Japan.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
• By the 1980s, much of downtown was moribund; buildings that once thrummed with commerce were dilapidated and vacant or underused.
  — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023

thrum

2 of 2 noun

• The creak of a hinge, the thrum of water running through the pipes.
  — Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
• The espresso machine thrums like an engine.
  — Nick El Hajj, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
• Now just the thrum of traffic, seeping through an open window, filled the silence.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2021
• Hershey is so quiet that any noise is jarring — the rustling of branches, the thrum of a truck.
  — New York Times, 28 Sep. 2021
• Here, find escapism and relaxation beneath the thrum of the city.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Feb. 2026
• Your yearnings whet the underside of her tongue, as familiar as the thrum of her own pulse.
  — Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
• Classic rock could be heard playing on the radio, over the thrum of machinery.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2023
• 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
• The decor is deliberately unstudied, paired with the low thrum of hip-hop.
  — Sophie Dening, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Oct. 2021
• Vitality thrums through his stories even in the shadows of despair.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
• The comforting thrum of life in the boarding house is like the company one derives from bringing a book on the train.
  — Literary Hub, 19 Dec. 2025
• Inside, there is a quiet thrum of activity.
  — Alice Cavanagh, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 July 2024
• 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
• Egg or cheese, baby or toddler, tears or silence — humiliation thrums through all of these scenes.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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 thrum of helicopter rotors woke neighbors, and people spilled out of their houses to see what was happening.
  — Washington Post, 10 Feb. 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
• Pocket parks double as public gyms, Vietnamese pop thrums from tinny speakers.
  — Chris Schalkx, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Nov. 2025
• The thrum of a lawnmower’s engine was all that disturbed the tranquility of nature.
  — Darnell Mayberry | , cleveland, 16 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The thrum of an oil tanker’s engines might interfere with killer whales’ ability to communicate or echolocate.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Nov. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The series thrums with time jumps, heartbreak, joy, and family dinners that somehow always end in arguments.
  — Allison Degrushe Published, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025