thrummed

past tense of thrum

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for thrummed
Verb
  • There were whispered mentions of prison, alcoholism, domestic abuse.
    Rachel Linden, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Samira, a 19-year-old student from Kabul, was in a religious education class on Wednesday when a cleaner entered the room and whispered something to her teacher, who ran out, and then came back minutes later, beaming with her phone.
    Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The audience sighed in relief and immediately got up to leave.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Andy sighed, shuddering between them.
    Bryan Washington, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Getting hissed off So here’s a thing that happened.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Nineteen hours after departure the train took its final breath, hissed and braked into the historic port of Narvik.
    The Editors, Outside, 31 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Deep breathing could be heard; birds chirped loudly outside; spectators murmured on the periphery.
    Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Alex fizzed in a pinpoint cross to De Rosario, who nodded home from four yards out.
    Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Offense has largely hummed when Bo Nix is decisive.
    Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Lost in our mind frequency, which hummed loud now like a drone.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The machines whizzed and whirred.
    Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But from the very first race in the summer of 1993, these sausages have sizzled and arguably helped to modernize the most traditional American pastime.
    Don Riddell, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • On day seven of the 2025 World Athletics Championships, Lyles sizzled on Tokyo tracks to claim his fourth consecutive 200-meter world title.
    Paras J. Haji, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
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“Thrummed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thrummed. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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