Sentences with phrase «hummed away»

At idle the desktop hummed away at a lazy 42 decibels, which is reasonable.

Our review car came equipped with an upgraded 15 - speaker Bose sound system which hummed away nicely after some initial tweaking.

By Joseph Giannetti, this modern - day cave painting, 8 metres high and 18 metres wide, is an impressionistic celebration of the advances in 20th - century neutrino physics, from Wolfgang Pauli's theoretical insight that neutrinos should exist to crucial neutrino experiments humming away today.

A sluggish thyroid that isn't humming away as it should will show signs of this in your experience of your cycle.

Turn the key, release the electronic parking brake, slide the gear lever back a few notches, and the XL1 hums away from a standstill on electric power.

Instead, the 1.8 - litre Atkinson Cycle four - cylinder petrol engine hums away discreetly in the background — a bit like your fridge compressor at home.

ROAD TEST EDITOR JONATHAN WONG: As Acura is busy rebuilding its sedan portfolio with the new TLX and updated ILX, its SUV / crossover lineup continues to hum away smoothly with brisk sales of the...

The price point has already been made famous by Amazon and its Kindle Fire tablet, though with the Iconia Tab A501, you get to stretch your fingers a bit more as its a full 10.1 inch of touchscreen on the A501, with the nVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor humming away inside.

BlackBerry Protect is a utility that lives in the background, humming away quietly, and for the most part it's something you don't really think about - until you need it.

However you spend your time in Jamaica, you will adore relaxing amid the resplendent warmth of Nutmeg South, especially as you catch that fleeting glimpse of a doctor bird humming away.

Unlike other Star Wars games, where you are forced to gad about with your lightsaber constantly humming away, a short sharp press on the relevant face button will see your character dis - ignite their blade and tuck it into their pocket, or bring it bursting into life just in time to deflect that stray bit of blaster fire.

The active reactors, Indian Point 2 and 3, were humming away on Thursday, and a new feature is an open - air pad where spent fuel taken from crowding cooling pools is increasingly being stored in «dry casks» — super rugged containers that no engineer has yet figured out how to breach.

Tucked deep within the HTC One M9's metal shell there's a Snapdragon 810 humming away.

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These are the days when the death of winter, the stripping away of it all, is humming towards the renewal of spring and we can feel it, feel it right from the dirt and the water, the trees and the very air — life is coming, blooming, and God, it's beautiful.

Doing away with the hum - drum name, which to them evoked slow lines, and well... salads in the traditional sense, they chose to define the program by focusing on the garden, a place where a wide variety of fruits and veggies are grown, not just for salads, but for lots of healthy eating choices.

A hum of subdued approval escapes Joe's parted lips as heturns to stare at Gavin before looking away.

Kronke knows that he can go away with three strippers for a year and return and find Wenger has Arsenal humming along in the black with nice profits.

Doing away with the hum - drum name, which to them evoked slow lines, and well... salads in the traditional sense, they chose to define the program by focusing on the garden, a place where a wide variety of fruits and veggies are grown, not just for salads, but for lots of healthy eating choices.

So I too, as I walked away from their preschool, alone, quietly hummed the classic holiday tune, «The Most Wonderful Time of The Year.»

With the General Election now just a year away and the parties» hype machines humming, the Independent on Sunday's chief political commentator John Rentoul predicts what we can expect from the next 12 months in the race for Number 10

To keep the grid humming, electricity has to be tucked away for times when demand exceeds supply.

Whenever you become aware that your attention has drifted away from «So Hum,» choose to return to the mantra.

I also wasn't sure which of the «gut» products to choose, I emailed the nutritionist and was blown away by the personal care and recommendation based on my needs, HUM has a customer for life!

Still, at a time when animated feature films are in danger of losing their magic because of an oversaturation of ho - hum vehicles, Flushed Away contains enough charm, fun, and adventurous spirit to make us hope this genre is far from withering aAway contains enough charm, fun, and adventurous spirit to make us hope this genre is far from withering awayaway.

Even throw away minor moments between Patsy and Edina hum with energy.

«Rampage» does hum alongside at a fairly brisk tempo from disaster to disaster, and the climactic come across is loud, damaging and reasonably thrilling, offering that one's mind is just about packed away through then.

On a trip to Daytona Beach and back - where the Beetle blew away Bike Week crowds - it hummed along at 70 mph and still had plenty of power to pass.

Start the S - class with its incongruously old - fashioned black plastic electronic key, and the engine catches with a faint hum before you draw the shift lever down a notch and pull away.

The yellow bulbs overhead flickered, and the tram rocked away with a rising hum.

It's the only gadget that encourages me — no, forces me — to go off the grid and get away from, as Mike Butcher puts it, the «background hum» of being always - connected.

But you can also back away slowly in a ho - hum, relaxed manner.

It may take only 45 minutes in the car to get to Port Douglas, along a scenic coastal road but it feels like it is a million miles away from the office and the normal hum drum of homely surroundings.

Yet our suite also made us feel like we were «playing house» — a little bolt hole away from the rattle and hum of the outside world.

Tucked away on a tiny isle away from the city's hum, Spa at The Del is a coastal California sanctuary where the ocean leads the way to inner zen.

Some of the most common birds include humming birds, the Great Kiskadee bird, the Rufous - naped Wren, the Orange - fronted Parakeet, the the Great - tailed Grackle bird, sandpiper birds and if you're lucky, even owls sleep the days away in our trees.

Tucked away on a tiny isle minutes away from the hum of Downtown San Diego, Spa at The Del is a coastal California sanctuary where rhythmic ocean waves lead the way to inner tranquility.

I smelled the sizzling Mahi Mahi on a nearby grill and listened to the soft hum of the ocean just a few feet away, our own personal brine for the meal we were about to eat.

In just 20 minutes, we were away from the city's hum and into quiet rural villages, each made up of small, well - kept homes with corrugated tin roofs.

Away from the hum - drum of life.

What's there is fine and perfectly functional, but don't expect to come away humming any of the tunes.

On the opening day of Gamescom 2015, I crept away from the buzzing hum and dazzling lights of the show floor to sit down with Guild Wars 2 Lead Designer Crystin Cox to discuss Heart of Thorns and the horizontal progression development system we now know as the mastery system.

If it's almost impossible to get away from the blinking lights of our gadgets, the beckoning keyboard, the humming hard drive, the ringing of the phone, or the draw of the flatscreen TV, then building a tiny house as a refuge from all that might be the answer.

but myself i'm alone and have a illness and i'm on a fix income.and that is just to much house for me, so the only thing i can think of is to buy a cheap lot or parcel of land that's not to far away from everything and has water / light (was thinking sol panel) so now what started to be a pretty good ideal, hum!!

If you can't, it is a maddening looping nightmare that eats away at your brain as you hum under your breath trying to figure out what you just heard.