A heavy sail, as the sprit-sail, is closelythrummed with yarn and oakum, and drawn under the bottom: the pressure of the water drives the thrumming into the apertures.
The wind thrummed in deep, minor chords between the double doors that shut her study from the greenhouse in the wing.
Outside thrummed the deep, harsh chords of the winter wind.
One, a stout, bearded man, was seated behind a flat-top desk on which he constantly thrummed with nervous fingers; the others sat facing him.
He seemed now to be a changed man--almost a judge; and the fingers thrummed on the glass as they had done during the conference with Wratslav and Ivan.
Old husband drew sounds from his horrible rabab, sharper than the sting of remorse, and Xenobi and the Giraffe each thrummed a tarabuka until thought the plaster would peel from the wall.
As one of those present played on the piano, the tambourine was played in the curtained space and thrown over the curtain; bells were rung; the guitar was thrummed a little.
Mrs. Keeler drawing the curtain from over the toes of the medium's boots, to show where his feet were; the guitar was thrummed a little.
Her four heavy masts, denuded of canvas, described wild arcs across the grey skies, while the wind shrieked and thrummed in halliards and wire stays, and clanking chains and chafing parrals added their notes to the general pandemonium.
The well-made sails were full with the wind, and it thrummed in the rigging and under the booms, while the foam from the sharp bows hissed and bubbled to loo'ard and raced aft to mingle with the wake astern.
The winds without blew gustily and filled the air with sounds like a stream in flood, the traffic clattered noisily over the causeway, the car itself thrummed and rattled; but the voices of the two were hushed.
It was while the girl thrummed idly at the strings that a vague sound floated down to her with the momentary emphasis born of a fickle wind.
Her soul as yet was no frayed and listless lute, thrummed into discords by the bony hand of care.
And still keeping his eyes fixed on Gillian he thrummed and sang-- Toad, toad, old toad, What are you spinning?
Yet direct me to the orchard," repeated Martin Pippin, and thrummed his lute a little.
Pratt softly thrummed his strings, musing on his discoveries.
A volley of stones thrummed and boomed the wire mosquito nettings that protected the windows.
During the next few days, the Xanadu thrummed upriver, keeping to broad channels instead of short-cuts between islands.
She laughed, and fell into nonsense quotation, as she thrummed lightly on the table-cloth with her slim fingers.
A wizardry of night and softness settled like a benediction, and from the dark door of the house stole the quaint folklore cadence of a rudely thrummed banjo.
Jose, while he thrummed a delightful accompaniment on the piano.
She was lithe and graceful, and as she thrummed on the guitar with her slender, brown fingers her ragged dress and rough shoes faded into insignificance.
Happily there came a lull, and during it the ropes were got over the ship's bows, and dragged on until the part where the leak existed was reached, when the thrummedsail was hauled under the bottom, and firmly secured.
Scarcely had the thrummed sail been got under the ship, than it began to blow as hard as ever.
You may say what ye plaise, but before a sail could bethrummed an' passed under her keel, she'll be many fathoms down into the depths of the ocean.
The only way of doing this was by getting a thrummed sail under the ship's bottom.
While most of the fresh hands went to the pumps the rest got up another sail, which, having beenthrummed like the first, was passed under the ship's bottom.
The anchors were next cut away from the bows, and now the attempt was made to get the thrummed sail under the ship's bottom.
Mrs. Keeler drew away the curtain from over the toes of the Medium's boots, to show where his feet were; the guitar was thrummed a little.
The beautiful voice throbbed away into silence, and the mandolin jarred and thrummed upon the floor.
She picked up the mandolin with a swish of its red ribbons, and laid it upon the piano, where it quivered and thrummed again like a living thing, awaking weird echoes from the instrument on which it rested.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thrummed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
