(v. i.) To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. Hence: To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice.
(v. t.) To sound forth by buzzing.
(v. t.) To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an under tone; to spread, as report, by whispers, or secretly.
(v. t.) To talk to incessantly or confidentially in a low humming voice.
(v. t.) To sound with a "buzz".
(n.) A continuous, humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones, or of a general expression of surprise or approbation.
(n.) A whisper; a report spread secretly or cautiously.
(n.) The audible friction of voice consonants.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moses buzzed about with intent, while Cesc Fàbregas relished a forward role tucked just behind Costa.
(2) Walcott buzzed in a free-kick and when this dropped to Elneny his 20-yard effort was saved superbly by Jakupovic.
(3) "If I hear my phone buzz, I have to pull it out and look at it, and then I'm totally distracted...
(4) These faux pas by the Institutional Revolutionary party candidate, famous for his good looks and telenovela star wife, at the international literary festival in Guadalajara, left Mexico's social and mainstream media buzzing with mockery.
(5) Absorbed into the bloodstream through the lip, Snus has a softer but longer nicotine buzz than cigarettes.
(6) Internet chatrooms have been buzzing with messages condemning Tokyo's response, with some calling for a boycott of Japanese goods.
(7) There is already a buzz about the place and by eleven the players are already in the dressing room, just next to the manager's office.
(8) Medical effectiveness initiatives, outcomes research, and practice guidelines--the new buzz words for the 90s--will change the way health care services are delivered and allocated.
(9) Yet even after Buzz ran aground, the row with Facebook went on - and in retrospect, it's obvious that Mark Zuckerberg didn't trust Google not to be trying to build its own social network and using Facebook's social graph to do it.
(10) Live streaming from the main stages enabled viewers to watch sets in real time – and combining it with social media meant you could see where the buzz was and flip over to see the best music.
(11) Places such as Manchester, Newham, Lewisham and Liverpool buzz with desire to do things better.
(12) "I get back late from all these try-out gigs and the buzz keeps me awake.
(13) On the other hand, well: tablets, smartphones, DVD players, advanced sex toys that do something other than just buzz, cars that don't smell like foot disease, an abundance of stuff that makes life easier and more interesting.
(14) A few days later, the line stretched round the block for last year's SXSW buzz band Haim .
(15) The buzz won Charli a deal with Asylum, a subsidiary of major label Atlantic, but she didn't release another thing until 2011.
(16) With his dying breath, Fred Ery identified Floyd "Buzz" Fay as his murderer.
(17) If I'm in a good mood it looks like Buzz Lightyear.
(18) With the music, as in this summer’s Roman season: the composer Claire van Kampen , licensed by Globe boss Dominic Dromgoole, worked around the idea that the Romans imported their festive music, and its instruments, from North Africa, and got hold of Moroccan and rustic Spanish drums and buzz-booming shawms .
(19) He went on to conduct The Book Programme (1974-80), and buzzed around the world for Robinson's Travels (1977-79).
(20) Her hums on early awards buzz Speaking of Oscar contenders, it will be fascinating to see how Spike Jonze's latest movie pans out.
Gadfly
Definition:
(n.) Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over successive failed presidential campaigns Ron Paul turned from laughable outsider to respected gadfly to the head of an enthusiastic grassroots conservative movement whose overwhelmingly young followers have a major impact on the Republican party.
(2) The erstwhile MP and professional gadfly has published a blogpost decrying "privilege checking", and longing to return to a species of "reality-based" feminism where everyone would stop bothering her about class, race and money.
(3) If you are being slightly less generous, you might agree with the verdict of an internal Tory document that called them "cranks, gadflies and extremists" .
(4) Twain's cult of personality – as lecturer and novelist, commentator and social critic, travel and humour writer, gadfly and avuncular curmudgeon – was carefully judged, his folksy humour natural, but strategically deployed.
(5) For the German media Samaras is the fly in the ointment, the gadfly who has put personal ambition before national interest.
(6) The prevalence of talent show products has contributed to this gadfly pop existence, even if they did produce acts with the staying power of Girls Aloud and Leona Lewis.
(7) This article traces Codman's career as an innovator and political gadfly at the Massachusetts General Hospital during the first three decades of this century, and examines the development and demise of his end-result system.
(8) Then Cruz was considered a conservative gadfly who would have to claw and fight rivals to be the favorite among even his Tea Party base but Cruz fended off rival after rival to win the Iowa caucuses and become the conservative standard-bearer in the field.
(9) Let's count some of the more vocal opponents – Oumar Mariko, Mali's perpetual gadfly; former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin, who argues that it would be better to wait for the lions to lie down with the lambs; Paris-based Camerounian novelist Calixthe Beyala, who argues that those Malians who would prefer not to live under a crude faux-Islamic vigilantism suffer from a plantation mentality; and some truly reprehensible protesters at the French embassy in London, who refuse to believe that most Malians are Muslims and don't need religious instruction from Salafists.
(10) The Buk, known to the US military as an SA-11 Gadfly, can reach targets up to altitudes of 46,000 feet.
(11) Ukip, a party once dismissed as being filled with " cranks and gadflies ", poses a real threat to the main parties at the forthcoming elections.
(12) I said it far less succinctly than Greene did, though, in a long, digressive blog post in which I echoed concerns raised by a piece that had recently run in the magazine n+1: that Gawker, once a useful gadfly that irritated the powerful, had become a bully more powerful than the institutions it mocked.
(13) They sound a bit like those American gadflies the Bravery, and that is not good at all.
(14) "We are big enough and ugly enough to put up with being called fruitcakes or loonies or gadflies.
(15) Dempster, whose gossip column appeared in the Daily Mail from 1971 to 2003, a remarkable innings, knew his core market: Middle England moralists who loved a lord, panted over a princess, doted on a duchess and became horny over an heiress - especially when any of these social gadflies flattered the readers' own lives by having disastrous affairs, getting divorced, taking drugs, fighting in nightclubs, going to jail, and generally provoking self-satisfied tut-tuts.
(16) From political unknown he has become the gadfly tormenting the big players in the EU.
(17) A giant picture of a fetus was displayed onstage for a few minutes and rightwing gadfly Frank Gaffney warned of the dangers of an electromagnetic pulse attack on the United States.
(18) His remarks prompted an angry response from Mr Kilroy-Silk, the UKIP candidate in the east Midlands, who was infuriated by an internal Tory document which described UKIP members as "little Englanders", "cranks and political gadflies".