(1) As he sits in Athens wondering when the International Monetary Fund is going to deliver another bailout, George Papandreou might be tempted to hum a few lines of Tired of Waiting for You.
(2) Although the cranes swing, much of the new living zones now being created range from the ho-hum to the outright catastrophic.
(3) Mononuclear cells were fractionated from human cord blood by affinity chromatography on immobilized peanut agglutinin, as previously described (Rosenberg et al., Hum Immunol 7:67, 1983).
(4) Managers scurry back and forth across the Atlantic with advance copies handcuffed to their wrists, critics are required to sign contracts promising that they will not so much as hum the contents to their nearest and dearest, and the music press acts as if the world is about to witness the most significant release since Nelson Mandela's.
(5) He shook his head from side to side, whispering or humming the same three-note tune.
(6) The apolipoprotein E3-Leiden variant has been shown to be associated with familial dysbetalipoproteinemia (FD) in a dominant manner (Havekes et al., Hum Genet 1986;73:157-163).
(7) The politics of football have long been accompanied by a background hum of corruption claims, but in recent times it has become a cacophony.
(8) Selling its own phone would mean it could make itself the background hum of many peoples' lives everywhere – and show adverts and collect data on its own terms.
(9) His father, who was fond of humming the popular ballad Keep Right on to the End of the Road, lost his job in the great depression of the early 1930s.
(10) Hollow-eyed children beg outside restaurants and cafes that hum with the chatter of shisha-smoking customers.
(11) Her hums on early awards buzz Speaking of Oscar contenders, it will be fascinating to see how Spike Jonze's latest movie pans out.
(12) That robs astronomy of one of its key recruiting tools: the chance to plant young scientists under the dish and let its hum capture their imagination.
(13) Four hours from the Zurich madhouse, Uefa’s base on the shores of Lake Geneva in Nyon hums with calm purpose.
(14) He made politics great again in the sense of getting people to care instead of allowing it to hum softly in the background.
(15) I am not sure that a lucrative career in rape gags is more helpful than a failed one, but the rape hum seems eternal.
(16) "I wouldn't say this agreement was entirely ho-hum but it does not address the big ticket issues.
(17) And I think Stephen hummed and hah-ed in an embarrassed fashion.
(18) humming, whistling) for atonal melody, but that non-musicians could not use any effective strategies for melody coding.
(19) At the moment the noise is like a city humming away.
(20) Without the faintest idea what I was humming along to, my mother left me to my obsession with nothing more than a shrug.
Humped
Definition:
(a.) Having a hump, as the back.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 6-month-old Appaloosa colt had a deviation of the premaxilla and nasal septum as well as a dorsal hump of the nasal bone and maxillomandibular malocclusion.
(2) One of the most annoying complications of rhinoplasty is the supra-tip hump (pollybeak).
(3) The visible rib humps from 30 scoliotic patients were measured in the form of plotted curves by a group of paramedical and medical staffs.
(4) (3) The nucleus centralis lateralis receives fibers from most parts of the nucleus lateralis including the "dorsolateral hump".
(5) After exposure to fast neutrons the yield of translocations follows a humped curve with a maximum of chromosome exchanges after exposure to 100 rad.
(6) The medialmost D0 projects onto the dorsolateral hump; D1 projects more laterally onto the main, magnocellular part of the ND, and D2 projects ventrally onto the parvicellular subdivision of the ND.
(7) During the restitution of S2, an early biphasic upward hump was present at short DIs.
(8) The corticonuclear fibers to the dorsolateral hump and lateral nucleus originate from the medial and lateral portions of the lateral cortex, respectively.
(9) Successively: correction of the dorsum (resection of the bony hump) with incorrect nasofrontal angle, residual hump, "saddle nose"; lateral osteotomy and bony step; transversal and paramedian osteotomy with possibility of "open roof" so as residual deviation.
(10) To test the hypothesis that a curve with two peak values (double hump) recorded by laser Doppler flowmetry over the skin of the lower limb during postocclusive hyperaemia reflects pathological vascular resistance in the aortoiliac segment.
(11) An ongoing controversy is whether the I gamma hump component triggers calcium release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum or arises as a consequence of the release.
(12) A prospective study to investigate changes in the rib hump or rib deformity after correction of the lateral curvature in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis is reported.
(13) A small step or hump nearly coincident with S1 was observed in 10 of these 16 patients.
(14) Rabbits with experimental acute serum sickness (AcSS: Group I) had focal proliferative and exudative glomerulonephritis with immune deposits, scattered subepithelial electron-dense deposits (humps), mild and transient proteinuria, normal creatinine clearance and slightly increased production of IL-1 and TNF from isolated glomeruli.
(15) In 7 normal healthy Egyptian one-humped camels aged 3-4 years, the relationships were studied between enzyme activities of lactic dehydrogenase (LDH), creatine phosphokinase (CPK), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), acid phosphatase (ACP), and cholonesterase (CHE) of serum and organs as well as between ACP and ALP and between LDH and CPK.
(16) This fused unit is permanently altered when the hump is removed.
(17) Adipocytes in the UMN and HUMP also became more numerous relative to those in the other depots following both moderate and strenuous exercise.
(18) The dose-response curves were superficially the same shape, with a peak yield of cells containing a multivalent at 4 Gy, although only in the pachytene data was there any statistically significant hump.
(19) A quantitative analysis of Ca2+ and current signals during the hump suggested that the luminal membrane contained high densities of K(+)- and Cl(-)-selective channels, roughly 10 times higher than those found in the basolateral domain.
(20) Only the rib hump of thoracic and thoracolumbar are correlated with evolutivity.