Used in a Sentence

buzzing

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for buzzing.

Editorial note

You effectively eliminate the only downside of buzzing early since contestants would get to hear the entire question regardless.

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Quick take

The sound produced by something that buzzes.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of buzzing gathered in one view.

noun

The sound produced by something that buzzes.

adjective

(UK, slang) Very happy; full of joyful excitement.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for buzzing.

adjective

(UK, slang) Very happy; full of joyful excitement.

Example sentences

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You effectively eliminate the only downside of buzzing early since contestants would get to hear the entire question regardless.

2

Exercising helps flush out nervous energy, that knee-tapping, pencil-chewing, frenetic buzzing that tends to keep me up worrying at night.

3

It doesn't matter as much when things are buzzing, but it becomes important during downturns like after 2000 or after 2008.

4

Most of these patents are like bees without stingers - still buzzing and spinning around, but harmless and soon to die.

5

Yeah i was wondering why everyone was buzzing about it now, until i noticed that it had been re-published on their.com site.

6

Knowing that there's always some innovation on the way keeps this place buzzing.

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Because I guarantee if you did that, you'd have people buzzing in as soon as Alex opened his mouth.

8

Even on an aesthetic level, it will be amazing to look at the city sky and see hundreds of lights buzzing about, blade-runner style.

9

When your mind is buzzing, it's because it thinks it needs to work through problems or solidify memories before it shuts down for the night.

10

In some spots i the room I can hear a really high pitched buzzing noise.

11

Deterministic geek-buzzing about content (triggering the network-reading effect): checked.

12

Graphene and topological insulators have the solid-state community buzzing.

Quote examples

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As long as you can be consciously aware of the buzzing or electric shocks, no matter how tiny, you will go ahead and develop the "direction sense".

2

"But blogs are buzzing this week about what two Symantec researchers * have called the first harmful computer program to strike specifically at Mac." 3.

3

(Answering "incorrectly" that they can read my messages was how I didn't make it on the support team.) Then there is MTProto which everyone is buzzing about but which isn't even supported in all clients.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use buzzing in a sentence?

You effectively eliminate the only downside of buzzing early since contestants would get to hear the entire question regardless.

What does buzzing mean?

The sound produced by something that buzzes.

What part of speech is buzzing?

buzzing is commonly used as noun, adjective.