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  • noun Plural form of buzzing.

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Examples

  • Ambient brass sounds thicken into electronic buzzings and then stop dead; drum pieces with Indian-percussion booms and rocking piano figures develop orchestral, bowed-bass drones and then melodiously groove.

    Portico Quartet: Portico Quartet – review 2012

  • For the walls of rain we traced our hands like fireworks together once on, I say this poem shall stay there, for all those grand loud insect buzzings we attended to like the biggest fans in  the world, want this song to last.

    The Ubiquitous Urn 2010

  • The clinking glasses and barritone buzzings had altogether subsided.

    Inroads Emeniano Acain Somoza, Jr. 2009

  • The clinking glasses and barritone buzzings had altogether subsided.

    Inroads Jr. Emeniano Acain Somoza 2009

  • To maintain the embrace of those magic thighs, to serve the Dark Lord, the screams of the dying -- yours, mine, your children's, and those of brownish foreigners who don't even deserve a passing mention their lives are so worthless -- the screams become no more than gnats 'buzzings.

    Leonce Gaiter: Harry Potter And The Political Class 2008

  • I have stalled out my MG 1600A on a bridge high over Bayou Nezpique and in the midnight-black dark, a darkness filled with lives, buzzings, wispings, whiffings, far down below the bridge you could smell that blacked out bayou's flow, an ancient odor of prehistoric life that lived within the flow of that bayou, that bayou on that night with the invisible face--its face seen in its smell.

    Flows The Daily Growler 2006

  • Delilah turned her face up and let the sun warm it as she listened to the soft buzzings of insects in the grass, and the motion of air through the leaves of the trees.

    Something Unpredictable Barbara Chepaitis 2003

  • Delilah turned her face up and let the sun warm it as she listened to the soft buzzings of insects in the grass, and the motion of air through the leaves of the trees.

    Something Unpredictable Barbara Chepaitis 2003

  • Delilah turned her face up and let the sun warm it as she listened to the soft buzzings of insects in the grass, and the motion of air through the leaves of the trees.

    Something Unpredictable Barbara Chepaitis 2003

  • Imaginary buzzings also added to her bewilderment.

    A Simple Soul 2003

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