BUZZ in a Sentence

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For BUZZ, below is one of 74 sentences:
Despite his desire to achieve nirvana, the young Buddhist found that even the buzzing of a fly could distract him from his meditation.

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 Meanings and Examples of BUZZ
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
buzz
 n.  confusion of activity and gossip; sound of rapid vibration
Classic Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
1  But she clung to her dull black dresses and her veil, knowing that if she changed them for colors without waiting several more years, the town would buzz even more than it was already buzzing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  Sometimes her sisters seemed far away and tiny and their incoherent voices came to her like the buzz of insects.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
3  But all the previous criticism of her conduct was as nothing compared with the buzz of gossip that now went through the town.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  The last part of his speech was lost in a faint sibilant buzz that went through the gathering, an angry beelike buzz.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
5  She began to rip the spangles from the frame, listening absently to the buzz of talk which rose and fell with the coming and going of Miss Haines's active figure.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
6  A buzz of content filled the air.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
7  Late at night, a step on the wooden porch, heard through her confusion of sleep; the storm-door opened; fumbling over the inner door-panels; the buzz of the electric bell.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
8  There was no sound but the high, singsong buzz of wild bees and the sunny gurgle of the water underneath.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
9  A whizz, a buzz rose from the bird-buzzing, bird-vibrant, bird-blackened tree.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
10  Clifford resented the interference: but he made his engine buzz like a blue-bottle.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
11  Next there could be heard the baritone buzz of a holly tree.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
12  I know that everything was turning round, and the words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my ear.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
13  All you hear is buzz, buzz, buzz.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
14  I shall answer for it and not you, and you'd better not buzz about here till you get hurt.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVI
15  In the noblemen's hall there was an incessant movement and buzz of voices.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XXII
Example Sentence:
1  Still, despite the robust growth, if you listen closely to the analysts and bankers, you can pick up a low buzz of concern over some areas of the economy.
2  There was a buzz of gratification from time to time during the reading, accompanied by whispered ejaculations of "How sweet!" "How eloquent!" "So true!" etc.
3  Their buzz of activity led me to look around for some evidence of a beefy security detail but if any were there, they were invisible.
4  Apple's rivals want to benefit from its magic, hoping that its long awaited new smartwatch will finally conjure demand for wearable technology that has so far generated more buzz about its potential than actual sales.
5  Everyone knows that bees buzz around flowers in their quest for nectar; but scientists have now learned that flowers are buzzing right back - with electricity.
6  I love the buzz of a big city.
7  I've got some stuff to do at home, so I'm going to buzz off now.
8  The courtroom buzzed as the defendant was led in.
9  The Internet buzzed about the former first daughter's decision to join the Ann Arbor school after an Instagram post purportedly from her private account celebrated her acceptance.
10  The actors buzzed about in a frantic activity.
11  The bees are buzzing away among the flowers.
12  Bees were buzzing around the picnic tables.
13  Despite his desire to achieve nirvana, the young Buddhist found that even the buzzing of a fly could distract him from his meditation.
14  Dressed in a yellow and black jumper like a charismatic bumble bee, she buzzes around the stage.