Above us we heard the buzzing sound of slow-moving unmanned aerial surveillance drones circling the sky. |
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The showgrounds were buzzing yesterday as horse exhibitors washed and shampooed their charges ahead of today's judging classes. |
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Birds twittered, flying here and there for food, buzzing around the party of travellers as they moved on, towards the horizon. |
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Scuttling, blow-dryers like power generators, buzzing, the sound of an entire building waking up. |
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It sits, not quite dead, but buzzing like a bluebottle under a pint glass, its battery acid eating away the carpet. |
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The smell of sausages sizzling, the taste of a chargrilled steak washed down with a cold beer, the sound of mozzies buzzing and cicadas singing. |
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They stay longer to explore the snow-covered streets, buzzing with skimobiles. |
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Dundee's Caird Hall, the venue for the student enterprise summit, was buzzing with undergraduates and postgrads. |
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His muscular dystrophy condition means that he is physically disabled, but inside there's this electrical storm buzzing away. |
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There were a lot of people my age in town, a lot of professional musicians were based here and it was buzzing. |
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I groaned and rolled over as some obnoxious buzzing noise interrupted my nap. |
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Your internet connection is slow as a snail and your telephone makes buzzing noises. |
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It feels like a modern Spanish tapas bar in buzzing Barcelona, except for the Neanderthal males, of course. |
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Blue orchard bees typically stay on the job despite weather that sends other bees buzzing back to their snug hives. |
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His newfound dedication to taking off some extra pounds has the front office buzzing. |
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The only sound she could hear were the flies buzzing around the Brobdingnagian piles of waste. |
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All I heard constantly was the buzzing of mosquitoes and other pesky swamp varmints. |
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The buzzing sound rose like a din in some inner ear and I thought of the bullroarers of the Australian Aborigines. |
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Watching him translate for his father, Kyle seems unfazed about his nonpareil ability, remaining nonchalant to the film crew buzzing round him. |
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The generators which had been powerless now were buzzing and singing full of energy. |
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Now that the mosquitoes are buzzing again I want something to reduce the threat of West Nile Virus. |
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There was nothing more annoying in the entire universe than the sound of a mosquito buzzing around near your ear. |
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Last night the news helicopters on the West Coast were buzzing like mosquitoes. |
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The air would take on a static charge, and you'd be able to hear your own ears buzzing. |
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The misty scene disappeared, I found out that I could breathe again, and my ears were buzzing like crazy. |
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Oh, and before all that you get paranormal phenomena for a few days and ear buzzing, as kind of a preamble. |
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The guy who wanted to sue because his ears were buzzing after a rock concert is a ridiculous example, but it shows the way people are thinking. |
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Meanwhile, the man, buzzing along on cigarettes and coffee, is also mapping his immortality on the World Wide Web. |
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In an hour I had vacated the box I called home and was buzzing along in my Camry. |
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One, Lindsey, was very quiet and helpful when asked questions by the many Montana Highway Patrol officers buzzing around. |
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She was buzzing along at mound height plus 500 feet and flew directly over me as if she knew I was there, which, of course, was impossible. |
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We've been busily buzzing around the city on weekends, perusing the papers and walking around the city, looking at potential apartments. |
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He asked if I was the pilot that was under arrest for buzzing Jones Beach and I said yes. |
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I turned just in time to see a supersonic jet disappear again, after buzzing us from 200 feet. |
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The snow had turned to slush in the streets that were buzzing with the usual activities. |
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It's the holidays, and things are buzzing with human activity, in a usually deserted sort of way. |
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The site is buzzing with activity as hundreds of workers pull out all the stops to get the centre ready for opening day. |
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Seven minutes later, we were in front of said school, which was lit up and buzzing with excitement. |
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It is a new, all-on-one-level bingo hall full of people of all ages and buzzing with atmosphere, which we have lost here at the Rialto. |
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Constantly chattering over each other, the vast room is buzzing with an infectious excitement. |
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The festival, launched four years ago, has gone from strength and the town will be buzzing with activity for the next two weeks. |
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We make suitably enthusiastic noises to the owners, and depart, buzzing with excitement. |
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The blogosphere naturally is buzzing with good commentary about this issue. |
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Great Victoria Street was buzzing with young people in stylish clothes after the opera and bars and restaurants were bursting at the seams. |
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Since then, the shrine has been buzzing with religious and social activities. |
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The halls were buzzing with activity per usual, but he didn't comprehend any of it. |
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By mid-morning, the trimmed green field in front of the fenced-in prison should be buzzing with activity. |
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The rest of the school was buzzing with excitement, but Alexandra hid her tears behind her books. |
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My head was buzzing as I tried to put myself to sleep using the familiar sound of Julian's heartbeat. |
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I was still buzzing by the time I got home and couldn't sleep as my brain ticked over with excitement. |
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Beyond the tousled hair and sexily dishevelled clothes they're buzzing, too. |
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His mind was buzzing, full with images of black boats on dark lochs and shadows flitting through trees. |
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The Bradford fighter is buzzing as he counts down the hours to the fight that will make or break his bid to crack boxing's elite. |
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In fact, the players are buzzing at the moment and I am looking forward to getting them back to business. |
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So I'm at work, and really need to get into gear because I have so much to do that my mind is buzzing. |
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For some reason I was really buzzing, I was at a fair, I hadn't been to one since the River Festival almost a year previous. |
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I didn't know what to do with myself after the show, I was buzzing, on edge, frantic. |
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If you win, you're buzzing and everyone is hyper and bouncing around the place like a bunch of kids in the playground. |
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Suddenly the silence of the morning hours was broken by a soft buzzing noise in the far distance. |
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The themes live through a language buzzing with resonance and cadence, a hallucinatory, burlesque fusion that demands to be read aloud. |
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Outside there's an incestuous D' Ove orgy going on in the D' Ovecote, hot air balloons are sailing by, bees and hang-gliders are buzzing around. |
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In spite of weeks of arduous campaigning, she is buzzing with energy and raring to get stuck in to her political career. |
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The area is buzzing with talk of American security men casing local streets, pubs and hotels. |
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They want us to feel impotent, to worship the golden calf of commercialism, dazzled and opiated by its pale buzzing glow. |
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Often, the effect is like a bird buzzing a hippopotamus, the electronics here, there and everywhere, the guitar static and sulky. |
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Estrella yawned a little, and closed her eyes, listening silently to the serene sound of birds chirping and the small insects of summer buzzing. |
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The air is full of the smell of honeysuckle, the buzzing of bees, the chirruping of bluebirds, and the sizzling of meat. |
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The banshees had arrived soon after, descending upon the gnome village, buzzing and chittering in the language of the viciously insane. |
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With a snare of some sort in one and a swarm of buzzing insects in the other, neither of the tunnels looked inviting. |
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Listen intently, and you'll hear the buzzing of mosquitoes, bees, and houseflies. |
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Around midnight there was the all-too-familiar buzzing sound of the Garda helicopter hovering over the neighbourhood again. |
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We boarded the Moorsbus at Cropton, leaving the village buzzing with a group of 30 or more ramblers off to do a local circuit. |
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Moreover, after citral was introduced, a strong buzzing was heard inside the colonies. |
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Earlier this week, the work cafeteria was buzzing with the clamour of the morning rush. |
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Baltinglass Mart was buzzing with activity last week as they hosted their 28th annual fatstock show and sale. |
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That pattern swells to a buzzing mass of sound so dense that it seems to comprise a single melodic entity. |
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Players fizzed around the pitch like annoyed wasps, buzzing after the ball. |
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In the cool of the evening I made my way back to the Ramblas, and took up station among the buzzing crowds for the Giants' Parade. |
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Even an alarm clock buzzing right beside her head or a horn blowing near her ear wouldn't make her twitch or cause even the slightest flinch. |
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Women fluttered among buzzing auto-rickshaws and brake-screeching scooters. |
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The students were buzzing and there was a long queue of eager beavers waiting for their turn. |
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In addition, the park is buzzing with insect life and is regionally important for the high numbers of dragonflies and damselflies. |
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Such was the constant buzzing around our ears that at first we were deaf to the sound of inbound propellers. |
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I have been giving some thought as to how the annoying buzzing sound of model aircraft can be, to other listeners, a mere gentle drone? |
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Containing 11 recent, life-size portrait statues of physically deformed individuals, the show had New York critics buzzing for weeks. |
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Never, not even in the glory days of 1990 and Glasgow City of Culture, have I seen Tramway so buzzing with life. |
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If we spent money on hypocrisy detectors as well as anthrax detectors, they would be buzzing. |
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Around three months later the grapevine was buzzing with the news that Leanne was pregnant. |
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The electricity between these two were just buzzing with excitement and with dangerous passion. |
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Southampton dock was positively buzzing, the mix of different accents and the curses of the dockworkers sounded like music to her delicate ears. |
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All the while a paraglider was buzzing the complex, in direct contravention of the air exclusion zone at Lucas Heights. |
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The generator's owner, a frail old Korean man, was warming his hands in the buzzing machine's exhaust. |
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Noises such as the drone of cicadas, the crackling of branches, flies buzzing, and the calls of birds had drowned out in her thoughts. |
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We were silent for a few moments, the drone of the lesson buzzing like a fly in my ears. |
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The melodies are almost invariably composed with buzzing, pleasantly grating synthesizer drones. |
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I was buzzing, bubbling, and hyperactive as I anticipated what was to follow. |
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It is a cacophonous six-piece party-punk ensemble of buzzing guitars, nasty vocals, washboards, bugles, and cowbells. |
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Although people had been on watch and the watchkeepers were very, very tired, everyone was up and buzzing. |
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The drama of the event had the staffers buzzing but drew shrugs from the children. |
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Male asities enlarge their wattles when they display to females and their outer primary feathers produce a buzzing sound when they fly. |
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If they can demonstrate that this is achievable they could be entitled to more quota to keep the economy buzzing. |
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The silence drew out, raining down on her ears endlessly until it grew its own sound, a buzzing like a radio wave. |
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Suddenly the whole room's just buzzing and names and addresses are being exchanged. |
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In both the older and newer segments, the mix has some type of background noise, from crackling to hissing to buzzing to high-pitched whines. |
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A visit to the buzzing town of Ibiza provides a nice contrast to the wholesome yoga scene. |
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I woke up to my alarm clock buzzing in my ear, it took me a few minutes to realize where I was. |
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At half time the crowd was buzzing but soon after the break the champ landed the knockout blow. |
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Other buzzing entrepreneurs would zoom up and buy your rejects to peddle at flea markets. |
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It has something to do with the book reviewing climate and the endless din buzzing around readers and publishers alike. |
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The man rapidly typed a code into a security system and a loud buzzing sound signaled the door's release. |
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By this time, alarm bells are buzzing like crazy, and I start to resign myself to the thought that I'm not getting it back. |
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The audible ringing was still echoing through her head, buzzing in her ears and making her feel as her whole life had only been a dream. |
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Happily, Rowan's efforts are as edgy and buzzing with street life as the argot he describes. |
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Hurriedly I picked up the annoying, buzzing thing and held it at arm's length. |
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We've got a vibrant club and the city is buzzing again with talk of rugby league. |
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As you finally ascend the topmost mast, a faint vertigo assails you, but the adrenaline is buzzing. |
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Apologise that if it wasn't for me then you lot would still be buzzing round like wingless flies. |
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She reports that during the intervening period, she began to hear an uncomfortable noise, a loud ringing or buzzing. |
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The only sounds were the gentle breeze rustling my curtains and the buzzing of the refrigerator. |
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Soon he found himself lulled into a light trance, a soft buzzing filling his mind. |
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His guitar is a gristly sandblast to the eardrums, buzzing over a keyed-up rhythm section, and the raw mix doesn't shave off the edges. |
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We did see several tarantula hawks buzzing past our heads and running around on the ground. |
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This former garage is always buzzing with singles, many who seem on the make. |
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The telex machine in the plant's foreign trade office was buzzing with communications from companies in Europe, America and the Far East. |
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The Yacht pub in Clontarf was buzzing at midnight last night and strong drink was being consumed at a terrific rate. |
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The news that The Royal Ballet's artistic director had resigned in September set balletomanes buzzing and journalists digging. |
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But come showtime it'll be buzzing and Sylla, as he ambles towards me on the pitchside track, cuts an impressive figure. |
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For three days and nights Florence will be buzzing with ideas and activity. |
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I crossed the threshold and re-entered the house, which was buzzing with undying activity. |
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In what I thought was a pretty charming way, I asked them what the deal with the buzzing was. |
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There were tractors ploughing the soil, many of the shrubs had been uprooted and it was buzzing with activity. |
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Here I don't have to strain to try and get rid of the buzzing and ringing tinnitus that is with me every waking hour. |
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Bulletin boards and microblogs have been buzzing all day with chatter about Google's announcement. |
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The streets have been touched up and the bars may be buzzing, but the English market, which dates from 1788, is still as Victorian as it comes. |
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And as the empty tarmac streets melt in the midday sun, it appears only the flies are buzzing. |
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The card is also irritatingly noisy when connected to the GPRS network, making those buzzing and blipping noises your mobile emits when it interferes with another phone. |
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There are bumble bees buzzing and droning around my spring flowers. |
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It's an early spring day in New York and the city is alive, buzzing with Manhattanites who have ventured out from hibernation to partake in the unseasonably warm weather. |
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The show blends contemporary jazz, tap, kwela-jive, traditional gumboot and hip-hop pantsula and will have you buzzing for the rest of the evening. |
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His body was cold with sweat, and his ears were still buzzing. |
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From the buzzing hive of contradictions that frequently scourge the truly gifted, there are strong signs that McEnroe wanted to do something entirely different. |
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After a long day, and with our ears buzzing, we were all starving. |
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With my left ear painlessly buzzing in its temporary deafness and the roof of my mouth lightly seared and tasting like steak, I retired for the evening. |
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As you can probably tell by the loud buzzing and whirring sounds your computer makes when you turn it on, the boot-up process puts a lot of strain on your system. |
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In the buzzing, blooming confusion of human choices and actions, such knowledge can be harder to pin down than many social research mavens care to admit. |
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In Jakarta, the nation's buzzing capital, he became one of Jemaah Islamiyah's most ardent deputies. |
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The glass shut out most of the noise and left my ears buzzing again. |
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I understood why that was done, but I was buzzing at the time. |
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Householders are being tormented by the buzzing wasps and businesses like restaurants and pubs are being plagued by the insects with a sting in their tail. |
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Michael's head was still buzzing from his so-called lectures. |
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I just wanted to re-establish myself and I was buzzing whenever I played. |
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The leitmotif of the new vogue in bad parenting is that keeping the marital buzz buzzing trumps the children. |
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We were ready to go on the first tee in the afternoon and we were buzzing. |
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My legs were sore and my head was still buzzing from the music. |
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After much frantic buzzing about the lot, he's located and changes his plans at the last minute. |
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As Jack slowly crept forward he heard a soft buzzing off in the corner. |
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A buzzing whirr snakes around in the middle distance refusing to be pinned down by clipped beats that pierce the foreground like so many regimented arrows. |
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In place of a clearly discernible melody, the piece evolves glacially with fuzzy smears, distorted shards, and industrial buzzing constellating around the drone. |
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Specially created foliage, flowers and trellising will recreate a classic English country garden with added sound effects such as church bells, buzzing bees and bird song. |
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Birds are tweeting, bees are buzzing, dogs are scampering, everything is coming up daffodils and I went out without socks for the first time this year. |
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Cody makes a stupid buzzing sound signaling I had gotten the answer wrong. |
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My head was still buzzing from the previous night's antics but something was nagging away at me, something deep inside that I was supposed to remember. |
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Little marine life has been attracted to the wreck, apart from the odd moray eel and scorpionfish and a shoal of cardinalfish buzzing around the cockpit. |
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So I begin polishing, Boyle begins to make preliminary drawings, and things are buzzing. |
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Friday morning at breakfast, travelers were buzzing in the elevators about why the ship was still moored instead of out at sea. |
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The NCPC is responsible to the public and they should do so without having us buzzing on about what to do. |
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Already critics are buzzing about the series, garnering necessary and positive word of mouth. |
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We had to wait a little too long to be seated, and even longer to be served, but once our overworked waitress finally arrived everything started buzzing along nicely. |
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It sounds to me like a blowfly buzzing around in a chandelier. |
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I came out buzzing, wishing I had the soundtrack to play in the car. |
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My head was buzzing, and I kept gasping for air against his lips. |
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Shopping malls and supermarkets are buzzing as consumer spending rebounds. |
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My head was buzzing, the screen was only the way I saw my uncle. |
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I have one quibble, but that's with the engineering, where the balance of the cello sonata's first movement allows the piano to dampen the cello often to mere buzzing. |
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My head was buzzing, filled with the memories of our night together. |
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Tinnitus is a condition where the sufferer hears intermittent or continuous ringing, hissing, whistling, roaring or buzzing noises in one or both ears. |
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One of my friends said a while ago that it was dangerous, but I honestly don't think masked murderers, or even unmasked ones, would bother buzzing. |
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Hearing a chirp and a buzzing sound on my right, I turned my head. |
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Of course, the loud buzzing of such drones and towels being blown away would have been a dead giveaway to the pool girls. |
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In the meantime, several distinctly unprosperous regions have reached the brink of total malarial collapse, virtually ruled by swarms of buzzing, flying syringes. |
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Scottsdale is buzzing over reports the ex-governor has purchased a million-dollar ranch. |
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Anyway, with the hopes of getting to the bottom of the house buzzing mystery, I typed up a letter to the residents of the building and dropped it in their mail slot. |
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But just as she was about to hang up and try again, the screen flashed red, the speaker clicking and buzzing disagreeably and it struggled for some kind of connection. |
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The audiences are prepared to put up with draughty village halls, broken strings, buzzing PA gear and all the other imperfections that seem to make the evenings exciting. |
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Sathe Clan Lords and their retinues had been arriving in Mainport for the past week and the town was buzzing as merchants made the most of the sudden boom in trade. |
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Foreign observers were first of all to be banned, but the tiny number that eventually made it could only descend on the polling booth for a nano-second before buzzing off. |
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The last time Nico spoke about Pippa to his friends back home in Folkestone, he was totally buzzing about her. |
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The biggest annoyance was pesky television helicopters buzzing incessantly over west side neighborhoods. |
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I couldn't swear to it, what with scissors snipping and buzzers buzzing, but I think the young lad was asking his dad why you still needed a haircut when you were going bald. |
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They listed children racing around on quad and motorbikes, noise from buzzing generators, loose horses and animal mess on pavements around the site among their complaints. |
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In five years time the laneways could be buzzing with activity. |
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The stadium was buzzing with excitement as the competitors were paraded. |
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When the ghetto blaster's on, and it's full, this place is buzzing. |
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Bugs, though not as many as there would be naturally, hung around her head in a perpetual cloud, midges and no-see-ums buzzing in her ear and sucking on her sweat. |
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My ears were buzzing, my head was pounding, people were screaming. |
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It was so hot, and there was a mosquito buzzing around my head. |
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There was a pause during which I seemed to hear the regular gentle swish of the punkah and the steady buzzing of the cicadas in the sandalwood trees. |
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Finally, the trooper got around to writing out the ticket, and as he was doing that he kept swatting at some flies that were buzzing around his head. |
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The sand martins are buzzing around and around busy feeding young. |
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The picture was so sharp I could see the flies buzzing around the animals. |
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But in the buzzing reality of daily life, bees collect from hundreds of types of plants, so whatever toxins they pick up are diluted to the point of harmlessness. |
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Morning One, December 22, 2008 The dorm was dark and quiet except for the intermittent buzzing of a faint snore or more. |
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Out came old Teenie, buzzing mad as a whole nest of wasps. Muttered awfulnesses came from her great padded bonnet. |
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I woke just in time to hear the first blowie of the day buzzing around. You know the night's over when you hear the first blowie. |
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At its most extreme it is reminiscent of the boinging and buzzing of a Jew's harp. |
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The sound of the arrows was bzzzt, bzzzt, like the buzzing of flies. I know of no more maddening noise than the singing of arrows past the ear. |
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In the center lay the broad Abbey buildings, with church and cloisters, hospitium, chapter-house and frater-house, all buzzing with a busy life. |
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A THUG who sent revellers diving for cover when he brandished a buzzing chainsaw in a pub was jailed for nine months yesterday. |
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Each morning the buzzing begins once again with a beeline of men headed to the chow hall. |
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In the hands of currently buzzing local band Breathing Room, spiritual power-pop rocks. |
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The cliffs were buzzing with action as Razorbills, Guillemots and Kittiwakes all tended to begging young. |
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Finally he began to hover in the open window of the shack, buzzing there with his furious wings, looking at me beadily, then, flash, he was gone. |
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A bunch of dimeless promoters and sponges have been buzzing around him, the kind who can smell a sucker faster than a buzzard can sight a corpse. |
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The minges and noseeums had found her now, so many of them buzzing around her head that her vision seemed to dance with black specks. |
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The sound is reminiscent of gargling, but with a more forceful, buzzing edge. |
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The biggest problem is that both stars have bit-part walk-ons buzzing around them whispering and gossiping to anyone who will listen. |
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There are bees buzzing in the comfrey, blackbirds rootling through the borders and my friend the robin singing from the silver birch. |
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Pages 6-7 SLAITHWAITE pupils are buzzing after winning PS1,000 for recycling over 100 moble phones. |
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Early morning out on the patio, a hummingbird dodges between vigas, the buzzing beat of its wings the only sound to break the stillness. |
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Researchers wonder if the need for REM sleep, with its buzzing brain activity, has something to do with that. |
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She bakes for fun and her secret recipe doodlebug cakes are so sweet and scrumptious I'm still buzzing. |
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Their buzzing can reach 90 decibels, equivalent to some power motors. |
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Christchurch remains a buzzing, thriving city,'' William said in a speech. |
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The faint buzzing, bell-like thumb pianos play out a simple pattern behind abstract scraping and dragging sounds. |
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The basement was flooded and the couch was growing mildew, so we sat outdoors in the shadows of the trees in a screened tent with deerflies and mosquitoes buzzing outside. |
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He swatted the mosquito that was buzzing around in his bedroom. |
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Dhanni Gustiana, a dental surgeon from Purworejo in Central Java, has modified a conventional dental drill by changing the buzzing sound to the music from a MP3 player. |
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In the beginning of the 16th century, Lisbon was a buzzing metropolis where people from diverse backgrounds came in search of work, glory or fortune. |
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Balletomanes are buzzing about this world premiere, full-length Will Tuckett version of the famous children's story, presented by the Sarasota Ballet Aug. |
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