How to Use buzz in a Sentence

buzz

1 of 2 verb
  • Let me buzz you out.
  • My mind is buzzing with ideas.
  • The nurse buzzed the doctor who was on duty.
  • Flies were buzzing around the picnic tables.
  • The hall buzzed with excitement as the audience waited for the show to start.
  • Ring the bell when you arrive and someone will buzz you into the building.
  • She buzzed her secretary to say she was going out for lunch.
  • The place buzzed with chirps and cries and calls and howls.
    Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 23 Mar. 2024
  • This eclipse seems to have more buzz than eclipses in the past.
    Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The cicadas were buzzing, and the heat was making waves in the air.
    Melissa Giannini, ELLE, 31 May 2023
  • The crowd buzzed with the tying and go-ahead runs on base with one out in the ninth.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Our heads were still buzzing with the echoes of Reese’s fireworks.
    Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 6 Apr. 2023
  • One thing's for certain: The phone lines will be buzzing.
    Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The doctor came ready to play, buzzing in a total of 19 times.
    The Indianapolis Star, 28 July 2023
  • Five flies buzzed about the front line deli’s handwash sink.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Guests, drunk on liquor and a good time, buzz around her as a young girl plays at her feet.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The need for more braiders buzzed throughout many of the Cameroonian circles in the area.
    Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Duran has forced his way into the longer-term plans with a buzzing bat.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 10 May 2023
  • On social media, fans are buzzing about Styles’ buzz cut in the video.
    Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Leading up to showtime, the young crowd buzzed in their seats, and the mood remained calm.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The two were buzzing around town in a golf cart, like many of the residents who stayed behind.
    Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Pexels Georgia—say it with us: the country, not the state—has buzz.
    Brett Braley, Robb Report, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The birds are chirping, the bees are buzzing, and your TV watching queue is getting longer.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The courthouse square buzzes with live music and the din of chatter on a Friday night.
    Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Nov. 2023
  • There are Christmas markets where people meet up with friends, and all the bars are buzzing.
    Lee Marshall, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Apr. 2024
  • The Franklin room was gasp-inducing even with workers buzzing around it.
    Julie Lasky, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Hayward Field was buzzing on Friday and Saturday with some of the top track and field athletes in the area.
    oregonlive, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The bell rang, and for several hours, Point Hope buzzed with the sounds of snowmachines heading out to the ice, a few miles away.
    Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2023
  • These were the draft moments that left Packers Nation buzzing.
    Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Between the Kennedys' 11 children and the constant parade of guests coming in and out, the home was always buzzing.
    Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2023
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buzz

2 of 2 noun
  • There's been a lot of buzz about the new movie.
  • We heard the buzz of the bees as we walked through the garden.
  • There's been quite a buzz about the new movie.
  • The buzz is that she turned down the job because the pay was too low.
  • There was a buzz of voices in the hall as the audience waited for the show to start.
  • When the machine is turned on, it makes a quiet buzz.
  • What's the latest buzz about their marriage?
  • The team's new players are creating a buzz among baseball fans.
  • The stadium was packed, the grass freshly shorn, a buzz in the air.
    David Gutman, Anchorage Daily News, 9 July 2023
  • The buzz: Team each year had a winning record with Dood as the setter.
    Tom Lang, Detroit Free Press, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The buzz of new products can mean the artists often feel secondary to the art.
    Gene Park, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
  • But the song kept being shared online and the buzz grew louder.
    Mike Wass, Variety, 2 May 2023
  • There was the buzz of girls gossiping, the hoots and hollers of prize-winning kids.
    Emily Ziff Griffin, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2024
  • These models have drawn buzz in cities with high home prices.
    Teo Armus, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
  • On the Israeli side of the border, the sounds include the buzz of drones and fighter jets overhead.
    Lawahez Jabari, NBC News, 15 Oct. 2023
  • The buzz around green hydrogen in Namibia right now has the feel of a startup.
    Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Nov. 2023
  • On a recent day, there was a buzz in the air at the Reeds Brook Middle School library where the chess club meets.
    David Sharp, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2023
  • There are those standout items on Amazon that truly live up to the buzz.
    Katiee McKinstry, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2024
  • All the buzz surrounding baseball’s hottest team inspired me to look back at the last time the Reds were this fun to watch: 2012.
    The Enquirer, 5 July 2023
  • Along with the buzz on Twitter, Instagram mummed with the news of Herbert’s new deal.
    Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • First came the buzz of drones, followed by the boom of explosions from the direction of the camp and the pop-pop-pop of gunfire.
    Lorenzo Tugnoli, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
  • There was a tremendous amount of buzz about a band from Arizona called Gin Blossoms.
    Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 11 Mar. 2024
  • And he’s expected to draw more buzz for the role throughout awards season.
    Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The buzz and chatter of background noise on the streets became brighter, louder, and clearer.
    Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
  • All the barre buzz piqued my curiosity and convinced me to give the modality a shot.
    Kristine Thomason, Women's Health, 17 Aug. 2023
  • And the buzz surrounding the Buffaloes isn’t ending anytime soon.
    Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Each gummy contains 20mg of broad-spectrum CBD: Enough to give a nice buzz, but low enough not to hit you too hard.
    Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
  • If Indy 5 proves to be a critical hit, that will provide the runway for word-of-mouth buzz to grow.
    Vulture, 29 June 2023
  • Don Brochu: When the train wreck hit during a test screening, there was a buzz in the audience for over two minutes.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2023
  • The firm was easing up its deal pace in 2022, but generative AI technology had the kind of buzz that exceptions could be made.
    Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2024

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