[
UK
/ɐbˈʌz/
]
[ US /əˈbəz/ ]
[ US /əˈbəz/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
noisy like the sound of a bee
the room was abuzz over the latest scandal
How To Use abuzz In A Sentence
- Friday and the show hadn't started, yet the centre was abuzz.
- In the late 1990s, the industry was abuzz with plans to deregulate the markets and break up public monopolies.
- By mid-morning Twitter was abuzz with the fact that the beloved cookbook author and blogger was in town -- en plein air -- passing out french vanilla sables. Danika Boyle: Sparks From the Culinary Edge
- Even the fish appeared to be experiencing difficulties swimming against the current; and the site was abuzz in action, as jacks, snappers and groupers busily swarmed about.
- A man had been murdered that morning, and the village was abuzz.
- The blogosphere is kind of abuzz with the notion that this was a political hit on Eliot Spitzer. CNN Transcript Mar 16, 2008
- The statuesque theme continues in the vegetable garden where there are great fronds of fennel and huge clumps of Cynara Scolymus - globe artichoke, their purple thistle heads abuzz with bees.
- The township stayed abuzz after the game as Chiefs' supporters sounded their car hooters in celebration of their team's victory.
- The Indian internet community has also been abuzz with discussions on the controversy surrounding Varun Gandhi's inflammatory anti-Muslim speech and subsequent imprisonment, the incidents of shoe-throwing against Congress politicians P Chidambambaram and Naveen Jindal and BJP leader L K Advani, and the election campaigns of writer Shashi Tharoor, danseuse Mallika Sarabhai and ABN AMRO India chief Meera Sanyal. Global Voices in English » India’s First Digital Elections Evoke Strong Reactions Online
- The air was abuzz with military helicopters, airlifting injured people and equipment.