How To Use Murmuring In A Sentence
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The paramedic said he was still alive, moving his hand and murmuring something.
Times, Sunday Times
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It still whispered about, prowling in the back of his consciousness, murmuring darkly even though his body was slack with well-satisfied relief.
Captured by Moonlight
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It is zeal for the salvation of souls which makes the prelateship desired, if you will believe the ambitious man; which makes the monk, who is destined for the choir, run hither and thither, as the restless soul himself will tell you; which causes all those censures and murmurings against the prelates of the
Treatise on the Love of God
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The murmuring, fluttering sounds of the crowd echoed off the high ceilings and stone arches of the chapel.
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Then she pressed herself closer to him, murmuring something in Gaelic, and his expression dissolved in shock.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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She moved through the crowd, dodging elbows, murmuring apologies, aware of a growing panic inside.
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There was murmuring behind Myra and a snicker or two in front.
TOGETHER ALONE
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As no other person, She had the same feelings as Christ, unmurmuringly bearing the grief of a mother when She saw Her Son persecuted and suffering.
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Poluski's quip; but that fleeting glimpse had thrilled her with subtle recognition of something grasped yet elusive, of a knowledge that trembled on the lip of discovery, like a half remembered word murmuring in the brain but unable to make itself heard.
A Son of the Immortals
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Their applause turned to murmuring; their smiles turned into sullen looks.
Christianity Today
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Apart from these birds, however, we found nothing else but a lone Winter Wren murmuring softly in the brush.
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Only slight murmuring could be heard from the spectators.
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He has gone deep inside himself, his voice a low murmuring grumble.
Times, Sunday Times
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In high school, I scrawled lyrics in my physics workbook, murmuring the lines.
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There is a murmuring of applause and the players leave the field to the sound of nightingale song from the darkening sky.
Fats, Nutrition and Health
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Wilde survived his first trial with a hung jury, but, amid much murmuring amongst those in high places was convicted in his second trial.
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She buried her face into the curve of my neck and hugged me tightly, her soft voice murmuring that everything would be okay.
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The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander n abysses of solitude.
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He was murmuring sweet meaningless words in my ears.
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Murmuring softly that they must go somewhere to talk, he led her from the garden.
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With its European style cafes and restaurants, murmuring waterfalls, and lush semi-tropical vegetation, an evening stroll along its shores is a quintessential San Antonio experience.
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Health, strength, agility, and animal spirits, she may sorrowing feel diminish; but she hears everyone complain of similar failures, and she misses them unmurmuring, though not unlamenting; but of beauty, every declension is marked with something painful to self-love.
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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She has a certain versatility that enables her to use with effect a style of narration peculiar to herself, which may be called a murmuring of delicate emotional trifles, the particular gift of those to whom the social sympathies of a peaceful time are as daily food.
A Pair of Blue Eyes
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There had been murmurings from the Spanish press that Barcelona had changed their mind about signing Fabregas as he is not featuring prominently in Spain's World Cup campaign.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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Holly pulled Stella close and petted her the way she petted Amelia, stroking her sister's head and murmuring soothing noises.
JUST BETWEEN US
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There was murmuring behind Myra and a snicker or two in front.
TOGETHER ALONE
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Ah, that sounds very amiable here; but in five minutes you'll be murmuring in Miss Bandoline's ear, -- 'I've been pining to come to you this half hour, but I was obliged to take out that Miss Wilder, you see, -- countrified little thing enough, but not bad-looking, and has a rich aunt; so I've done my duty to her, but deuse take me if I can stand it any longer.'
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
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Very strikingly the 'murmurings' of the children of Israel are four times referred to in this context, and on each occasion are stated as the reason for the gift of the manna.
Expositions of Holy Scripture
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The paramedic said he was still alive, moving his hand and murmuring something.
Times, Sunday Times
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He couldn't see anything, only heard the distant murmuring of the other people in the room.
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For some time there have been murmurings of discontent over the government policy on inflation.
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Sorrow, Remorse, Indignation, Despair itself, all these like helldogs lie beleaguering the soul of the poor dayworker, as of every man: but he bends himself with free valour against his task, and all these are stilled, all these shrink murmuring far off into their caves.
Past and Present
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Murmuring soft words of comfort and nonsense, she eased herself carefully along the wall, bringing her hand along the side of the horse.
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When the moon rose we moved indoors to our beds, still sleepily murmuring.
LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
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Women in nightdresses and nightgowns and men in trousers and shorts exited their homes in the utmost haste, murmuring amongst themselves.
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For some time there have been murmurings of discontent over the government policy on inflation.
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At this point there were murmurings of approval from the experts.
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The evening primrose, with outstretched filaments, hangs a golden necklace about the welcome murmuring noctuid, while the various orchids excel in the ingenuity of their salutations.
My Studio Neighbors
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If you get closer you find that it is singing a murmuring song, full of clicks and whirring sounds, like a clock about to strike.
Times, Sunday Times
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Kneeling on the ground, he scooped it up, dusting its leatherette binding with his sleeve while murmuring an apology to the librarian.
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I wonder if my dying will be quiet, a lingering on to see that old friend the sun shining on a changeless world, to hear the rain murmuring on the last evening of my life?
A Death in the Family « Unknowing
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I can't hear a word clearly, can such murmuring be called a song?
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If you always remember the Lord's Passion, you will unmurmuringly forbear everything. - St. Dimitri of Rostov
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If you listen long enough, you could swear you hear the trees talking, murmuring to themselves as they stand stoically in the teeth of the storm.
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Amid the low, astonished murmuring of the crowd she stepped forwards to face him.
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There has been an undercurrent of murmuring in some areas along the lines of ‘who'd have thought that he could do that, being blind and everything’.
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Using sophisticated examinations, the researchers found that the obese individuals exhibited several distinct modifications in voice feature, including hoarseness, murmuring, vocal instability, altered jitter and shimmer, and reduced maximum phonation times as well the presence of voice strangulation at the end of emission.
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » The Voice of Obesity
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We would have buried him in soft summer weather under sweet arbute trees, near the shore of some murmuring Italian sea.
Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series
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There were lots of murmurings about the various auditions that have been taking place and how no-one has heard anything about callbacks.
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However there were "murmurings" that Finance Minister Trevor
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The murmuring of many voices, the upturning of many faces, then all flashes away. " twenty - three!
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There was a murmuring and a snarl from the tribespeople, a flashing of knives from the sheaths and a clicking of rusting guns.
The "Fuzziness" of Hoockla-Heen
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If you get closer you find that it is singing a murmuring song, full of clicks and whirring sounds, like a clock about to strike.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mothers sat holding their "piccaninnies" in their sable embrace, murmuring expressions of endearment, or endeavouring to hush them to rest.
The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West
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Here crystal water, accompanied by brisk birds, carefree fish and ancient trees, flows through rocks, silent one moment and murmuring the next.
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His aides scurried about, murmuring to each other in Russian.
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If you get closer you find that it is singing a murmuring song, full of clicks and whirring sounds, like a clock about to strike.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead of using music, the scenes are accompanied by real sound: incomprehensible murmuring, shouts and cries.
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There were political struggles, there was murmuring and discontent, but these disputes were well within the realm of normality.
The English Civil War: A People's History
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Many of us suffer from mild perforation, a vague feeling of disassociation, the gentle murmuring of voices in the head.
SPLITTING
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They stood beside her, large, serene people, murmuring graciously and gently inclining their handsome heads as they gave their hands to the guests; and even the youngest and most ebullient of these took on a hushed mannerliness with a closer approach to the bower.
Alice Adams
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I wonder if my dying will be quiet, a lingering on to see that old friend the sun shining on a changeless world, to hear the rain murmuring on the last evening of my life?
A Death in the Family « Unknowing
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Some murmuring continued, wondering the wisdom of bringing up the delicate issue so early.
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Now that Villanueva is logging major minutes and simply getting it done, it's small consolation to recall that I was far from alone in murmuring, "What was that?" on draft day.
USATODAY.com - Fantasy Focus: Say hello to the 'Sorry' Six
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I heard curses and a lot of murmuring from the other end.
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Ferik lost her control and hung her head, murmuring in a dead melancholy tone,
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This prompted some murmurings of agreement but also hostility from several people.
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Their applause turned to murmuring; their smiles turned into sullen looks.
Christianity Today
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The water rushed over and around the smooth stones and rock ledges that made up the creek bed, making small leaps and splashes, and murmuring constantly.
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He has gone deep inside himself, his voice a low murmuring grumble.
Times, Sunday Times
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At first, there were faint murmurings, barely audible even within the row, and self-conscious answers from the team leader.
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With its European style cafes and restaurants, murmuring waterfalls, and lush semi-tropical vegetation, an evening stroll along its shores is a quintessential San Antonio experience.
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The green plains becked, the murmuring streams sang until the heart of
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916
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like murmuring waves
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A hopeless task; but they continue at it unmurmuring, giving their bodies without stint, as once they gave their labour, to the fields and the sea.
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I can close my eyes and hear them tinkling yet, sixty years after, and feel the pine-needles under my knees, and smell the wood smoke mingling with the musky perfume of her hair and the scent of the wild flowers outside her bower ... the soft lips teasing my ear, murmuring "Make my bells ring again, pinda-lickoyee* (* Literally," white-eye "; a white man ....)
Isabelle
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I wade chest-high in bleached ryegrass murmuring in the wind, and spy down the rugged coast of California.
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(Thank Christ for that, one hears oneself murmuring, even though Amis would have reproved the incorrect use of the word "decimate" by anyone else.)
The Man of Feeling
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Perhaps what also appeals to us is the ability to escape the humdrum, routine, everyday boredom and frustration just by murmuring a spell.
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I'd be deluding myself if I said that there were no bad points, but at least with these organisations there were never any murmurings about alleged corruption or being self serving.
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I sit on the bank and listen to the night birds, the whirr of mossies and the old ladies' soft murmurings.
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My cousin's wife sat in the corner, a daughter on either side, her arms around their shoulders, murmuring prayers softly.
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`They keep putting us off with murmurings of entrepreneurs and quick-buck merchants -- yuppie treason, someone called it.
THE LAST RAVEN
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Brecht acknowledges as much when he rather bluntly insists, against Eisler's alleged murmuring about the poems 'mere occasionality or jottedness, on the Hollywoodelegien's compressed monumentality and gravitas: "these are full-scale poems" and "in fact the compositions are probably really important as music too" (Bertolt Brecht Journals 238) .24
Intervention & Commitment Forever!: Shelley in 1819, Shelley in Brecht, Shelley in Adorno, Shelley in Benjamin
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I picked him up, placed him on my lap and wrapped the towel around him, murmuring sweet things to him, petting him.
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For Canadians, I heard on the news murmurings from the Albertan farmers about starting to use corn to feed beef to make for cheaper meat.
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Why The Amount of Food Eaten is as Important as the Amount That is Not
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The sympathy in that murmuring voice, the caress in her hair, that delicate scent propelled them.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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I don't know if Tony and Casey spoke but I did hear some murmuring before I fell asleep.
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“‘With sandals beaten from the crowns of kings,’” Leo added, murmuring the words reverently, loving them with his lips as his lips formed them and uttered them.
CHAPTER XXIX
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In the silence, I could hear Jessica murmuring to herself in her sleep.
THE EXECUTION
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It was a relief to just slip by in the darkness, no obligation to draw his knife, drop into the hole and silence the enemy's murmurings.
AMAGANSETT
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There is a murmuring of applause and the players leave the field to the sound of nightingale song from the darkening sky.
Fats, Nutrition and Health
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There was a pause, whilst from afar came that strange low sound of thousands of men murmuring, which is so akin to the booming of the waves upon a rocky shore.
"Unto Caesar"
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The audience was murmuring, but Gwion continued with his speech.
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On the steps I stood still and looked round: long storm-clouds were creeping heavily over the grey sky; a dark-brown bush was writhing in the wind, and murmuring plaintively; the yellow grass helplessly and forlornly bowed down to the earth; flocks of thrushes were fluttering in the mountain-ashes among the bright, flame-coloured clusters of berries.
The Jew and other stories
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The 'murmurings' are not against men but against God.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
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There was murmuring behind Myra and a snicker or two in front.
TOGETHER ALONE
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She was greeted by mingled snores and murmuring.
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When his bronze statue was erected, there were dark murmurings about why the great man had been planted with his back to the sea, a singularly inappropriate position for a noble Hawaiian waterman?
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The move has provoked public outcry from bar owners and thousands of waiters, dancers and bar girls, as well as disgruntled murmurings from late-night boozers.
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Master as a brother, close to his heart and thoughts, her coming did at once remove him to a distance from me, so that I looked on the pair as if the dais were part of some other world than this, and they, pledging each other up there and murmuring in foreign tongues and playing with glances, as two creatures moving through a play or pisky tale without care or burden of living, and yet in the end to be pitied.
Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts
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In the background, behind the murmuring and brash conversations that were held in the room, the faint lyrics of a rock song he had heard before were drowned out by the scoffs, taunts and laughing of the foul company the tavern housed.
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Not precisely a joyless life nor a life lived in negation of God; only a torpid, base life of mostly unmurmuring content, unfit in the main for such a being as man in such a world as this.
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There were the usual murmurings about congestion snarling up the M8 which had delayed some making the trip from Edinburgh to the Glasgow Hilton.
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The murmuring of the wuthering winds that blew across the moors came to my ears.
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She was murmuring in his ear.
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I am so caught up in thinking about the stark contrast that I don't hear the voices murmuring softly behind the door.
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ThinkProgress was at the speech and observed attendees of the conference murmuring and shaking their heads in disapproval:
Think Progress » Conservative Activists Rebel Against Fox News: Saudi Ownership Is ‘Really Dangerous For America’
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The rest of the sentence like the rest of the article: "He also loves the people, saying ,'They're kind and they're gentle and they're modest and they're slow'" is standard travel-section cliché, but the word murmuring stands out: have you ever heard a fire murmur?
Languagehat.com: MURMURING?
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There is a murmuring of applause and the players leave the field to the sound of nightingale song from the darkening sky.
Fats, Nutrition and Health
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You will have just the sound of the wilderness, the wind murmuring through the trees and the sound of your reel as another big fish bends your stick while you and other members of your family who fish enjoy some great sport.
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The term 'emergency' is being used in a fast and loose fashion to cover yet more indecisive murmurings around the Greek bailout," he added in emailed comments.
MarketWatch.com - Top Stories
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His own faith came from sunnier lands, and his romerías recall, rather, the splendid church pageants of Seville, Montserrat, and Loreto, or the autumn pilgrimage to Montevergine when Naples spills its vivid multitudes in murmuring thousands across the corn fields of Campania.
Pilgrimage with La Virgen de Zapopan from "A House in the Sun" by Dane Chandos
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The crusaders deployed and made no demonstration as they trudged unmurmuringly over the hills of sand unadorned by a patch of vegetation.
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I am like the lamb of man soon finished, the singer hen suffering the unlaid egg, stupefied by the easy murmuring of twilight.
The wicked daughter
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There was a good deal of murmuring and caucussing among the men, but they concluded that there was a man named Toombs, and that he meant what he said.
Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage
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A spokesman for the abbey said Gorbing had felt it necessary to apologise and explain because there had been "murmurings" in the Somerset town.
Glastonbury abbey apologises over Nicolas Cage trailer
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There were political struggles, there was murmuring and discontent, but these disputes were well within the realm of normality.
The English Civil War: A People's History
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`They keep putting us off with murmurings of entrepreneurs and quick-buck merchants -- yuppie treason, someone called it.
THE LAST RAVEN
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Murmuring to me softly, his confiding smile and the concerned wrinkles on his brow creating gentle reassurance, Vora explained.
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But our "murmurings," if any there were, did not avail, as did those of the Israelites, "to fill the camp.
The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson
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She saw their lips move, and their gestures, and blurred details in their faces, but only faint murmuring of their low voices.
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The repetition of scarcity of water is not wonderful; the recurrence of the murmurings is the sad proof of the unchanged temper of the people, and the repetition of the miracle is the merciful witness of the patience of God.
Expositions of Holy Scripture
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`They keep putting us off with murmurings of entrepreneurs and quick-buck merchants -- yuppie treason, someone called it.
THE LAST RAVEN
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Then he is envious, covetous, jealous and mistrustful, timorous, sordid, outwardly dissembling, sluggish, suspicious, stubborn, a condemner of women, a close liar, malicious, murmuring, never contented, ever repining.
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As I walked down at this place I was walled on both sides by those inaccessible high rocky barren hills wch hangs over ones head in some places and appears very terrible, and from them springs many Little Currents of water from the sides and Clefts, wch trickle down to some Lower part where it runs swiftly over the stones and shelves in the way, wch makes a pleasant Rush and murmuring noise, and Like a snowball is Encreased by Each spring trickling down on either side of those hills, and so descends into the bottoms wch are a moorish ground in wch in many places the waters stand, and so forme some of those Lakes as it did here.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary
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He reached the open space in front of the house and once more found there the same murmuring palms, the same rubblework benches with seats and backs of flowered tile that he knew so well.
The Torrent Entre Naranjos
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I'd like to go back, and I'd like the place to myself for a few minutes, alone, without the braying tour guides and murmuring tourists.
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“I am sensible,” William Fairfax told him in May, “such a medley of undisciplined militia must create your various troubles,” but, like Caesar, Washington should expect to suffer “fatigues, murmuring, mutinies, and defections.”
George Washington’s First War
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Scotland by way of Cocklawfoot, murmuring to himself, '_an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth_.'
Border Ghost Stories
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I made Ellaline take off a small, round butter plate she had on, which was ugly in itself, though somehow it looked like a saint's halo on her; and murmuring compliments on "madam's" hair, the siren codfishes tried on one hat after another.
Set in Silver
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But he was puzzled very much by a strange murmuring noise, which followed them all the way.
The Water Babies
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The noise downstairs escalated quickly from whispers and murmuring voices to sobs and wails.
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Although the empty buildings on the now derelict structure are silent by day, they come noisily alive on winter nights with the chirps, whistles, and varied murmurings of starlings - tens of thousands of them.
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For some time there have been murmurings of discontent over the government policy on inflation.
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Although the package was approved by the authority, there were still murmurings of discontent among union officials.
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He approached him as if to speak; but the recluse anticipated his purpose, murmuring in stifled tones, from beneath the fold in which his head was muffled, and which sounded like a voice proceeding from the cerements of a corpse, — “Abide, abide — happy thou that mayest — the vision is not yet ended.”
The Talisman
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The crowd grumbled, but oblivious to their disgruntled murmurings, Yahja hugged Yeshuah.
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Now the aproned man gently pulled the bags away, murmuring somethingI couldnt understand the Flemish.
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Drunk on his own chivalry, Ashurst went on murmuring.
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Instead of using music, the scenes are accompanied by real sound: incomprehensible murmuring, shouts and cries.
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Lauren held his peace, flattening his palm over the strings of his gittern so that not even a breath of draft would set them murmuring.
Oathblood
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Such is the spirit of meek and unmurmuring submission in which we ought to receive the dispensations of God, however severe and afflictive.
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Especially if the city is older than time, built on the slopes of an uneasily slumbering volcano, atop murmuring catacombs, and the eldritch ruins where men fear to tread loom over the unclimbed and unclimbable far side of the volcano, and strange musics or shrieks of nonhuman laughter ring across the ashy slopes when the moon is dark, or, in the case of Mars, moons.
MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel
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He pushed it and as he did, the murmuring stopped, the sound of chatter around him came to a dead silence.
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The gathering in the great hall of the Lateran was a multicolored, murmuring blur.
The Saracen: The Holy War
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Murmurings were that another student planned a pump-and-dump operation over the summer.
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Nat disappeared from view as she unbridled her horse, quiet words murmuring in the air between them for a moment, too low for Cole to understand.
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She paces the room with her baby close to her chest, murmuring quietly against her ear to pacify her.
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Privately, I've heard quite a bit of murmuring and muttering about the way this affects the day-to-day running of the club.
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Before the end of the year there was a lot of murmuring about the holiday shopping season being subpar.
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Criticism murmuring , complaining, etc. kill relationships. Antidote? Be praiseful!
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Murmurings amongst the village women, in their own dialect, revealed that they knew exactly how much money was in the cash box, and how much had been given as loan.
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Instinctively realizing that the pachydermic parade was headed for < i > his room, T. Haviland Hicks, Jr., rushed to the closet, murmuring, "Safety first!" as usual, and stowed away his banjo.
T. Haviland Hicks Senior
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During the lull afterwards he followed Carol's instructions to the letter, massaging Emily's shoulders, periodically dabbing her "perspiring" face and murmuring words of praise.
A Baby For Emily
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In the silence, I could hear Jessica murmuring to herself in her sleep.
THE EXECUTION
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There were political struggles, there was murmuring and discontent, but these disputes were well within the realm of normality.
The English Civil War: A People's History
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We may doubt, in spite of one or two charming and graceful passages, whether Rousseau was of a nature to have any feeling for the pathos of infancy, the bright blank eye, the eager unpurposed straining of the hand, the many turns and changes in murmurings that yet can tell us nothing.
Rousseau
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Of course I'm a professional controversialist but, once my copy is filed, I'm invariably the person at any gathering murmuring, ‘Oh, let's just agree to disagree!’
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On an unclouded summer night, if you lie on the moonlit beach and listen carefully, you can hear a symphony of nature mixed from the sound of waves raking the shingle and the murmuring wind.
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Despair itself, all these like helldogs lie beleaguering the soul of the poor dayworker, as of every man: but he bends himself with free valour against his task, and all these are stilled, all these shrink murmuring far off into their caves.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
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But he was puzzled very much by a strange murmuring noise, which followed them all the way.
The Water Babies
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He lay unmurmuring for all the tossing of the road over the long miles of the ride.
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It is Jesus, the unmurmuring sacrifice, who charges us to, ‘be patient.’
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There was one, a little dark-moustached Spaniard, who was listening and peering at him, with eyes black and pointed as a chincapin, and, murmuring softly in Spanish, turned and went away.
The Memories of Fifty Years
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The sounds of clinking glasses, shouting voices with the undertones of murmuring conversation, and the flickering of flame radiated from the mucky place.
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They could easily go to sleep to the murmuring oohs and aahs of connoisseurs and pedants.
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In the breath of the wind these slips, with all their notes varied like those of a harmonicon, gave forth a most melancholy murmuring.
Robur the Conqueror
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The stream is murmuring.
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Humber and on the borders of Yorkshire, the inhabitants make use of the same kind of symphonious harmony, but with less variety, singing in only two parts, one murmuring in the bass, the other warbling in the acute or treble.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
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The paramedic said he was still alive, moving his hand and murmuring something.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was a murmuring among the assembled liegemen, who parted to let the speaker through.
THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD
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The hushed reading rooms that feel cool even on a hot day, the murmuring quiet broken only by occasional whispering, and browsers lost in dark book stacks.
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Far above in the liquid darkness rolls the brilliant ball of the moon; beneath, in its light, lies the lake, in murmuring, troubled sleep; round about, the mountains, looking strange and blanched, seem to bare their heads and undrape their shoulders.
Stories by American Authors, Volume 5
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From time to time Rafiq would gently prise his hand free and stroke the boy's hair, murmuring some soft endearment.
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A sibilant murmuring briefly pervaded the room.
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`They keep putting us off with murmurings of entrepreneurs and quick-buck merchants -- yuppie treason, someone called it.
THE LAST RAVEN
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They could easily go to sleep to the murmuring oohs and aahs of connoisseurs and pedants.
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There have been dark murmurings that all this is an ego-trip.
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The smell of smoke and burning paper hits me first, and then I can hear Bren's pleased murmuring.
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Some in awful agony, some painlessly but all unmurmuringly - I with more luck than I deserved escaped with a few bullets through my helmet and haversack.
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Between rallies of intense project chatter, they paused to scrutinize me, murmuring and smirking like schoolboys at a junior high dance.
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During the week there had been murmurings of discontent from some quarters.
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Its long overdue, and there have been more than enough murmurings - among the vendors, analysts, and users - to justify such an activity.
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Sounds of socializing: laughter and murmuring drifted up from downstairs.
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The second guard spoke, his voice a bellow in order to be heard over the murmuring crowd.
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Admittedly, not everyone approved of the choice of act and there some murmurings of discontent and certainly a fair degree of surprise.
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He has gone deep inside himself, his voice a low murmuring grumble.
Times, Sunday Times
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The hushed reading rooms that feel cool even on a hot day, the murmuring quiet broken only by occasional whispering, and browsers lost in dark book stacks.
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As soon as Rolan nodded a yes, Mrs. Snow dashed into an adjoining room; the cries ceased and soft murmuring could be heard.
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Before the end of the year there was a lot of murmuring about the holiday shopping season being subpar.
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Murmuring broke out and crescendoed into pandemonium.
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There was some murmuring among the crowd during this long ceremony; for while Jeanne was alive the English soldiery dared attempt nothing fresh; and they only saw in her refusals to "abjure" an immediate reason for handing her over from the ecclesiastical justice to the secular, whose ways were swifter.
The Story of Rouen
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In fact, according to the ghostly murmurings of Mary Alice’s narration, there is a lot more depth to the term sabotage than those pesky Beastie Boys would have us believe.
Televisionista
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The director has over-dubbed the entire soundtrack and the dialogue is a studio-based whispery murmuring.
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Thus the good man altogether regained what he unmurmuringly surrendered for conscience’ sake.
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Despite that awkward start with its murmurings of discontent, accompanied by a sharp sense of Namibian humour about some of the recycled ministers, Namibians continued to have, and demonstrate, faith in their new President.
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The tales described how they could be heard ‘murmuring’ to one another, and how, parrot-fashion, they repeated back words spoken to them.
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Leisure, saunterings through the great balmy pine forest, luxurious explorations of shadowy glens and valleys, full of exquisite varieties of wild flowers; the warm, dry, delicious climate which invited him to take his dolce far niente under the boughs of murmuring trees, outstretched upon a couch of brown pineneedles, as elastic as it was odorous, all promised to bring back his poetical enthusiasm, and to set in genial motion the half frozen springs of his invention and fancy.
The Poems of Henry Timrod.
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I heard soft murmuring and Viktor spat into the basin, wiping away the blood from his lips.
