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susurration

NOUN
  1. speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords
  2. the indistinct sound of people whispering
    a soft susurrus of conversation

How To Use susurration In A Sentence

  • But the dead only fed the living and each morning when the people woke it was to the scraping and beating of wings, the murmurous susurration, the awful cooing babble, and the sight, to those who still possessed intact windows, of the curious and gentle faces of those creatures. Excerpt: The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
  • That and the susurration of the river made Jason jeez. Inroads
  • The bones touched signs, and the signs whispered and murmured, in a low susurration that did not resolve into speech. Wildfire
  •  The clutter upstairs seemed rearranged in some maddeningly imperceptible way, and it, too, had its own noise, which alternated between a susurration and a high-pitched buzz. The Secret Animal
  • There are some items missing: surely, if susurrar is onomatopoeic Spanish for rustle, the English equivalents, susurration, susurrant, susurrous, and susurrus should be shown. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 3
  • But the dead only fed the living and each morning when the people woke it was to the scraping and beating of wings, the murmurous susurration, the awful cooing babble, and the sight, to those who still possessed intact windows, of the curious and gentle faces of those creatures. Excerpt: The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
  • Something beautiful but so far away-like the music of a faraway violin or the susurration of a distant wave.
  • Something beautiful but so far away-like the music of a faraway violin or the susurration of a distant wave.
  • It settled to the ground with a soft susurration like stirring leaves.
  • The susurration of multiple overlapping conversations reverberated off the walls. Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light
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