How To Use susurrus In A Sentence
- And there came, like the dry susurrus of wind before thunder peals and lightning, a great rustle of excitement.
- Nonetheless, when the strings were together, we were treated to a wonderful tremolo in the cellos, beginning as a mere susurrus, then pouring forth into a majestic sound.
- Then they made it out against the susurrus of moving air, a plaintive whistle, a strain of melody. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
- a soft susurrus of conversation
- There was a continuing tinny susurrus of radio voices, but the police were moving, Paz observed, with an uncharacteristic hesitancy. TROPIC OF NIGHT
- Somewhere behind them there was a susurrus of rising bodies and speculation as someone moved along a pew. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
- As soon as my hose was blocked the comforting susurrus of piped air, my constant companion through this jaunt, died away. ANTI-ICE
- And there came, like the dry susurrus of wind before thunder peals and lightning, a great rustle of excitement.
- 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
- Salteris, dark robe billowing about his thin limbs, led them unerringly to it, across an unused state chamber with its ancient linenfold and gilded coffer and up the stairs to the attic; Joanna followed in a susurrus of silk taffeta. The Silent Tower