murmur

Example Sentences

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Yet they swallowed it with hardly a murmur.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026

In 2018, during another hospital visit, doctors detected a heart murmur.

From BBC • Dec. 13, 2025

It’s richer, more confident, the kind of topping that makes you stop mid-bite and murmur, half to yourself, why is this so good?

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2025

My son and my husband each murmur happy greetings in response, assuming I was talking to them—and Thomas, ever the diplomat, says nothing to correct the record.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025

“Jesus, but you’ve done it now. I’ve been in town two hours and already—I don’t care,” he said in reply to another murmur from Henry.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt