bruit

Example Sentences

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Exceptions: Your doctor hears a swishing sound, called a bruit, with a stethoscope, or you have had a stroke or mini-stroke.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2009

And in the bruit of a large city, if one voice cries out above the turmoil, will not a babel of shouts rise from competitors ?

From Time Magazine Archive

Adding to the bruit of Clemens' "discov ery" was the inclusion in the Carnegie International last fortnight of his largest group painting, Water Music, which is an inept substitute for a snapshot.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the other hand, no trumpet is thought loud enough to bruit about a suspicion that Man may be a creature of yet remoter date.

From Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford by Burgon, John William

Of the royal edicts guaranteeing the Protestants, the last author remarks that "ils firent plus de bruit que de fruit."

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Baird, Henry Martyn