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
It can serve no good purpose to bruit it abroad.
From A Cabinet Secret by Boothby, Guy Newell
Un bonheur inconnu l'envahissait; pour célébrer sa victoire et sa liberté, il remplit bientôt toute la forêt du bruit de ses chants.
From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I by Barrington, Mrs. Russell
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