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 was when the Utopia-readers had been at the "Montgomery" rather more than half their time that the first bruit went abroad of the jollification that presently made memorable the eve of their departure.

From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver

A little French song speaks of this journeying angel: Il est tard, l'ange a pass�, Le jour a d�ja baiss�; Et l'on n'entend pour tout bruit Que le ruisseau qui s'enfuit.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn