murmur
Example Sentences
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But for hoteliers checking their booking systems, the buzz is more of a murmur.
From BBC • May 15, 2026
Dozens of world leaders were discussing how to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in a videoconference on Friday when a murmur went up among the presidents and prime ministers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Yet they swallowed it with hardly a murmur.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026
The tennis failed to captivate as the seats on Arthur Ashe Stadium started to fill out, with a constant murmur of chatter acting as a soundtrack to the action.
From BBC • Sep. 3, 2025
I hardly know whether I had slept or not after this musing; at any rate, I started wide awake on hearing a vague murmur, peculiar and lugubrious, which sounded, I thought, just above me.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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