murmur

Example Sentences

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Yet they swallowed it with hardly a murmur.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026

The first replay showed a murmur of a noise on the technology and Smith immediately started to walk from the field.

From BBC • Nov. 22, 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

Like all of us, she was straining to listen, to make some sense out of the murmur of voices we could all hear on the other side of that door.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo