murmuring

Example Sentences

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"Like starlings murmuring in the sky," Miller said.

From Science Daily • Nov. 4, 2025

For many years, the broad convention has been that senior politicians who want to get near government keep their mouths diplomatically shut about the royals, aside from bland praise, or supportive quiet murmuring.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2025

In automatic mode, the car ambles down the boulevard, murmuring, simmering and keeping its immensity hidden from polite society.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

People kept stopping to talk to him, although they mostly made small murmuring noises, like the fake brook that runs through a suburban shopping center.

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2025

Hands cupped in front of their faces, heads bowed, murmuring a prayer: “Merciful God, forgive him his trespasses. Make wide his grave and light his path. Raise him unto the highest heavens.”

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed