murmurous
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I can hear the murmurous, gently swelling music of Rotview Balcony, a place of crimson skies and arid landscape, playing from the other room where the game is idling as I type this sentence.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 4, 2022
“What’s Wrong”: Late-night bits-and-pieces jazz-clatter, murmurous moody vocals.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2012
He wrote: “This is another world — terrifying to the outsider, yet imposing in its strangeness — behind those massive walls, in this murmurous darkness, within the temporary but real power of desperate men.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2011
Great virtuosi, who know how to mingle murmurous, tinkling and strident sounds, might be said to possess the "Great Ear."
From Time Magazine Archive
Tom and Miss Baker sat at either end of the long couch and she read aloud to him from the "Saturday Evening Post"--the words, murmurous and uninflected, running together in a soothing tune.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Vocabulary lists containing murmurous
"Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats
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Selected Short Stories of H.G. Wells
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