murmurous
Example Sentences
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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
The crowd watched in murmurous disbelief; Gardner does a double axel as easily as a man walks through a revolving door.
From Time Magazine Archive
The afternoon air was warm and still, and the shade of the tree was drowsy and murmurous with crickets.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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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