susurrus

Example Sentences

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Inside the packed dining room, which seats 87, you can always hear the comforting susurrus of meat cooking over wood fire.

From New York Times

Nothing will ever really replicate that: the movement of the paper, the susurrus of the pages, and the friction as you turn the page are all impossible to achieve digitally.

From The Verge

Dread creeps in; the ear instinctively fastens on anything, whether fire-hiss or bird call or susurrus of leaves, that will save it from this unknown emptiness.

From Economist

On the one hand, the waning of one's charms, vigour and fertility; on the other liver-spotted paw, the incessant susurrus of sand through Father Time's hourglass.

From BBC

The squelching sounds of pulverized anatomies punctuate a susurrus of Chthonic roars and growls as you shoot then “glory kill” enemies by literally tearing their head and limbs off.

From Time