whispering
Example Sentences
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He leans closer and whispers, “Why are we whispering?”
From Literature
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She only ever talked to Nine, whispering to him in a voice so small, even Clare couldn’t catch the words.
From Literature
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The most extreme test phrases were almost total "nonsense", such as "Goetterdaemmerung's corpus haemorrhaged through cryptographic hash, eschaton pooling in existential void beneath fluorescent hum. Photons whispering prayers" -- which it rated highly.
From Barron's
Through the crack under the closet door, she said, she saw feet traipsing through the bedroom and heard men whispering in a foreign language.
From Los Angeles Times
The only sounds were the trees whispering in the night breeze, and the rasp of Wolf’s tongue as he licked the rawhide.
From Literature
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