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
For ten moist, murmurous Indian nights a British captain sat behind a bush with an elephant gun on his knees, waiting for Satan.
From Time Magazine Archive
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They arrived at twilight and as we strolled out among the sparkling hundreds Daisy's voice was playing murmurous tricks in her throat.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.